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The Eastern Cape town Cradock is founded.
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Eighty-four African would-be immigrants drown off Mauritania after their boats sank in an attempt to reach Spain’s Canary Islan
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The SABC reports that former apartheid minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok has apologised to the director-general of the Pre
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Segoati Mahlangu for the agriculture department said reports that the mass culling of 13 thousand ostriches and chickens has be
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame is the overwhelming winner of presidential elections. The election was the first since the 1994 g
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The Johannesburg Earth Summit gets under way.
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Somalis celebrate the election of Abdiqasim Salad Hassan, their first president in nearly a decade.
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Penny Heyns beats the world record the sixth time in three weeks by winning the 200 m breaststroke in the Pan-Pacific Games in
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A 3-week-old rebellion reaches the outskirts of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, and hundreds of soldiers are killed or wounded.
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Former SA President F.W. de Klerk resigns as the head of the National Party and leaves politics.
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The Supreme Court convicts former Police Colonel Eugene de Kock of six killings during his service as commander of a police uni
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Gary Murray, SA welterweight, wins the World Boxing Union (WBU) world champion title.
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Eight people, including Sam Nywayo, are killed during a two-hour attack on the homes of ANC activists in Esikhaweni, Natal.
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The body of ANC member Thembinkosi Dywshu, is found by the Ciskei police, shot five times.
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SA signs a co-operation agreement with Transkei regarding structural adjustment.
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The death toll in the strife-torn Reef townships rises to 515 although relative calm had returned to all the major conflict are
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National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) general secretary Cyril Ramaphosa and president James Motlatsi are arrested in Newcastle,
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A SA rugby team beats a World team 29-19 in Cape Town.
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Mr Guata Lawrence Lefuo, a teacher in Botshabelo, successfully challenges the validity of the area’s incorporation into Qua-Qua
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Twenty-four residents are killed (26-27 August) in police action during a rent demonstration in White City, Soweto.
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Internal Security Amendment Act No 66 is imposed on South Africans. More draconian, this amendment allows for continued detenti
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Athlete Zola Budd breaks the world 5 000m record.
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An explosion takes place at the Ciskei consulate offices in the Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, in which one person is injured. I
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The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) chooses the South African Reverend Alan Boesak, of the Dutch Reformed Mission Ch
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin wrap up a two-day summit in Alexandria with the return
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Hestrie Cloete (neé Storbeck), double world champion high jumper from SA, is born in Germiston.
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A Defence Bill is passed laying down penalties for any person or organization inciting anyone to avoid military service.
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The liner SA Vaal rescues a Johannesburg man, Joseph Honeywill, eleven hours after he fell overboard near the Canary Islands.
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South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) begins armed struggle against S.A. occupation of Namibia.
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