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Thousands of people gather in Kibera, Nairobi, Africa’s biggest informal settlement, for the global celebration of World Habita
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All Africa Games open in Abuja.
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Congo President Laurent Kabila orders a $20 million, 267-carat diamond returned to local businessman, Alphonse Ngoyi Kasanji, w
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President Thabo Mbeki pays a working visit to Senegal.
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Sir de Villiers Graaff (86), former leader of the United Party, dies.
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The death toll reaches at least 100 in Algeria after a two-day surge of massacres attributed to the Armed Islamic Group.
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Shahid Afridi, sixteen-year-old soccer player of Pakistan, scores the fastest one hundred in one day cricket from just 37 balls
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Andre George Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player and lawyer who was awarded the accolade, ‘Playmaker of the Decade’ by Kick Off for
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Identification Amendment Act No 47, amending the 1986 Identification Act so as to repeal certain obsolete provisions, and order
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US President Bill Clinton welcomes South African President Nelson Mandela to the White House.
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The European Community lifts all trade sanctions against South Africa.
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The Mozambique government and RENAMO rebel leaders sign an historic peace accord, and a cease-fire to end the sixteen-year civi
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The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty, to which SA is a party, is signed in Madrid.
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Political assassination: Selby Ngedane, PAC member, is gunned down outside his home in Umtata.
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Natal Supreme Court judge Justice J. Didcott attacks the government for usurping the powers of the judiciary.
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CUSA/ZACTU merger to form NACTU.
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Oliver Kgadime (Phukubjane) Matsepe, Northern Sotho novelist and poet and twice awarded the S.E. Mqhayi Prize by the Suid-Afrik
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The US calls on Egypt and Israel to work out an interim agreement on reopening the Suez Canal as the first step toward resolvin
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Chief Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, warns that violent confrontation between Blacks and Whites will be an inevita
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Lesotho, formerly the British colony of Basutoland, achieves its independence as the Kingdom of Lesotho and becomes a member of
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Three coaches of a commuter train derail in South Africa killing eighty-one.
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Gambia achieves full internal self-government.
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Separate elections for the four Cape Coloured representative seats are held. They are won by Independents with the United Party
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Ronny Belcher, SA actor and singer, is born.
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Jacob Hendrik (Henk) Pierneef, SA landscape painter, dies in Pretoria at the age of 71.
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The UN consents to a US-backed invasion of North Korea. A squadron of the SA Air Force formed part of the United Nations forces
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps, where the Nazi leader seeks Italy’s help in fighting the Br
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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 inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand is celebrated. The University College, Johannesburg, attained full univ
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