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The engagement of Marike, first wife of Pres. F.W. de Klerk, to Johan Koekemoer, Johannesburg businessman and accountant, is an
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Rand Daily Mail explains that Black and White South Africans might compete against each other in an “open international” meetin
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Dr. Peter Waddington of Reading University, who had been invited by the Goldstone Commission to make an independent inquiry int
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The last six SA mercenaries from the attempted Seychelles coup are pardoned, freed and arrive in Johannesburg. The Minister of
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Marches organised by the African National Congress, SA Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions are held
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The SA defence force attacks alleged ANC homes and offices in Gaborone, Botswana, in Operation Plecksy. Twelve or thirteen peop
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Jabulani Sibisi, Joseph Mthembu, Sifiso Nxumalo and Nkosinthi Thenjekwayo, all ANC members, are shot dead in an ambush near Pie
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The Naledi branch of the SA Students Movement holds a meeting, attended by representatives of all Soweto schools, at which it i
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The health department slams the SA National Blood Service for revealing that Mbeki’s blood had been rejected because he decline
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Headman Tshabalala, SA singer and founder member of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen
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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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