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Twenty-nine (numbers differ, according to the police nineteen) people are killed in an attack by police on election protestors
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Flight 139, an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens on 26 June, arrives at Entebbe, Uganda. Hijackers demand release o
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Sonwabo Eddie Funde, businessman and director on several boards, is born in Johannesburg. He achieved an MSc in Electrical Engi
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South Africa, Angola and Cuba formally accept the principles of an Angola/Namibia peace plan. The three countries, in separate
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Some 6500 workers strike at Iscor’s Vanderbijlpark plant over management’s offer of a 34c-an-hour increase. The union is demand
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James Cameron, SA educationist and vice-chancellor of the University of the Cape of Good Hope, is born on Madagascar.
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The pro-government Afrikaans newspaper, Die Beeld, in an editorial coinciding with Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday, urges the go
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The SA government transfers R2bn to the Independent Development Trust to ‘overcome the backlog in the socio-economic developmen
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Cornelis Jacob Langenhoven, SA author and writer of the words of Die Stem, dies at his home ‘Arbeidsgenot’ in Oudtshoorn.
EventStats SA reports that the number of commercial farming units in South Africa decreased by 26% between 1993 and 2002
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Guy Tachard, a French astronomer who set up an observatory in die Company Gardens in the Cape, makes his first observations.
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David Nthubu Koloane, SA artist, is born in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He received his art training at the Bill Ainslie Studi
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A SA fishing trawler, the Sudurhavid, comes to grief at the Falkland Islands and seventeen of the thirty-eight crewmembers drow
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Makhosi Nyoka, Lindiwe Mthembu, Surendra Naidu and Nontsikelelo Cothoza, all ANC members, are shot in an ambush near Piet Retie
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William W.P. Selborne (82), British High Commissioner in SA and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony (1905-1909),
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An English troop carrier, the Birkenhead with Robert Salmond as captain, carrying reinforcements for the 8th Frontier War, runs
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Keith Sandile Kunene, attorney Supreme Court of SA and chair or vice-chair of numerous companies and commissions, is born.
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Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and other African National Congress officials arrive in Natal at the start of an ANC "peace
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The Minister of Manpower Utilisation warns that the government is planning to take a tougher line with the rapidly expanding an
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SA government opens “whites only” downtown districts of Johannesburg and Durban to all races in the first break with apartheid
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The ANC national executive committee endorses the proposal of an interim government of national unity not more than five years
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Rebel leader Laurent Kabila, after a plea from the United Nations, agrees to delay an attack on Zaire’s largest refugee camp. T
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Simon Moshapo, SA artist, is born in Waterpoort district, Northern Transvaal. He taught art at Batlhalerwa High School for pa
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Pres. P.W. Botha issues a certificate to prevent the Windhoek Supreme Court from trying six SA Defence Force personnel for the
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In an important policy shift, South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louis NeI, discloses that his government is se
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Egypt’s state security court finds Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, and sentences
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The SA government announces that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will be requested to help in repatri
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Indians in SA start a protest under Mohandas Gandhi against new legislation forcing all male members to carry passbooks and hav
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John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour
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