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Algeria’s military-installed president, Liamine Zeroual, is proclaimed winner of the November 16 election, boycotted by most ma
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The Restitution of Land Rights Bill is passed by President Mandela and signed into law.
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Military rule is re-imposed in Nigeria when General Sani Abacha ousts civilian leader Ernest Shonekan.
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Leaders of twenty political parties at the Multi-party Negotiating Process endorse an interim constitution and an electoral bil
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The OAU observer team led by Botswana Ambassador Legwaila arrives in Johannesburg.
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A SA woman, Olivia Forsyth, allegedly a spy for the SA government against the ANC, who has been holed up in the British Embassy
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Students at the University of Bophuthatswana win a Supreme Court application to have hostels reopened, but the court rejects th
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Amos Tshabalala, civic activist, is stabbed to death in Tsakana.
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Meshack Mogale (16), dies in police custody after being arrested at a night vigil for an unrest victim. He was allegedly kicked
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Blacks (Urban Areas) Amendment Act No 97, introducing a ninety-nine-year leasehold system, commences. Full ownership was not at
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha gives evidence before the Erasmus Commission, at his own request.
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Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts an invitation to visit Israel. The Egyptian foreign minister and his deputy resign ov
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The P.K. le Roux Dam (now Vanderkloof Dam), an integral part of the Orange River development project to provide electric power,
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A Black high school student, Sipho Malaza, dies while in Security Police custody. His death is the twenty-first in detention si
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A ban on the publication of military involvements in Angola is imposed on South African newspapers.
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The Democratic Party officially comes into being at a one-day conference in Johannesburg attended by some 200 delegates from th
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Prof. T.H. le Roux (86), Afrikaans linguist, dies.
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Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister, announces in the House of Commons that the British government has decided to impose
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The civilian government of Sudan is overthrown by the military; Ibrahim Abboud becomes prime minister.
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General Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes Egyptian head of state following the fall of President Mohamed Naguib.
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Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, businessman and former secretary-general of the ANC and head of the Constitutional Assembly, is born
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Christopher J. Bird (66), SA historian, dies in Pietermaritzburg.
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Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, Herbert Hull and David Lewis, strikers during the revolt, are hung in the Central Prison in Pretori
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Prof. Richard Ernest van der Ross, rector of the University of Western Cape, is born in Plumstead, Cape Town.
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Prince Arthur of Connaught, the grandson of Queen Victoria, arrives in SA as governor-general. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria New
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Governor Bruno von Schuckmann of German South-West Africa is succeeded by Dr Theodor Zeits, who occupied the post until 1915.
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The SA rugby team loses 0-6 against Scotland in Glasgow.
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Dr Nicolaas Diederichs, SA politician and state president (1975 – 1978), is born in Ladybrand, OFS.
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Dr Theo Schumann, director of the Fuel Research Institute and the Weather Bureau, is born.
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