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The Sudanese government signs a temporary cease-fire with Sudan’s main rebel group, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA
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The SA rugby team beats Uruguay 39-3 in a World Cup match in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Anglo American announces that it is transferring its main listing to the London Stock Exchange.
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Rebels, backed by foreign troops, enter Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo, ending President Pascal Lissouba’s four-month str
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The SA rugby team beats Argentina 46-26 in Johannesburg.
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against Mauritius in a home game.
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Interim constitution is approved by nineteen of the twenty-one parties participating in the Multi-Party Talks.
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Multilateral agreement between the governments of South Africa and Mozambique and the UNHCR for the voluntary repatriation of M
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It is announced that President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela are awarded the Nobel Peace Pr
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Conservative Party politician Clive Derby-Lewis and Polish immigrant Janusz Walus are sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to de
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Political assassination: Ben Badi, Nowinile Badi and granddaughter Vuyokazi Badi (11), are killed at home.
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Political assassination: Elby Ngece, ANC member, is killed at home in Alice, Eastern Cape.
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The Separate Amenities Act racially segregating public facilities is repealed by 105 votes to 38 with one abstention in the Hou
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Seven African National Congress members receive a tumultuous welcome in Soweto following their release after twenty-six years’
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President P.W. Botha meets Ivory Coast’s President Felix Houphouet-Boigny.
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Five miners die in a hoisting accident on Rustenburg Platinum Mines, bringing to fifteen the death toll in mining accidents dur
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Thomas Sankara, head of the Military Council of the Revolution in Burkina Faso, is assassinated in a military coup and replaced
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Two US surveillance planes arrive over Egyptian airspace to demonstrate increased US support for Egyptian and Sudanese security
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The results of the Transkei general elections are announced. The ruling Transkei National Independence Party (TNIP) wins sixty-
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The United Nations Secretary-General accepts the credentials of the South African delegation led by Foreign Minister Pik Botha
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A Second General Law Amendment Bill is introduced by the minister of justice, J.T. Kruger, involving the repeal of the ‘Masters
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Somalia’s President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke is assassinated.
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The Netherlands Permanent Representative at the United Nations announces that his government has banned the export and transit
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Nelson Mandela’s treason trial starts in the Old Synagogue in Pretoria. He was captured near Howick on 5 August 1962.
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Amnesty International, human rights organisation that consistently condemned apartheid in SA, is founded in London.
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President Habib Ali Bourguiba, of Tunisia, breaks relations with the United Arab Republic (UAR).
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Foreign Minister Eric Louw tells the Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference that South Africa is not prepared to submit to an
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The conference of African leaders, meeting in Bloemfontein, firmly rejects the Tomlinson Report on the development of the Afric
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A Dakota air-liner, Paardeberg, crashes into Ingeli Mountain near Kokstad, Transkei, causing the first serious air-line crash i
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