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Troops allied with the government of Congo capture the strategic port town of Matadi from rebel forces trying to oust President
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The Nile River floods its banks in Sudan, leaving more than 160 00 people homeless.
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The government announces that units from the army and air force, as well as extra police, will be stationed in Johannesburg in
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Bantu Holomisa is expelled from the ANC after a disciplinary hearing.
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Five Ethiopian hijackers surrender peacefully at a military airport outside of Rome.
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The SA government grants temporary reprieve to Chris Hani, chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
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Residents of Peelton receive an undertaking in the Ciskei Supreme Court, Bisho, that no unlawful arrest or harassment by police
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SA troops are withdrawn from Angola.
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The government withdraws its plan to place a quota limit on the admission of Black students to White universities, but remains
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Dr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt by the Pretoria Supreme Court.
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About 600 students from five secondary schools march to Bontheuwel. On their way they are confronted by four riot squad vans. T
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Maluzi Knowledge Nkanyedzi Gigaba, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004 and form
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The government announces programmes for expanded development and augmented political powers for the Ovambo and Kavango homeland
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Burundi, Rwanda and Zaire sign a mutual security pact.
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The Prime Minister announces, in a statement before the Supreme Court in Cape Town, that Dr. Abrahams will be returned to Bechu
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All-African Federal Executive Council is formed in Nigeria.
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Six South-West Africans, all members of the National Party, are elected to the South African Parliament.
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Dean Tshenuwani Simon Farisane, pastor, co-translator of the Venda Bible, ANC politician and current MEC for Transport, Limpopo
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Rashid Ahmed Hassen Bhikha, chairman of BE-Tabs Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd, the largest privately owned manufacturer of generic
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Derek Lyle Keys, SA minister of finance from 1992Oct. 1994, is born in Johannesburg.
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Ernest Methuen Mancoba, SA born artist who left for Paris to further his studies in 1938 and never returned to SA, is born in B
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Ben Viljoen releases about 2 000 British prisoners of war from the camp at Nooitgedacht.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under General French occupies Waterval-Boven and Waterval-Onder in eastern Transvaal.
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Anglo-German secret agreement on future of African territories of Portugal, whereby Britain is to obtain lease of Delagoa Bay a
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John August Ion Agar-Hamilton, historian and Anglican priest of Scottish descent, is born in Cairo, Egypt and arrived with his
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The Rosebud, 341 Ton, en route from Calcutta to London, is stranded at Dias Beach, Mossel Bay.
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The London Times, a British newspaper based in London, publishes an article paying tribute to King Sekhukhune of the Marota Emp
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Nicolaas Pieter Johannes van Rensburg (”Siener”, Seer) is born in Western Transvaal. Many people implicitly believe in his visi
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Ninety people are reported killed or missing when a ferry capsizes on a river in Taraba, Nigeria.
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