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Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson agrees to let all foreigners leave Monrovia’s US Embassy compound and let the peacekeepers s
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Kenyan Professor Washington J. Okumu urges Chief Buthelezi to participate in the forthcoming general election. Inkatha Freedom
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SA signs agreement concerning the exchange of representatives and their privileges and immunities with the Democratic Republic
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Another ninety-six political prisoners are released and 235 political offenders are indemnified from prosecution.
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
On 19 April 1990, President Frederick Willem de Klerk announced in Parliament that the Group Areas Act of 1950 will be replaced by new non-discriminatory…
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Dr Anita Worrall, wife of Democratic Party co-leader Denis Worrall, and fifty-four other women arrive in Harare for three days
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Brigadier Riekert, minister of defence of Bophuthatswana, resigns with immediate effect. Some commentators argue that the resig
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Ten anti-apartheid demonstrators are arrested outside the South African embassy in London after a meeting marking one year of c
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Ugandan prime minister Dr Samson Kisekka appeals to the people to help clean up Kampala, the capital city.
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Johannes Mashego (26) dies in police custody in Parys, OFS. His relatives report extensive bruising and swollen face upon ident
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In a major statement, the prime minister declares that in future, South Africa will be guided solely by its own interests, and
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The International Press Institute (IPI) appoints an official observer in South Africa, Joel Mervis, to report on matters affect
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Guerrillas launch two separate raids in the far south of Rhodesia near the Transvaal border, killing three Easter holidaymakers
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Dr. Nicholaas Diederichs, former Finance Minister, is inaugurated as South Africa’s third State President.
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Security Police visit Sisulu’s house and find that Sisulu has fled.
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Portuguese forces are reinforced for continuing conflict against the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA, Popular
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The South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) is founded in Windhoek with Sam Nujoma as leader.
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As voting starts in Algeria, at least eight people are killed and twenty kidnapped. There are fears that this may slow down the
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First British ship pays Egyptian toll for use of the Suez Canal.
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Wiseman Ndabezinhle Mbambo, S.A artist, is born at Umgeni Mission Station, Inanda, Natal.
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Hendrik Jacobus Coetzee (Kobie), Minister of Justice in the previous government, is born in Ladybrand, Orange Free State.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Jannasch (76), co-founder of the SA Music Conservatory, dies in Stellenbosch.
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New constitution officially announced by King Faud I in Egypt. News 24 gives date as 20 April.
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Britain is to send more troops to Egypt to help quell nationalistic unrest.
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WWI: West AfricaCombined Anglo-French forces take Mandera, Cameroon.
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Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers, trade union leader active in the Garment Workers’ Union (GWU), is born in Wepener, OFS.
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Bambatha Rebellion:Over 7,000 British troops are called out to quell Zulu aggression in Natal.
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Jacobus Petrus de Wet, chief justice of Transvaal and acting judge in Ceylon, dies in England.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Angus Hamilton of The Times criticises Baden-Powell’s harsh ‘leave here-or-starve’ policy towards Blacks in t
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