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Scores of people are believed injured when police fire teargas into a crowd in Soweto during a march to the Soweto City Council
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Nine policemen are to be charged with murder after the findings of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Sebokeng shooti
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The former Prime Minister and President, John Vorster, re-emerges into public life with a speech in Bloemfontein in which he qu
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Basil D’Oliviera, English cricket player who was denied entry into SA because he was a Coloured, is born in Cape Town.
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The National Security Act No 13 comes into effect in SA. Providing for detention without trial, banning of individuals and ou
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Thirty passengers are injured and admitted to various hospitals when a taxi crashes into the back of another taxi on William Ni
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The Liquor Laws Amendment Bill, under which Africans are for the first time allowed to buy liquor freely, comes into effect.
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The chauffeur of Chief Mhlabunzima, who was a witness at the inquest into the Chief’s death, is killed in the Natal Midlands.
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The Liquor Laws Amendment Bill, under which Africans are for the first time allowed to buy liquor freely, comes into effect.
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During a three-day trip to Cuba, Mugabe says in Havana the amendments he signed into law on 9 September, marked "the liber
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Thousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Wa
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An inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale, who had died in custody in Johannesburg Security Police headquarters in August 1982
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President Nelson Mandela says that in order to promote national unity he was willing to bring into government those who remain
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A squadron of Col. E.C. Bethune, under Capt. Geoff, runs into a well-placed ambush under Com. Blignaut at Sch
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WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack
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SA rugby is plunged into a crisis because Louis Luyt refuses to resign as president of the South African Rugby Football Union.
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Concluding its investigation into the crash in the mountains near George in the Western Cape in which former SA cricket captain
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres
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Derrick and Mavis Majola, ANC members, are shot dead in Mooi River, Natal, by four armed men bursting into their home.
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Derrick and Mavis Majola, ANC members, are shot dead in Mooi River, Natal, by four armed men bursting into their home.
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Algerian Ahmed Ressam is convicted of terrorism for bringing a car loaded with explosives into the United States as part of an
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Zaire falls further into chaos when parliament and the new prime minister declare each other unconstitutional on the eve of pea
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The Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), Act 1 of 1999, comes into effect. It requires all State departments to adhere to norm
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The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote
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In the worst bus accident in SA history, a school bus with seventy-six learners of Hoërskool Vorentoe plunges into the Westden
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General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs
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Ryan Byisile Mapisa of Duncan Village disappears after being dragged into a car at his home by five men who identify themselves
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The House of Assembly approves, by eighty-six votes to forty-three, a motion to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into and
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