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Robert McBride, ANC member who planted a bomb in Magoo’s Bar, Durban, and later became Ekurhuleni metro police chief, is born i
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Thomas Joseph (Tom) Mboya, likely successor to Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, is assassinated in Nairobi. He was born in Kenya
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King Moshesh (Moshoeshoe, Msheshwe) of the Basuto beats off an attack by Com. Louw Wepener of the Orange Free State.
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Boy Chonco, working for Flora Mkhize, widow of Sipho Mkhize, is shot dead in Umbumbulu, Natal, while driving his car.
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Willem Eduard Bok, government commissioner and sub-editor of De Volksstem is born in the Netherlands. Boksburg was later na
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The SAPS becomes the first police force in Africa to launch a missing children website (missingkids.com.za), with 800 cases.
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Terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at the public Centennial Olympic Park, killing two people and injur
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A powerful bomb, planted by Frederick John Harris, explodes in the Johannesburg station. One woman is killed and twenty-two (so
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At least eight-eight people are killed, including nine foreign tourists, in a string of bomb attacks that rocked the Egyptian R
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Zambian postal workers refuse to sort mail from South Africa following a bomb explosion the previous week in which two postal w
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The Egyptians and Syrians launch surprise attacks on Israel on Yom Kippur day, catching Israel almost totally by surprise and s
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Resolution on the War. Adopted by the National Executive Committees of the AAC and the ANC, July 7,1940
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TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph
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Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician, Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, is bor
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South Africa is blamed for a massive bomb blast in Harare in which several people are injured. South Africa denies responsibili
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South Africa is blamed for a massive bomb blast in Harare in which several people are injured. South Africa denies responsibili
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Dalene Matthee, laurelled Afrikaans writer, is born in Riversdal, CP. Her best-known book, Kringe in ‘n bos (Circles in a for
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Zambian postal workers refuse to sort mail from South Africa following a bomb explosion the previous week in which two postal w
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The Egyptians and Syrians launch surprise attacks on Israel on Yom Kippur day, catching Israel almost totally by surprise and s
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The Citizen reports there were two bomb blasts in Umtata, Transkei, in September. The first was when police detonated a limpet
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The AU is planning to send "several thousand" more troops to Sudan’s troubled Darfur region. http://www.news24.com
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The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, is damaged by a bomb blast and nineteen people are inj
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SA wins the 2004 Tri-Nations rugby championship by beating Australia 23-19 in Durban. http://www.news24.com
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J.F. (Tom) Naudé (80), member of cabinet and acting SA state president in 1967 and 1968, dies in Cape Town.
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A serious peacetime air force accident takes place when a 20-lb bomb falls from a military DH9 bomber, which was damaged during
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Two bomb blasts in central Pretoria injure three women. The bombs were placed under a car outside a police housing project. htt
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Two Libyan suspects are charged officially in Kamp Zest, the Netherlands, of causing the bomb explosion on board a Boeing 747 t
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The Rev. T.C. (oom Essie) Esterhuysen, missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Transvaal, is born in C
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An ANC delegation, led by Deputy President Mbeki, makes the party’s second major submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Com
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