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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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An earthquake, registering 4,8 on the Richter Scale hits Welkom, trapping 969 miners sixteen hours underground. All but two are
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Seventeen Greek tourists and an Egyptian tour guide are killed by gunmen in Cairo. Another fifteen are injured, three criticall
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Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in Alexandra, PWV, in an alleged political murder.
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Maggie Laubser, SA painter and receiver of several awards, is born on the farm Bloublommetjieskloof in the district of Malmesbu
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A Zimbabwe court rules that the government and police must bring an end to Black squatters’ occupations of White-owned farms.
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Judge Marthinus Theunis Steyn (Theunie) (77), SA judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa (Nami
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Molton Paseka Ncholo, executive chairman of Khumo Bathong Holdings and member of the board of the SA Mining Development Associa
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Dr Mohammed Moosa Motala, medical practitioner, political activist and SA ambassador in Morocco from 1996 to 1999, dies in Piet
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The Cape Town railway line is blown up near Port Elizabeth in what is believed to be an ANC attack.
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The Cape Town railway line is blown up near Port Elizabeth in what is believed to be an ANC attack.
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In an interview with the Financial Times (London), President F.W. de Klerk insists that power sharing between the country’s mai
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The secretary of the United Democratic Front in the Border, Makhenkesi Stofile, is sentenced to an effective eleven years’ impr
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Several ANC sabotage attacks take place: guerrillas attack an East London police station; sections of railway line are blown up
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In Sudan Ja’far Muhammad an-Numeiry, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council overthrows the government of Ismail al-A
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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the
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Neal Stephenson, SA champion body board surfer, loses his leg in a shark attack at Keurbooms River, near Plettenberg Bay, Weste
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The new Labour Appeal Court delivers its first ruling, overriding an unfair labour practise ruling against Ergo in November 198
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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi
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An ANC delegation, led by Deputy President Mbeki, makes the party’s second major submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Com
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The Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, tells Parliament that nearly 700 terrorists were arrested in 1977 an
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Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician and Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, die
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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the
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An International Commission of Jurists report alleges the widespread use of force and torture by security forces on anti-aparth
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