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An Egyptian military court convicts seventy-two Islamic militants of subversion and sentences four of them to death.
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President P.W. Botha admits in Parliament that he personally phoned the SA Broadcasting Corporation and intervened to change a
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Security Police continue to arrest prominent members of the Coloured community. Several Black journalists who covered the Sowet
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts issues a proclamation calling on the Republican forces still in the field to surrender.
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The agriculture department promises that targets set for Black ownership of agriculture are negotiable, though, willing to nego
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The Lesotho government announces that an undisclosed number of South African refugees have decided voluntarily to withdraw from
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General Louis Botha announces the South African government’s decision to carry the war into German South West Africa.
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Anglo American announces its decision to invest R4 billion in the zinc-mining project in Gamsberg, Northern Cape.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Two burghers and a young boy are allegedly murdered after surrendering to the notorious Bushveld Carbineers
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An elephant tramples German tourist Rita Hahn to death on the Hans Merensky golf course in Phalaborwa, Limpopo.
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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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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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Prime Minister Botha’s visit to eight countries in Europe Portugal, Great Britain, West Germany, Belgium, France, Austria, Ital
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Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with Libya and orders all Libyan embassy staff to leave within seven days.
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Dinana Mbetheni (21) is found hanging from an electric wire tied to a bar in his cell in Alice.
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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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Dr. N.E. Alexander and four others are found guilty of sabotage and are sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
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Dorothy Fischer becomes the first woman in SA to receive a new heart. She lives for twelve years afterwards.
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika, favoured by the powerful military is elected president of Algeria. His opponents, who withdraw to protest
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South Africa’s Foreign Minister announces that South African troop withdrawal from Angola is to be completed within a week.
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The Katanga Company is formed in Brussels to exploit copper deposits in the Katanga area of Central Africa.
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Traditional Bushman artist Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper (or Longlife Together to the locals), aged 38, dies suddenly from natura
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Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.
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Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.
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British prime minister Margaret Thatcher still refuses to impose sanctions on South Africa despite reports of yesterday’s raids
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The Bulhoek massacre, during which police fire on charging ‘Israelites’, a religious sect who refuse to leave a squatters’ sett
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the Orange Free State. Lord Roberts changes the name to Orange River Colony.
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Tribal clashes continue to take place in Pondoland (Transkei) between supporters and opponents of the African territorial autho
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The Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR/Transvaal Republic) resolves to declare war on Chief Sekhukhune. Presiden
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