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Reports of a severe famine in the Usoga region of Uganda suggest at least 4,000 people have already died.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops arrive at the Renoster River only to find that the Boers have destroyed the bridge.
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F.B. Deemin, a gold digger of Johannesburg, is hanged in Australia for murdering his first wife and casting her in a cement blo
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Capt. Smith attacks Andries Pretorius at Congella in Natal. Smith is defeated, seventeen men are killed and thirty-one are wo
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Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure,
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The official opening of Baramall, Soweto’s first mega shopping mall.
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More than R10m in foreign currency is stolen from the safes of the SAPS serious and violent crimes (SVC) unit in Benoni, on the
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According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the
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Troops loyal to Congo’s new president, Laurent Kabila, break up protests in Kinshasa just a week after his forces enter the cap
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-2 against England in an away game.
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Seven French Trappist monks have been killed in Algeria two months after their kidnap by Islamic extremists of the Armed Islami
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The IFP withdraws from the inter-governmental forum, which provides for liaison between the central and provincial governments.
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The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire rises to 108.
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Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC, is elected chairman of the Constituent Assembly, which is to write a new constit
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President Nelson Mandela, in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament, announces that South Africa will subscribe to the U
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President Nelson Mandela opens his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town by quoting from Ingrid Jonker’s poem
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World Bank Vice President, Edward Jaycox, announces that the Bank has $1 billion worth of development projects in the pipeline
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Eritrea declares independence from Ethiopia following a referendum in April, ending a thirty-year civil war.
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A three-day Seminar on the Future Role of the United Nations in Helping Address South Africa’s Socio-economic Problems is held
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A two day conference on violence and intimidations starts in Pretoria. The ANC, AZAPO, PAC, COSATU and South African Council of
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Theophilus Dlodlo, Tutu Nkwanyane and Mildred Msomi, ANC members, are shot dead in a car outside Mbabane, Swaziland. Names of p
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The SA rugby team beats the Cavaliers of New Zealand in Pretoria 33-18.
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Asian Regional Conference for Action against Apartheid, Manila, organised by the Special Committee against Apartheid in coopera
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Legislation for three major components of the government’s plans to defuse Black grievances is introduced. Bills provide for ni
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The leadership of the Herstigte Nasionale Party is relinquished by its veteran founder, Dr. Albert Hertzog. The deputy leader,
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Pupils reject a call by the Orlando Diepkloof School Board to return to school. The strike spreads to Pimville Higher Primary S
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The new campus of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) is opened by the SA state president and chancellor of the university
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The first hijacking of a South African Airways plane takes place when two men hijack a SAA Boeing 727 tri-jet the Letaba en rou
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The Security Intelligence and State Security Council Bill is adopted, defining the functions and duties of the Bureau of State
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