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Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields including the first Afrikaans films, dies while v
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Griffiths Mxenge, Umlazi, Durban, civil rights attorney, is found stabbed after being abducted by a Security Branch hit squad.
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President Anwar Sadat of Egypt arrives in Israel.
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President Modibo Keita of Mali is deposed by the army in a bloodless coup.
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Richard Haines, SA actor, is born.
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G.S (Smart) Gumede, S.A artist, is born in Ndedwe District, Natal.
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Basil Neo Sipho Bridgeman (Doc) Bikitshan, veteran journalist and story-teller is born in Mayfair, Johannesburg. He grows up in
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Prof. Elize Botha, Afrikaans literary critic and former president of the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SA Academy of Scien
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The governor-general of Sudan, Sir Lee Stack, is killed in Cairo.
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Justice Reinhold Gregorowski (66), the judge who delivered the death sentence on four members of the Reform Committee after the
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George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, is born in Johannesburg.
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Anton Ackerman, SA actor and member of the theatrical company of Wena Naudé and Willem van Zyl, is born.
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Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, is born at Uitvlucht, Pi
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Friedrich von Lindequist, new governor of German South West Africa, arrives in Lüderitzbucht.
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Mpande, Zulu chief and half-brother of Dingane, dies at his kraal Nodwengu in Zululand.
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General Lucas Johannes Meyer, later president of the New Republic (Nieuwe Republiek) established on territory received as rewar
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Energy specialist and free-lance reporter Andrew Kennedy reports that the Koeberg Nuclear plant is quite safe despite power cut
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Two Johannesburg paramedics, Adriaan Craukamp and Johan Erasmus, who abandoned a homeless man, who later died in the street, ha
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Child sex-slaves are freed. Superintendent Andre Neethling, head of the child protection unit in Gauteng, announces police have
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The SA rugby team beats England 24-14 in London.
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Jacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) world champion title.
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Nigeria’s new military ruler, General Sani Abacha, dissolves all democratic institutions.
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Ten MK members are killed when an alleged member of MK pulls a grenade at a party in Sebokeng, PWV.
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After a marathon ten-hour Cabinet meeting, President F.W. de Klerk appointed Lt.-Gen. Pierre Steyn as head of all intelligence
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The National Working Committee of the ANC adopts a discussion document entitled "Negotiations A Strategic Perspective"
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The three Zimbabwean intelligence officers standing trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house in Bulawayo are sentenced to death.
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Dr Pierre Rossouw, ecumenical affairs and information officer of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) re-emphasises that the DRC con
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United Democratic Front (UDF) officials Patrick Lekota, the organisation’s publicity secretary, Popo Molefe, its national secre
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The results of an opinion poll indicate that more than 160 000 White South African adults plan to leave the country within the
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