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Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu, now in Mali. He was murdered there the f
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Petrus Johannes Denyssen, judge of the Cape Supreme Court, is born in Cape Town.
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Baron Joachim (Ammena) van Plettenberg (54), previously governor at the Cape, dies in Windesheim, Zwolle, the Netherlands.
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J. van Arkel, the first resident Dutch clergyman, arrives at the Cape. Date is given as 17 August by another source.
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Former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok and former police chief Johan van der Merwe, together with former Major-General Chri
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Southern African Development Community Day (SADC).
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Ghanaian authorities lift state of emergency in northern towns of Tamale and Yendi.
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Ruth Perry is chosen by a meeting of West African heads of state to chair Liberia’s ruling council, thus becoming Africa’s firs
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Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga
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Riots spread through Lesotho after King Letsie III dissolved the country’s first democratically elected government for 20 years
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Multi-party negotiators agree unanimously on the incorporation of Walvis Bay by Namibia.
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The treaty establishing the South African Development Community (SADC), which replaces the Southern African Development Coordin
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SA signs memorandum of agreement with Lesotho regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the international border br
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The UN Security Council authorises the urgent stationing of an open number of UN observers in South Africa to help end violence
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The ANC as well as COSATU issued statements accusing elements of the South African security forces of orchestrating the conflic
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Thirty-five people are killed in fighting between pro-Inkatha hostel-dwellers and residents in Soweto.
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The former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere bows out of mainstream politics when he quits as chairman of the ruling CCM party
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu defies public protest laws and leads 120 demonstrators in an anti-apartheid march.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu defies public protest laws and leads 120 demonstrators in an anti-apartheid march.
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In his presidential address to the South African Institute of Race Relations, Rev. Dr Stanley Mogoba said that in spite of abho
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The Security Council rejects and declares null and void the new racist constitution of South Africa. It urges governments and o
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The Security Council rejects and declares null and void the new racist constitution of South Africa. It urges governments and o
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An explosion takes place at the SAP Soweto Branch Headquarters offices, Roodepoort, Johannesburg, injuring five policemen and t
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Ruth First, journalist, academic and anti-apartheid activist, is assassinated in Maputo when opening a letter bomb addressed t
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Ruth First, journalist, academic and anti-apartheid activist, is assassinated in Maputo when opening a letter bomb addressed t
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Idi Amin expels all Asians from Uganda.
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Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan offers an interim peace agreement with Egypt based on a truce line dividing the Sinai Peni
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Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan offers an interim peace agreement with Egypt based on a truce line dividing the Sinai Peni
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Dr. Philip Blaiberg dies in South Africa, 19 months and 15 days after receiving a heart transplant, a survival record at the ti
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