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Widespread violence and intimidation in 1996 Kwazulu-Natal

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Widespread violence and intimidation in 1996 Kwazulu-Natal

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Mokdad Sifi is appointed as prime minister of Algeria.

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Angolan Government agrees to begin peace talks with rebel group Unita in Portugal.

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President F.W. de Klerk and two senior ministers receive a delegation representing the Anglican, Congregational, Lutheran, Meth

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Peter Nchabeleng (59), president of Northern Transvaal UDF, dies in police custody in Schoonoord

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Stephen Eyssen (90), SA baritone and composer, dies.

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Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe. He is officially ina

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The Minister of Manpower Utilisation announces the removal of the ban on the employment of skilled Black construction workers i

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Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala.

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Fifty Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members arrested by Swaziland government orders are to be expelled from Swaziland. They are

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Forty members are elected to Lebowa’s Legislative Assembly, the remaining sixty seats being allocated to nominated chiefs. Cedr

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Prime Minister B.J. Vorster takes the first cautious step in the direction of a new sport policy by announcing in the House of

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Nigeria imposes a trade boycott on South Africa.

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Myrna Blumberg, correspondent for the New York Post and the London Daily Herald in SA, is detained and restricted.

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French authorities dissolve The Algerian Assembly.

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F.W. de Klerk, later president of SA, marries his first wife, Marike Willemse.

Zamokwakhe (Samuel) Gumede, SA sculptor, is born in Langkloof, Bergville, Natal.

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Zamokwakhe (Samuel) Gumede, SA sculptor, is born in Langkloof, Bergville, Natal.

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General China, the operation undertaken by British authorities against the Mau Mau in Kenya, ends in failure.

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Mohandas Gandhi leads a batch of Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested but members of his batch are a

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Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker meet Gandhi in Delhi.

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End of a four day meeting between Hitler and Mussolini over failure to hold North Africa.

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Captain C.D. Barnard begins a record-breaking flight from London to Cape Town.

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Mussolini is greeted with royal honours when he lands in Africa.

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Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born.

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Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed. Spanning the gorge of the Zambezi River, the brid

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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Kemp, in charge of the Lemmer, Du Toit, Liebenberg, Celliers, and Potgieter commandos (approximately

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Uganda is declared a British protectorate.

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Britain separates Gambia from Sierra Leone.

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Zulu warriors ambush Petrus Lafras (Piet) Uys and his men at Italeni. Uys, his son Dirkie and seven of his followers are ki

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George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se