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President Samora Machel of Mozambique closes his frontier with Rhodesia, seizes all Rhodesian assets in the country and places
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SA signs multilateral treaty on international trade in endangered species of wild flora and fauna.
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Todd Tozama Matshikiza, SA musician, composer and writer, dies in Lusaka, Zambia. He composed the music and wrote some of the l
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The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) delegation meets Mahatma Gandhi in Poona.
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Saambou (Permanente) Bouvereniging, a landmark in the economic history of the Afrikaner, is founded.
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A ‘timeless’ cricket test match (the only one ever) between SA and England starts in Durban and continues until the 14th. E
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Lichtenburg takes place. The British soldiers move their horses into the Dutch Reformed Church
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Jonathan Ayliff resigns because of ill health as minister of colonial affairs from the cabinet of Thomas Upington, but plays an
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The Rev. Evert Jean Jacques van der Horst, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and member of parliament for Wolmaransstad, is
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Bethlehem in the Orange Free State is established.
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John Brebier, Presbyterian minister and a founder of the educational system in the Orange Free State, is born in Spurriemuir in
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Dirkie Uys (Dirk Cornelis), child hero and son of the Voortrekker leader Piet Uys, is born in the district of Swellendam, CC.
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Foster Care Parents Day.
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Madi Phala, artist, designer, educator and original herd-boy, was fatally stabbed near his home in Langa, Cape Town.
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Transport Minister Jeff Radebe, South Africa’s new acting Health Minister opens the new Pretoria Academic Hospital.
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At least fifty Congolese militiamen are killed by South African and Pakistani United Nations peacekeeping troops in a bloody gu
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A member of the Zulu royal household, Prince Thulani Zulu, is shot dead in Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
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French President Jacques Chirac visits Algeria in an effort to improve relations between the two countries. It is the first off
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Eight foreigners die in a shoot-out in a Ugandan game reserve as soldiers try to free fifteen tourists who were kidnapped by Rw
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National Police Commissioner George Fivaz announces plans to restructure the South African Police Service (SAPS) and later seek
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Thulane Sugarboy Malinga, SA super middleweight champion, wins the World Boxing Council (WBC) title.
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The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) agrees to participate in the 1994 elections.
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A gangway collapses when passengers board a ferry on the Congo River, drowning at least 147 in the Republic of Congo.
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The African National Congress (ANC) elects Nelson Mandela as Deputy President of the organisation. It also announces its decisi
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The Indicator Project, based at the University of Natal, says more than 4000 people have died in political conflict since Septe
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo becomes the first South African group to win a Grammy award. The group wins the best traditional folk a
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The Sowetan reports that Amos Boshomane, a shop steward of the Steel, Engineering and Allied Workers’ Union of South Africa, wa
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The US government approves a screening test for Aids that detects antibodies to the virus, allowing possibly contaminated blood
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Dr. Andries Treurnicht resigns as Minister of State Administration and of Statistics and announces the formation of the Conserv
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