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Start of National Environment Week. (GIED: Celebrating 10 years of Freedom, 2004).
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Hansie Cronje (32), former SA cricket captain, is killed when a light plane in which he was travelling crashes into a mountain
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The statue of former SA Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom (Hans) on Strijdom Square, Pretoria, collapses.
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A UN tribunal for Rwanda’s 1994 genocide sentences a Belgian-born radio journalist to twelve years in prison for broadcasts tha
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Ex-president Kenneth Kaunda is released after a decision not to prosecute him after a planned coup in October 1997.
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Ferdi Barnard, former member of the CCB (Civil Cooperation Bureau) is found guilty of the murder in Johannesburg on the activis
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against Malawi in an away game.
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South Africa and Syria establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level.
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South Africa rejoins the Commonwealth after an absence of thirty-three years.
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Justice R.J. Goldstone, Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry Regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation, exp
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Bella Motsupi, grandmother of Vosloorus activist Thuli Motsupi, is killed in Vosloorus.
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Lindiwe Maziya (wife), Zwelakhe and Elizabeth (all relatives of the chairperson of the Vosloorus Crisis Committee, Ali Maziya),
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The US government orders its diplomats around the world to boycott South African Republic Day functions.
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An inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale, who had died in custody in Johannesburg Security Police headquarters in August 1982
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The inquest into Dr. Aggett’s death is adjourned for the third time when police object to the use, as evidence, of a statement
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Three offices of the PFP are petrol-bombed in Johannesburg. The South African Liberation Support Cadre (SALSC) claims responsib
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Festivities to mark the twentieth anniversary of the South African Republic reach a climax with a massive military display in D
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Umkhonto weSizwe strikes at the Sasol Complex, causing damage estimated at R66 million.
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Rhodesia formally ends nearly ninety years of White minority rule and declares it will now be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia.
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KwaZulu: Criminal Procedure Act No 14 commences.
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Rhodesian police shoot and kill eleven Blacks from amongst those rioting in Salisbury.
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The Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Seals, to which SA is a party, is signed in London.
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The planned reopening of the University of the North (Turfloop) fails. Every major Black campus endorses strike action.
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The Bophuthatswana Legislative Assembly is proclaimed with Lucas Mangope as chief minister.
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A Legislative Assembly is instituted in the Venda homeland, with partial self-government granted on 1 Feb. 1973.
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The government announces in a White Paper plans to re-organise the administration of South-West Africa, which will give Pretori
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) establishes Radio Bantu, consisting of Radio Zulu, Radio Xhosa and Radio Seso
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The constitution of Tunisia, independent since 20 March 1956, is promulgated. Now a National Day.
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Caswell Sipho Makama, advisor to the minister of public works and chair of Onderstepoort Biological products as well as directo
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