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An explosion set off in an outdoor bazaar in Cairo’s Old City kills two tourists and wounds at least 19 other people.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, the assassins of SA Communist Pa
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Government soldiers in Lubumbashi, Zaire’s second largest city lay down their arms and join the cause of rebels advancing on th
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The ANC leader in the Kwazulu Natal midlands Sifiso Nkabinde is expelled from the ANC and named as a ‘spy for the enemy’ by Jac
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Rampaging troops kill Rwanda’s acting premier and eleven Belgian UN soldiers and civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a myst
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Djibouti lifts all trade and travel restrictions on South Africa, whilst Cote d’Ivoire announces the establishment of full dipl
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The government refuses to comply with the ultimatum issued by die ANC on 5 April 1991.
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Aldo Mogano, executive member of Alexandra Youth Congress, is shot dead outside his home in an alleged political murder.
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A curfew, which was imposed in the independent Venda homeland as a result of the deposition of the Frank Ravhele regime, is lif
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ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela discloses a plan to unite a wide range of anti-apartheid forces. The proposal seeks unity o
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The Bar Association of Bophuthatswana, the Side Bar of Bophuthatswana and the School of Law of the University of Bophuthatswana
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A prominent White South African lawyer and ANC member, Albie Sachs, is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and M
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Ahmad `Ali al-Mirghani, the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese People’s Forces, ousts Sudanese president Ja’far Muhammad an-Num
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The French government decides to request all sporting bodies to end links with South Africa.
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Samuel Samson Tema, minister of religion and pioneer in the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Seshego, Pietersbur
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Egypt objects to calls to move the headquarters of the Arab League from Cairo to Tunis.
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South African Airways suspends flights to Angola after an SAA aircraft was struck by bullets on approaching that country’s Crav
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The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces that a pilot plant for the manufacture of enriched uranium has gone into production
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Gerhardus Liebenberg, Free State cricket player, is born.
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UN vote 83–0 to condemn South Africa following its failure to drop Apartheid.
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Unlawful Organisations Act No 34 commences, providing for organisations threatening public order or the safety of the public to
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Following the and the protest at Langa, roughly 1,500 Blacks are detained by the South African police in Cape Town.
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Franco signs the Moroccan accord, thereby giving independence to Spanish Morocco (Marruecos)
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Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish diplomat, is elected secretary-general of United Nations.
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Spain demands control of the International Zone (Tangier) of Morocco.
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Bechuanaland (now Botswana) nationalist leader (and ex-Ngwato chief), Seretse Khama, is denied permission to see his wife by Br
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The United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) is established to research and prevent disease and improve public health wor
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WWII: British forces under Archibald Wavell evacuate Benghazi, Libya. Date given as 3 April 1941 in another source.
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The City Hall of Johannesburg is inaugurated.
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