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The first church building in Stellenbosch, erected at request of Governor Simon van der Stel, is consecrated.
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Abraham, son of Jan van Riebeeck, is born. He is the second White baby to be born in the fort De Goede Hoop at the Cape.
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Petra Muller, South African poet, receives the Hertzog Prize for Afrikaans literature.
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Tryna du Toit (95), Afrikaans novelist, dies in Pretoria.
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An Egyptian passenger cruiser carrying more than 1 300 Muslim pilgrims collides with a cargo ship at the Suez Canal’s sout
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Ernie Els clinches a record sixth World Match Play title with a 2&1 victory over Lee Westwood at Wentworth.Els celebrates h
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Somali peace talks in Kenya stall because of allegations over the partisan role of mediators.
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The Patriotic Movement of Ivory Coast, a newly formed rebel group that launched a violent uprising in September, signs a truce
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A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze.
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Former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda is charged by the UN International Criminal Tribunal with genocide and crimes again
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President Mandela vows ‘to leave no stone unturned’ in finding the truth behind the air crash ten years before that killed Moza
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In Angola’s first multi-party election, the MPLA wins 53.74% of the vote for the 233-seat parliament, and Unita 34.10%. Unita a
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An earth tremor measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale kills three miners and injures two others at the Western Deep Levels gold mi
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Three Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) members from Richards Bay are arrested in connection with an attack the previous week
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A 103-nation conference in Lausanne votes for a complete global ban of the ivory trade.
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Attempted military coup in Guinea-Bissau.
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The United Nations Security Council, by fourteen votes to none, with the United States abstaining, passes a resolution reiterat
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SA forces attack an apartment block in Maputo, Mozambique, close to President Samora Machel’s suburban residence, injuring five
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha concludes a five-day state visit to Taiwan, during which he and his twenty-member delegation meet Tai
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West German commandos storm a hijacked Lufthansa jetliner in Mogadishu, Somalia, freeing all 86 hostages. Three Palestinian h
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Soweto flares into violence again. An estimated £75,000 damage is caused. Incidents are also reported from Cape Town, Pretoria
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Moroccans join King Hassan II in a peace march into Spanish Sahara.
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Egyptian and Israeli forces clash in the Sinai desert in fierce fights.
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Elections end in Gazankulu. Professor Hudson Ntsanwisi is unanimously re-elected leader of the Gazankulu Legislative Assembly.
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Theodore Ernest (Ernie) Els, SA champion golfer, is born in Kempton Park, East Rand.
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SA signs multilateral treaty on the conservation of Atlantic tunas (with final act and resolution adopted by the conference of
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The Rev. Dr. Arthur William Blaxall, an Anglican clergyman, is convicted on charges of aiding the activities of the Pan-African
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Authorities crack down on Algerians demonstrating for independence in Paris. Historians estimate at least 200 were killed.
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Sisulu is arrested on a charge that he does not own a reference book. He is confined to his house for five years.
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