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Dr Sibusiso Bengu, former minister of education, warns the University of Stellenbosch that it could not continue being an exclu

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The mutilated body of Sidwell Nonno (32), SARHWU shop steward, victim of an alleged political assassination, is find in Langa,

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Kamal el-Mallakh, an Antiquities Service inspector at the Great Pyramid Giza, discovers Khufu’s (Cheops) boat. It will be more

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Algerian government cancels second round of voting in parliamentary elections that an Islamic party looks set to win. The Islam

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Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near

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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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Germany rejects Britain’s call to effectively double aid for some of the world’s poorest countries, an adviser to Chancellor Ge

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The Chairman of Armscor announces that under an agreement with a French aviation company, Mirage III and F jet fighters will be

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Dr William Guybon Atherstone (84), medical practitioner and scientist who was probably the first to use an anaesthetic in any B

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It is alleged that Pres. Mandela concluded a transaction of R2,7 billion with Col. Muammar Gaddafi, promising weapons from SA i

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The Star newspaper mentions that hundreds of Black people are leaving the Witwatersrand, especially for Natal, and calls it an

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Hendrik Hop, leader of an expedition to the north of the Orange River, is born in the district of Paarl.

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The first completely SA built aeroplane is flown by John Weston in Kimberley. He establishing a South African non-stop flight r

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The Scot arrives in Southampton, four days after Barney Barnato was drowned near Madeira. An immediate inquest into his dea

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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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Barend Hendrik Strydom, a former right-wing member, massacres seven Blacks and an Indian and wounds sixteen in Pretoria city ce

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Grintek of SA, Saab of Sweden and British aerospace sign a historic contract for supplying military equipment worth about R60 m

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SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death. The sentence was later

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Former defence minister Magnus Malan joins former SA Defence Force chief Constand Viljoen in denying any knowledge of mass grav

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Over 600 people killed in Liberia in an unsuccessful military coup against President Samuel Doe, led by former Brigadier-Genera

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President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast announces he is planning an African Summit Conference to urge a dialogue with Sou

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The first Black SA newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion), is published in King William’s Town with Tengo Jabavu as editor

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The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October

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A river of fire ignited by an oil tank explosion surges through a village in southern Egypt, killing more than 410 people.

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Dr Sibusiso Bengu, former minister of education, warns the University of Stellenbosch that it could not continue being an exclu

The mutilated body of Sidwell Nonno (32), SARHWU shop steward, victim of an alleged political assassination, is find in Langa,

Kamal el-Mallakh, an Antiquities Service inspector at the Great Pyramid Giza, discovers Khufu’s (Cheops) boat. It will be more

Algerian government cancels second round of voting in parliamentary elections that an Islamic party looks set to win. The Islam

Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near

Jabulani Sibisi, Joseph Mthembu, Sifiso Nxumalo and Nkosinthi Thenjekwayo, all ANC members, are shot dead in an ambush near Pie

The Naledi branch of the SA Students Movement holds a meeting, attended by representatives of all Soweto schools, at which it i

The health department slams the SA National Blood Service for revealing that Mbeki’s blood had been rejected because he decline

Headman Tshabalala, SA singer and founder member of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen

Twenty-nine (numbers differ, according to the police nineteen) people are killed in an attack by police on election protestors

Flight 139, an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens on 26 June, arrives at Entebbe, Uganda. Hijackers demand release o

Germany rejects Britain’s call to effectively double aid for some of the world’s poorest countries, an adviser to Chancellor Ge

The Chairman of Armscor announces that under an agreement with a French aviation company, Mirage III and F jet fighters will be

Dr William Guybon Atherstone (84), medical practitioner and scientist who was probably the first to use an anaesthetic in any B

It is alleged that Pres. Mandela concluded a transaction of R2,7 billion with Col. Muammar Gaddafi, promising weapons from SA i

The Star newspaper mentions that hundreds of Black people are leaving the Witwatersrand, especially for Natal, and calls it an

Hendrik Hop, leader of an expedition to the north of the Orange River, is born in the district of Paarl.

The first completely SA built aeroplane is flown by John Weston in Kimberley. He establishing a South African non-stop flight r

The Scot arrives in Southampton, four days after Barney Barnato was drowned near Madeira. An immediate inquest into his dea

Marches organised by the African National Congress, SA Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions are held

The SA defence force attacks alleged ANC homes and offices in Gaborone, Botswana, in Operation Plecksy. Twelve or thirteen peop

Barend Hendrik Strydom, a former right-wing member, massacres seven Blacks and an Indian and wounds sixteen in Pretoria city ce

Grintek of SA, Saab of Sweden and British aerospace sign a historic contract for supplying military equipment worth about R60 m

SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death. The sentence was later

Former defence minister Magnus Malan joins former SA Defence Force chief Constand Viljoen in denying any knowledge of mass grav

Over 600 people killed in Liberia in an unsuccessful military coup against President Samuel Doe, led by former Brigadier-Genera

President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast announces he is planning an African Summit Conference to urge a dialogue with Sou

The first Black SA newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion), is published in King William’s Town with Tengo Jabavu as editor

The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October

A river of fire ignited by an oil tank explosion surges through a village in southern Egypt, killing more than 410 people.