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Unita leader Jonas Savimbi meets President Mandela in Cape Town.
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Malawi voters stream from impoverished villages to take part in the first multiparty election in three decades. Kamuzu Banda, o
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Candlelight Memorial Day.
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Egyptian president Muhammad Hosni Mubarak orders direct-dial communications to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and the Sudan
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Neal Stephenson, SA champion body board surfer, loses his leg in a shark attack at Keurbooms River, near Plettenberg Bay, Weste
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Ernest Mabaso, chairman of the ANC Zola Branch and member of the Soweto Civic Association, is shot dead as he is leaving his ho
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The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has predicted that 1,200,000 people in Ethiopia are about to starve to death.
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Tumi Padi and Nokuzolo, both MK’s, are shot dead in Soweto. Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the rep
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Mobutu Sese Seko, who has ruled Zaire for more than 30 years, looting it of billions of dollars, flees the capital city as rebe
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A military coup fails to remove Mengistu Haile Mariam as president of Ethiopia.
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A team of American palaeontologists announces the discovery of a 1.5 million year old skull of the shark-toothed reptile Carcha
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In a major move in the process of privatisation in South Africa, the Conversion of Iscor Bill is passed, enabling Iscor to be c
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CODESA II talks, started on the previous day, end in deadlock. The ANC threatens mass action if the government does not comprom
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Algeria and Morocco decide to restore diplomatic relations after twelve years of bitter political disputes.
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Two White men are killed and twelve Africans injured in a clash between mine officials and miners outside the number one shaft
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Elvis Rathogwa, chair of FAWU shop stewards’ council, disappears in Wynberg. The farm fare management claimed that they had acc
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Former information officer of the SADF, Brig. J. Bosman, reveals in Parliament that one third of the 3 000 troops involved in S
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Minister of National Health and Population Development Rina Venter announces the abolishment of racial segregation in state hos
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Nelson Ramodike is re-elected as chief minister of Lebowa. He announces that he will personally handle the portfolio of law and
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The Zimbabwean government and the African National Congress blame South Africa for a blast, which damages the ANC’s diplomatic
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Mrs Helen Suzman, PFP MP, announces her retirement from Parliament after having served as MP for Houghton, Johannesburg, for th
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SA loses 18-19 against the New Zealand Cavaliers rugby team.
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The new Labour Appeal Court delivers its first ruling, overriding an unfair labour practise ruling against Ergo in November 198
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The Advocate General Bill is introduced by L. Muller, Minister of Transport, against strong opposition from the Progressive Fed
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A conference organised by Lawyers for Human rights is held, with the theme Kwa-Ndebele – The Future. A resolution asking for
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South African police close the investigation into the death of
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International Conference on Sports Boycott against South Africa, UNESCO House, Paris, starts.
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Marthinus Lourens de Villiers (91), composer of ‘Die Stem’ (The Call of South Africa), dies in Wellington, Cape.
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South Africa concedes that almost two million Black people have been relocated since 1960, but maintains that only 456,860 were
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