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The Women’s Peace Train, launched in Kampala on 15 August, leaves the city on its way to Johannesburg to be in time for the Wor
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Donald Woods (67), former editor of the Daily Despatch of East London and well-known activist, who escaped with his family from
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against Congo in a home game.
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France takes a tough position on African immigrants, saying those who arrive illegally including 10 on the 43rd day of a hunger
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe addresses the South African Parliament.
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SA signs bilateral air transport agreement with the Czech Republic.
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South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay which now falls under the jurisdiction of Namibia.
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-4 against Zimbabwe in an away match.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the South African Government initialled a Memorandum of Understan
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Men hack their way through a train station in Soweto, killing at least nine people.
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President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria as violence spread to Soweto.
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Thousands of workers respond to a five-day stay-away call made by students protesting against alleged ritual killings in Venda.
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George Thembalake (15) dies in hospital after arrested at a student gathering in King William’s Town.
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Sonnyboy Mokoena (24) is found hanged in his cell in Pilgrim’s Rest.
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In response to President Botha’s hardline speech at the party’s Natal congress, the president of the ANC, Oliver Tambo, reaffir
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Prof. Stephanus Andrew Louw, authority on language geography, dies in Pretoria.
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The Minister of Justice asks for an extension of emergency powers granted to one area troubled by faction fighting to the entir
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The Chief Minister of Ovamboland, Filemon Elifas (43), is shot and killed near Ondangwa, South West Africa (Namibia).
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James Dalton, Springbok hooker from Gauteng, is born.
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Morocco’s King Hassan II escapes unhurt when an airliner carrying him to Rabat is fired on by Moroccan Air Force pilots.
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President Hastings Banda, president of Malawi, pays a state visit to South Africa (16-20 Aug.), meeting the State President and
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The Springbok rugby team beats Australia 16-9 in the second test in Durban.
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Prime Minister Vorster says that the number of diplomats from African and Asian countries can be expected to increase, as South
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Algeria is admitted to the Arab League.
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The French rugby team beats the Springbok team 9-5 in Johannesburg, and wins the test series 1-0.
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Egypt’s President Gamal Abdel Nasser boycotts first London conference to discuss Suez Canal.
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Gwendoline Lindiwe Mahlangu-Nkabinde, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly (2004 to date), is born.
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Marilyn Martin, director of the South African National Art Museum, is born.
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World War 2: North Africa. US Army Air Force planes see action for the first time in North Africa, bombing German military posi
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