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Stoffel Botha (68), Minister of Interior Affairs and Post and Telecommunication in the previous government, dies in Howick of h
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Ebrahim Rasool is elected as chairman of the ANC in the Western Cape.
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Hundreds of Zairians riot against Rwandan refugees, looting food intended for them.
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Seventeen Greek tourists and an Egyptian tour guide are killed by gunmen in Cairo. Another fifteen are injured, three criticall
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
From 7 April until mid July 1994, ethnic violence broke out in Rwanda between the Tutsis and the Hutus. The Hutus who are the majority, set out to kill, rape…
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Ken Oosterbroek, photographer for The Star, is killed when he and several other journalists are caught in the crossfire while c
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Gunmen driving through the area and firing randomly kill nineteen residents in Sebokeng.
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State President F.W. de Klerk announces plans for a two day multi-party conference and the establishment of a standing commissi
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President F.W. de Klerk announces the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry, led by Justice Richard Goldstone, into the poli
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In a parliamentary speech, President de Klerk rules out any possibility of Black majority rule.
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Angry crowds protest outside American embassies throughout the world as backlash continues against US attack on Libya.
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Two people are killed in a bomb explosion in the Wild Coast Sun Casino in the Transkei.
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Capital of Zimbabwe is renamed Harare (old name was Salisbury).
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Rebels opposed to the Marxist Government of Mozambique claim responsibility today for cutting power lines from the Cabora Bassa
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Rhodesia gains independence after ninety years as a British colony, taking the new name Zimbabwe. The 1972-1979 war of independ
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Adolph Jentsch (88), landscape painter of Namibia, dies.
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Haile Gebrselassie, long distance Ethiopian athlete and the first to run the 5 000 m in less than thirteen minutes and the 10 0
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Libya joins the United Arab Republic (Egypt, Iraq, and Syria) to form a Federation of Arab Republics.
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Uganda becomes first non-communist nation to formally denounce US involvement in Vietnam.
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Dr. N.E. Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage and are sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
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In return for the release of Jomo Kenyatta, the Kenyan African National Union (ZANU) agrees to take part in negotiations for go
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Phambili Ka Ntloko, prominent member of AZAPO and elected national organiser of the movement in 1985, is born in Cape Town.
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For a second time, Nasser takes presidency away from Naguib.
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Destour (nationalist movement) Party’s independence demands are announced by Habib Ali Bourguiba in Tunisia.
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The League of Nations is officially dissolved in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Andreas Jacobus (Kat) Liebenberg, former head of the SA Defence Force, is born.
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French and Spanish representatives meet with Riff envoys but fail to reach an armistice agreement.
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John Bird, civil servant, scholar and the father of historical study in Natal, is born in Rondebosch, Cape.
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Death of Enoch Sontonga, author of Nkosi Sikelel ‘iAfrika.
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