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Chief warlord Charles Taylor and other key militia leaders are installed in a new ruling council in Liberia.
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Chief warlord Charles Taylor and other key militia leaders are installed in a new ruling council in Liberia.
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Casual Day. Casual Day, started in 1995, is a fundraising project benefiting persons with disabilities. Everybody is called upo
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Forty-four Blacks on the East Rand die on this and the following night in attacks on townships from hostels.
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Forty-four Blacks on the East Rand die on this and the following night in attacks on townships from hostels.
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Enforcement of Foreign Civil Judgements Decree No 13 commences.
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The report of the inquiry led by Justice Richard Goldstone into the shooting by the police of eighteen demonstrators in the tow
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The report of the inquiry led by Justice Richard Goldstone into the shooting by the police of eighteen demonstrators in the tow
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Mr Zwelinzima Vavi, regional secretary of COSATU’s Western Transvaal region is arrested and held in solitary confinement.
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A Defiance Campaign, similar to the 1952 Defiance Campaign, is launched by the United Democratic Fund (UDF) against banning, re
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A Defiance Campaign, similar to the 1952 Defiance Campaign, is launched by the United Democratic Fund (UDF) against banning, re
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Nelson Mandela is discharged from Cape Town’s Tygerberg hospital where he was treated for tuberculosis and transferred to a pri
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The Labour Relations Amendment Act, amending the Labour Relations Act of 1956, comes into force. The Black trade union movement
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Two Black men are hanged in Pretoria, SA, for a multiple killing committed during outbreak of anti-apartheid violence.
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Labour Party leader Allan Hendrickse warns President P.W. Botha: “If you want to negotiate with us, the Group Areas Act must go
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QwaQwa: Labour Regulations Repeal Act No 7 commences.
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The Southern African Development Bank, financed primarily by South Africa, is formally established with headquarters in Midrand
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A bloodless coup under General André Kolingba ousts President David Dacko of the Central African Republic.
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Dr Andries P. Treurnicht, Minister of Public Works, Statistics and Tourism, is unanimously re-elected as the National Party’s l
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Col. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya after a coup d’état, deposing King Idris and exiling him to Egypt.
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Labour Laws Amendment Act No 4, amending South African labour laws for Transkei, commences.
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The new Air Force Memorial on Bays Hill, south of Pretoria, is inaugurated by State President C.R. Swart and attended by about
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The Department of Indian Affairs is established.
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The SA rugby team loses 5-11 against New Zealand in Auckland and also loses the series 1-3.
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Nakedi Mathews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga and Afrikaans poet, is born in Mbombela township, Nelspruit.
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Germany invades Poland, starting World War 2.
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The SA rugby team loses the match in Newlands 5-13 against New Zealand, but shares the series 2-2.
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Black (Native) Administration Act of 1927 comes into effect. This Act in effect gave the state the power to make laws in all Af
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Elizabeth Roos establishes the ACVV (Afrikaanse Christelike Vrouevereniging) in Cape Town as the Zuid-Afrikaansche Christelijke
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