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Fourteen people are killed when the SAP use violence to break up a township meeting in Queenstown, Eastern Cape.
Fourteen people are killed when the SAP use violence to break up a township meeting in Queenstown, eastern Cape.
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The opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP) opens its membership to all races.
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Minister of Justice, J.T. Kruger, says the PAC has launched two insurgency campaigns, Homecoming and Curtain Raiser, against So
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Palestinian students storm the Egyptian embassy in Athens, and an embassy in Beirut comes under rocket attack as protests sprea
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Eric H. Louw, SA foreign minister since January 1955, announces his intention to retire.
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King Mohammed V calls for the "total and unconditional" withdrawal of US military bases, and French and Spanish troop
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A joint Egyptian-Syrian parliamentary meeting approves the creation of a Federal Union of Egypt and Syria.
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WWII: British troops launch attack in West African desert.
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Amy Johnson lands in Cape Town, beating the existing record flight time from London by over ten hours.
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Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, SA painter and mother of actress Jana Celliers, is born in Rustenburg, Tvl.
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Gold is discovered in former Rhodesia, 320 km south of Salisbury (now Harare).
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Anglo-Boer War 2: a White Paper is published by the British government explaining the need for concentration camps in South Afr
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Prof. F.J. Labuschagne, Afrikaans linguist and lector at the Potchefstroom University, is born in Ventersdorp.
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Johanna Brandt, nurse and spy for the Boer forces during Anglo-Boer War 2 and also author of several books on the war and natur
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Sir Frederick Napier Broome, colonial secretary of Natal, is born in Montreal, Canada.
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African Statistics Day
The African Statistics Day (ASD) is celebrated every year on the 18th of November. This event was initiated in 1990 by the Subsidiary Body of the United…
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Cabinet approves the controversial Telkom share deal, saying it believes the Elephant Consortium will ensure broad-based Black
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The Congress of SA Trade Unions has urged its alliance partner, the ANC, to clarify its stance on political and human rights ab
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South Africa finally breaks the Nigerian jinx via a 2-1 well-deserved victory in an exciting Nelson Mandela Challenge clash at
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Breyton Paulse is included after first being omitted in the Springbok team for the test against England on 20 November, after a
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It is announced that French doctors have made a major break-through, which may lead to the invention of a HIV/Aids vaccine.
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Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa undergoes hip surgery.
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The National Arts Council (NAC) launches the National Craft Development Initiative as part of its National Development Strategy
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The United Nations urges Rwanda to co-operate with an international tribunal, after the release of genocide suspect Jean-Bosco
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Keith Alexander (52), SA painter, dies of cancer in Johannesburg.
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A complete skeleton of a gorgonop, one of the most dangerous predatory carnivores that had inhabited the earth, is found near B
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Six militants open fire at the Temple of Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, killing seventy-four people, sixty-one of them foreign tou
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Two ski boats are wrecked near Mossel Bay, and nine fishermen are drowned.
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125 people die and fifty are rescued when a hijacked Ethiopian Boeing plunges into the sea at the Great Comoro.
125 people die and fifty are rescued when a hijacked Ethiopian Boeing plunges into the sea at the Great Comoro.
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