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Sir Sydney Smith Bell (74), chief justice of the Cape Colony, dies in London.
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The St Helena of 142 tons is wrecked at Plettenberg Bay.
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During a three-day trip to Cuba, Mugabe says in Havana the amendments he signed into law on 9 September, marked "the liber
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Local media in Harare report another nine people have died of hunger in Bulawayo, despite President Robert Mugabe’s assertion t
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Rachel Alexander (Ray) Simons, legendary communist and trade unionist born in Latvia in 1914, dies in Cape Town.
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Local elections in Morocco takes place. The two governing coalition parties win with 30% of the vote.
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Rwanda leader Paul Kagame is sworn in as first elected president since the 1994 genocide.
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The UN Security Council votes to lift sanctions against Libya that had been in place for eleven years as a response to the 1988
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The SA High Commission in Botswana, in collaboration with the business community of the area, hosts the first-ever South Africa
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Lindi Memani, SA straw-weight champion, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Union.
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Jacob Mofokeng, cruiserweight boxer of SA, wins the World Boxing Union world champion title.
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Iranian President Rafsanjani arrives in South Africa as part of a six-nation tour of Sub-Saharan Africa amid opposition to it w
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South Africa signs framework agreement for financial cooperation with the European Investment Bank.
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South Africa signs trade agreement with the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic.
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The Amsterdam-based Shipping Research Bureau publish a report entitled "Fuel for Apartheid" on oil supplies to South
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The four victorious allies of World War II (WWII) and the two Germanys formally end the war, signing a treaty that clear way fo
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Adv. Anton Lubowski (37), secretary-general of the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo), is shot and killed outside
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President P.W. Botha visits Mozambique and in talks with President Joaquim Chissano, Botha pledges not to support RENAMO, to de
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South African riot police use tear gas and whips in Soweto as unrest continue. A sweeping ban on meetings critical of the Gover
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The SA rugby team loses the third test against new Zealand in Auckland 22-25 and the series 1-2. Ray Mort scores three trie
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South Africa’s new Ambassador to the United Nations, Adriaan (Riaan) Eksteen, presents his credentials to the secretary-general
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On the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Steve Biko, police arrest sixteen people including his brother, his sister
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Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, dies in detention.
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The Coloured Persons Representative Council (CRC) adjourns without passing its budget and urges the government to meet its dema
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Military officers depose Emperor Haile Selassie from the Ethiopian throne he had occupied for more than fifty years.
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Hettie Smit (S.J. Van Vuuren), SA author, dies.
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Dr. H. Muller is elected as the National Party’s leader in the Transvaal, following the resignation of B. Schoeman. His electio
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The SA rugby team wins the fourth test against New Zealand 20-17 in Johannesburg, thereby winning the series 3-1.
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Minister of Defence P.W. Botha announces in Cape Town that the posts of Secretary for Defence and Commandant-General of the Def
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