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Pope John Paul II appoints thirty-one new cardinals including three from Africa – Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria.
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Pope John Paul II appoints thirty-one new cardinals including three from Africa – Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria.
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Opposition politician Etienne Tshisekedi returns to the Democratic Republic of Congo after two years of self-imposed exile.
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The UN Security Council ends sanctions against Sudan. The sanctions had been imposed in 1996 after Sudan refused to extradite s
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The UN Security Council ends sanctions against Sudan. The sanctions had been imposed in 1996 after Sudan refused to extradite s
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The Industrial Development Corporation, Sagem SA, and the SAPS sign an agreement to implement an Automated Fingerprint Identifi
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The Industrial Development Corporation, Sagem SA, and the SAPS sign an agreement to implement an Automated Fingerprint Identifi
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Robert McBride, Barend Strydom, Mehetheleli Mncube and Mzondeleli Nondula are among 150 political prisoners released.
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Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko agrees to form a coalition government with opposition leaders after five days of rioting, th
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Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko agrees to form a coalition government with opposition leaders after five days of rioting, th
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Residences at the University of Bophuthatswana, closed on 11 February after riots following the return to power of President Lu
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South Africa was told by IAEA to open all nuclear plants to international inspection or face sanctions by the International Ato
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The caucus of the National Party elects as party leader, and thereby as Prime Minister, Pieter Willem Botha, the Minister of De
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Allison Wessels George Champion, trade union leader, politician and businessman, dies in Chesterville, Durban. In 1942 he was
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Proposals for the consolidation of ‘homelands’ in the Transvaal, which will have the effect of reducing twenty-six or twenty-se
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SA signs Custom Convention on the Temporary Importation of Professional and Scientific Equipment. (
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President Idi Amin of Uganda offers to dispatch a ten-man investigation mission to South Africa. South Africa replies by inviti
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President Gamal Abdel Nasser (52), Egyptian leader, dies of a heart attack. Sadat replaces him in October.
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Roelof Temmingh, SA composer and organist, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He emigrates with his family in 1958 to SA.
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Pieter-Dirk Uys, SA satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town.
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Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, trade union leader, marries Ruth Kathleen Hunt of Barkly East.
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Ethiopia joins the League of Nations.
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It is announced that 15 000 applications per week for gold mining permits are received in Johannesburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At a joint secret meeting of the ZAR’s First and Second Volksrade, the motion to issue the ultimatum to Brita
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The Rev. Paul Hendrik Roux, chaplain and general during Anglo-Boer War 2, after whom Paul Roux, OFS, was named, is born in Hope
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The Susan Crisp (198 tons) is wrecked and five crewmembers are missing near Plettenberg Bay. She was on her way to remove provi
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Jean Pierre Pellissier, missionary and progenitor of the Pellissier family in South Africa, is born in France.
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Andre P. Brink is one of twenty-eight recipients who receive the country’s highest honours at the eighth presentation of Nation
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On the same day that Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula says South Africa is enjoying better safety than in the past
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