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Abraham Faure, clergyman and author moving spirit behind the convocation of the first DRC synod in 1824, is born in Stellenbosc
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Tories accuse the Government of allowing UK troops to become victims as negotiations continue to free eleven soldiers held host
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Following facilitation by former president Nelson Mandela, the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi is signed
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Nearly 300 people are killed in a single late-night altercation between the government and Islamic militants in Algeria.
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The United States denies Black nationalist leader Louis Farrakhan permission to accept a promised $1bn gift from Libya to help
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An agreement is signed for the sale of Anglo America’s almost 48 percent shareholding in Johnnies Industrial Corporation to the
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Workers in Nigeria’s key oil industry, air traffic controllers and others launch a strike in a bid to force out the military-ba
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The first four planes carrying US food aid reach Balet Huen, Somalia, as hundreds cheer.
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Washington Duke Sosibo, traditional headman and local IFP organiser, is shot dead as he leaves a local supermarket in Richmond,
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Johannesburg Star reported that Algeria called for normal relations with SA.
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South African companies donate twelve tons of food worth R100 000 to "the people of Moscow".
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During a meeting in Livingstone, Zambia, President Kenneth Kaunda supports acting South African President F.W. de Klerk’s moves
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More than 10 000 Namibians attend a Windhoek rally to mark the anniversary of the start of SWAPO’s independence struggle.
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Students at Ciskei’s Fort Hare University go on a six-day boycott of classes following the detention of a fellow student, Sicel
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Faced with an increasingly critical and protest media that support the democratisation of South Africa, the Minister of Home Af
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Rioting (28-31 August) start after a Mandela march in Cape Town, in which thirty-one residents are killed in police action.
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Elections to the House of Delegates among the Indian community are marked by a low poll, protests, boycotts and active oppositi
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Geoffrey Walter Ashton Chubb (71), SA cricket player in five test matches, dies in East London.
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Malawi switches over to a new decimal currency, with as unit the kwacha.
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Transkei Authorities Act No 6, setting in place mechanisms for the recognition of the Transkei government, commences.
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Full citizenship is conferred on all inhabitants of Portuguese territories, including Mozambique and Angola.
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Fathima Dada, publisher and Chief Executive of Maskew Miller Longman Education, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
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World War 2: East Africa. The South African Air Force flying out from Kenya bombs Italian bases in Somaliland.
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Sir Charles Patrick John Coghlan (64), first premier of Southern Rhodesia, dies.
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William (Bloke) Modisane, journalist, writer and actor is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He died in 1986 in Dortmund, West G
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The second Pan-African Congress meets in London, Brussels & Paris.
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Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, co-founder of i.a. The African Garment Workers’ Union in Cape Town, jailed and
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Dr Leander Starr Jameson announces the proposed colonial commission of inquiry into martial law in Cape Town.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At a combined meeting of the Executive Councils of both Republics, President Steyn proposes that the 74-yea
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