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An unexploded bomb is found outside ANC offices in Brussels, Belgium.
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A bomb explodes in front of the post office in Krugersdorp, killing two security guards and injuring at least twenty people.
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Beyers Naudé is arrested together with Allan Boesak and over 200 others for their part in a demonstration march through
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In the worst bus accident in SA history, a school bus with seventy-six learners of Hoërskool Vorentoe plunges into the Westden
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The South African rugby team beats South America 50-18 in Pretoria.
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Minister of Defence P.W. Botha presents a White Paper outlining defence policy and justifying the increased expenditure which n
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The government’s final proposals for the consolidation of the ‘homelands’ are announced. The total number of separate homeland
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A major detailed Administration statement is made by the United States Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, David
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SA signs an agreement with France with regard to the launching of the eole balloons.
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Johannes Kerkorrel (Ralph John Rabie), Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg. He died in 2002.
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Dumisani Henry Makhaye, ANC politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander and trainer, is born in KwaMashu, Natal. He represented
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Police kill fourteen people when peasants protest against enforced cattle culling in Witzieshoek, OFS.
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Peter Loubser Were Becker, author, ethnologist and advertising executive, is born at Veld View, Rivonia. He was a special frien
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John Fleming (Jack) Brock, scientist, physician and professor who developed the Department of Medicine at the University of Cap
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Joubert, commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republie
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Henry William Alexander Cooper (Samuel Zwaartman) (52), SA author, dies in Lisbon, Portugal.
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Anglo-Boer War 1: A Boer force of 150 men storms Majuba and drives out 400 British troops in the decisive battle of the Anglo-T
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The first issue of The Cape Times appears in Cape Town.
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Pres. Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, arrive at the Cape Town International Airport, the first American president to visit S
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Winnie Mandela announces that she had instituted legal proceedings against the Minister of Safety and Security Sydney Mufamadi
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UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar
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Soldiers overthrow Mali’s military dictator after days of rioting and protests that leave dozens dead.
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Mr Piet Clase, Minister of Education for Whites, announces that the government has decided to abandon the principle of segregat
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Police opens fire on anti-apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng, near Johannesburg, killing at least fourteen people
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’Stay-At-Home’ by Nelson Mandela
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Joint Press Statement Issued By The Ministries Of Interior And Of Foreign Affairs And Cooperation Of The Republic Of Mozambique And The Ministries Of Safety And Security And Of Foreign Affairs Of The Republic Of South Africa: Maputo 16 March 1998
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Top army officers purged
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Report on General J.B.M. Hertzog’s Speech at De Wildt , 7 December 1912
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Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944
NAME: The name of the Organisation shall be "African National Congress Youth League" hereinafter styled: C.Y.L. II AIMS: (a) To arouse and encourage national…