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Minister of National Education Louis Pienaar announces that the government will abolish restrictions on the number of Black stu

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Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de

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Coal miners and industrial and government representatives from seventeen countries, attending an international labour organisat

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A pickup truck rigged with explosives rips through a crowded vegetable market in Tripoli, Libya, killing fifty-four people and

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The Natal Supreme Court declares the ban on campaigns for the release of detainees invalid. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria

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Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee

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The White-led South African government commits itself to scrapping dozens of laws restricting movements of Blacks.

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The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a &quot;mon

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Dr Abraham J. van der Merwe (81), chairman of the Van Riebeeck fête committee in 1952, dies.

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Zimbabwe African National Union leader Robert Mugabe announces that Rhodesia’s guerrilla groups, Zanu and Zapu (the Zimbabwe Af

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UN officials and various missionaries are expelled from Ethiopia.

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Rhodesia’s first Black cabinet ministers are sworn into office. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria News, 23 April.

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The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merge to form the United Methodist Church.

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Ignatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell (56), SA poet and writer, is killed in a car accident in Portugal

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Aboubakar Jakoet, accountant and director, finance, Pick ‘n Pay Retail division since 1995, is born.

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A group of academics founds the ‘Afrikaans-Duitse Kultuurunie’ (Afrikaans-Deutsche Kultur-Gemeinschaft) in Pretoria.

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Shirley Temple Black, American child actress who became ambassador in Ghana, is born.

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Rebel leader Abdel Krim’s troops enter French Morocco.

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Johannes Stephanus (Jan) Marais, founder of Trust Bank, is born in Fraserburg, OFS.

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The Director of Education in the Transvaal, Dr John Adamson, opens the Potchefstroom Teachers’ College with 131 students.

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Afrikaans receives first official recognition when C.J. Langenhoven addresses the English caucus of the Cape Provincial Council

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French, Algerian, and Senegalese troops are to be sent to help put down the tribesmen revolt in Morocco. However, Germany has p

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Bram Fischer, son of a Judge President of the Orange Free State, grandson of a Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony, lawye

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An Algerian Office is created within the French Ministry of the Interior.

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Muhammed Abdalah Hassan (the ‘Mad Mullah’) suffers heavy losses in further encounters with British forces.

Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV

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Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV

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Die Huisgenoot, oldest still existing Afrikaans magazine, appears ten months after Die Burger

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The United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa

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Metrorail says more than 400 commuters have been arrested in Pretoria as part of an operation to bring order back to the train