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Human rights organisation Amnesty International marks forty years of activism. The organisation, which won the Nobel Prize in 1
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses 0-2 against Argentina in an away game.
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Rebels topple the government of Sierra Leone in a violent coup.
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Two South Africans, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, reach the summit of Mount Everest and become the first official South African
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Justice Richard Goldstone calls for the establishment of a "truth commission" on apartheid atrocities because "v
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The UN arms embargo on South Africa is finally lifted following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government o
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In an interview with the Financial Times (London), President F.W. de Klerk insists that power sharing between the country’s mai
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Winnie Mandela and the entire executive of the ANC Women’s League are suspended.
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SA signs co-operation agreement with Venda regarding structural adjustment.
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15,000 Falashas Ethiopian Jews are airlifted from Addis Ababa to Israel as rebel forces approach the Ethiopian capital.
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Former Mandela United football coach Jerry Richardson is found guilty on all charges, including the murder of teenage activist
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The African National Congress announces in Lusaka that it will not abandon the armed struggle against White domination until a
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Barend Strydom receives eight death sentences as the result of racial murders in Pretoria the previous year.
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S. Nyanda, ANC member, is abducted in Mbabane, Swaziland.
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The secretary of the United Democratic Front in the Border, Makhenkesi Stofile, is sentenced to an effective eleven years’ impr
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Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.
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At the Crossroads squatter camp near Cape Town, 30,000 Blacks are forcibly removed from their homes.
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The Prohibition of Political Interference Act, which bans racially mixed political parties, is to be repealed.
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Several ANC sabotage attacks take place: guerrillas attack an East London police station; sections of railway line are blown up
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S. le Roux Marais (82), one of the pioneers of Afrikaans lieder (art songs), dies in Graaff-Reinet.
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US raises concern over the presence of Cuban military advisers in Ethiopia.
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René de Villiers, member of parliament for Parktown, draws the attention of Deputy Minister of Bantu Education, Dr A.P.
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Final land consolidation proposals for Bophuthatswana are announced. They involve moving more than 120,000 Tswana people from t
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In Sudan Ja’far Muhammad an-Numeiry, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council overthrows the government of Ismail al-A
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Heads of thirty or thirty-two African states sign the Charter of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in Addis Ababa on Afri
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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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Rolland Beaumont, (74), SA cricket player in 5 test matches (1912-1914), dies in Berea, Durban.
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Sydney Percival Bunting (53), SA communist and labour union leader, dies in Johannesburg.
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Jacob Lub (58), SA author and school inspector, dies.
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