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The Botswana police discover the bodies of eighteen people who had suffocated in the back of a truck driving from Zimbabwe to S
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SA signs agreement on co-operation with the Russian Federation.
EventNigerian author Ben Okri wins the Booker Prize for his novel The Famished Road
Ben Okri is a Nigerian author born in Minna, Western Nigeria. He received critical acclaim after the publishing of his first novel Flowers and Shadows. His…
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Forty-nine Commonwealth nations agree to enact further sanctions against SA if further reforms are not taken within six months.
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General Motors becomes the fourth big US business to pull out of South Africa. It joins Honeywell, IBM and Warner. It is believ
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The Minister of Law and Order rejects conditions set on 18 October 1984 by the three remaining fugitives in the British Consula
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George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, dies in Cape Town.
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Schalk J. Botha (73), SA economist, dies in Pretoria.
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Teachers and pupils are arrested at the Morris lsaacson High School in Soweto.
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Thabo Mooki, SA football player who was the first winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 96/97, is born in Moletsane,
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Amanda Coetzer, SA tennis star and winner of several Sportswoman of the Year Awards, is born in Hoopstad, OFS.
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SA signs treaty with Greece concerning the graves of members of the armed forces of the Commonwealth in Greek territory.
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South African Black leader Nelson Mandela appears in court in Johannesburg and pleads not guilty. Nelson Mandela, in his Long W
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During the Pretoria centenary M.W. Pretorius, grandson of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius and great-grandson of Voortrekker leader A
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Dr Neville Edward Alexander, co-founder with Kenneth Alexander of the National Liberation Front, which aim was to bring togethe
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WWI: At the start of the 1914-Rebellion (or “Armed protest” as it was called), it is decided in Koppies, OFS, that Gen. C.R. de
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Prof. Paul Friedrich Detlev Weiss, professor in theology and Afrikaans cultural leader, is born in Standerton, Tvl.
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André Huguenet, stage-name of Gerhardus Petrus Borstlap, SA actor, producer and author, is born in Bloemfontein.
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Louise (Lulu) Latsky, SA author of children’s books and the first woman to be awarded a doctorate at the University of Stellenb
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James Henry Bowker (78), SA soldier during the frontier wars and expedition leader to Basutoland, dies in Durban.
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Spain declares war on the Moors in Morocco.
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Gen. Jacobus Hercules (Koos) de la Rey, also known as ‘The Lion of Western Transvaal’ because of his brave leadership during th
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Abraham Gabbema, fiscal at the Cape, calls the front rock of the mountain near the Great Berg River, wet with dew and glitterin
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Veteran French war journalist Jean Helene is shot dead in cold blood in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast by a police officer.
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Two British aid workers are shot dead in Somaliland.
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Vanessa Brereton, former “human rights” lawyer, admits that she was agent RS 452 and The Star publishes the first story of her
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The UN reports that over 200,000 Hutu refugees are fleeing into the hills to escape the conflict between the Zaire military and
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Swedish Foreign Minister, on a visit to Cape Town, reveals that her government gave about $400m in humanitarian assistance to o
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South African Security agent Craig Williamson, on his return to South Africa, denies involvement in the assassination of Prime
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