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An ANC delegation, led by Deputy President Mbeki, makes the party’s second major submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Com
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A rusty freighter teeming with thousands of sick and hungry Liberian refugees is finally allowed to limp into a Ghanaian port a
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Cyril Ramaphosa confirms that he is resigning as ANC Secretary-General, as well as from Parliament.
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Xenophon Constantine Balaskas (83), SA cricket player in nine test matches (1930-1939), dies in Sandton.
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, wins 2-1 against Zambia in a home game.
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Agreement is reached in Working Group III of CODESA on the establishment of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council, which
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Inkatha supporters rampage through a squatter camp in the Kagiso Township in the West Rand, killing at least twenty-two people.
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The commission of enquiry into the Helderberg air disaster under judge Cecil Margo, reports its findings.
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An International Labour Organisation report says South Africans are becoming poorer each year because of the cost of maintainin
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A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven.
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KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi says he will have nothing to do with a dispensation that does not include Black Sou
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Mozambique rejects the findings of the Margo commission of inquiry into the air crash in which Mozambican leader Samora Machel
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A powerful bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Meadowlands, Soweto, at 7:00 pm. No one is injured.
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The multiracial President’s Council presents its recommendations for a reform of the constitutional and political system. The B
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P.W. Botha is re-elected as National Party leader.
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The British Sports Council urges the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all other international sporting governing bodie
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The Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, tells Parliament that nearly 700 terrorists were arrested in 1977 an
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Pik Botha sees his election victory as a mandate to bring about internal change and to move away from discrimination.
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A female teacher is attacked by two robbers on her way to school and is saved by more than 100 pupils from Orlando North Second
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A Bill prohibiting demonstrations near the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town is passed with the support of the opposition Unite
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The (SASO) adopts the “Alice Declaration” at the federal Theological Seminary in the Eastern Cape. The Declaration resolves th
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Extension of University Education Amendment Act No 29 commences.
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Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician and Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, die
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France suspends aid to Tunis in response to recent land seizure.
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Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, ANC politician and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born. He was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to fiv
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France and independent French-speaking West African states initiate an agreement setting up a West African Monetary Union.
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South African General Law Amendment Bill imposes death penalty for sabotage.
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The United State of the Congo is founded, with Leopoldville as capital.
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Sakumzi (Saki) Macozoma, ANC politician, director of various companies and member of several Boards, is born in Port Elizabeth.
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