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Shaken Roots Postcard
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International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement by Robert Jackson Alexander
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A Life’s Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala by Phyllis Ntantala
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The Individual, Auto/biography and History in South Africa by Ciraj Shahid Rassool
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The 75th anniversary celebration of the Voortrekkers (an Afrikaans youth organisation) ends at the Voortrekker Monument.
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Mbekiattend celebrations at Durban’s Kingsmead Cricket Stadium to commemorat
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The United Nations begins the deployment in Liberia of its biggest peacekeeping mission.
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President Paul Kagame’s Rwandan Patriotic Front party wins a majority in the parliamentary elections. It is the nation’s first
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Up to this date the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights has awarded land to 115 194 beneficiaries and financial compensati
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President Thabo Mbeki’s state visit (1-3 October) to Nigeria starts.
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SA’s first commercial service television station depending solely on advertising, e.tv, starts broadcasting.
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Inkatha agrees to return to the Constitutional Assembly, after an eighteen-month absence, but withdraws again on 7 October 1996
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A US federal jury finds Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others guilty of plotting to blow up the World Trade
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SA exchanges notes with Swaziland on the establishment of diplomatic relations.
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Births and Deaths Registration Act No 51 commences.
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Value added Tax (VAT) replaces general sales tax.
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Telkom South Africa Limited officially comes into being and is incorporated as a company with the State as sole shareholder.
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Aliens Control Act No 96, replacing all previous legislation regarding foreigners entering, leaving or being resident in the co
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Chief Sabata Dalindyebo is reburied in the Transkei in a funeral attended by 40 000 people. He died in self-imposed exile in Za
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The South African Police (SAP) take over control of the municipal police. The aim is to render a better service to the communit
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President F.W. de Klerk vehemently denies any direct or indirect talks between the African National Congress (ANC) leaders and
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Coloured schools are re-opened as a result of parents and students having staged a re-occupation of the schools, closed since 6
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A report compiled by the Detainees’ Parents Support Committee provides detailed evidence of systematic torture as an integral f
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Civilian rule is restored in Nigeria.
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Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act No 94 commences, permitting certain Blacks, excluded under the 1953 Act, to join unions.
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Labour Relations Act, Labour Act No 14 setting out further requirements for labour in Transkei and Wage Act No 15, providing fo
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France confirms that it is selling two new combat submarines to South Africa, to help SA to protect the oil route round the Cap
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Dozens are crushed in crowded Cairo streets as millions of Egyptians mourn the death of President Abdel Nasser.
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Nigeria, which gained independence on October 1, 1960, becomes an independent republic within the Commonwealth.
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