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Comdt Louw Wepener (53) is killed in combat during an attack on Moshesh at Thaba Bosigo in the Free State.
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In an important break-through a National Peace Accord is signed by all major political organisations at a conference held at th
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An agreement is signed by several role-players, including the Minister of Land Affairs, Derek Hanekom, to redevelop District Si
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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) declines an invitation by the Durban Mayor’s office to enable members of the Indian community t
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In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria reply that Johannesburg is named after Johann Friedrich Bernhard Rissik and Ch
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The SA rugby team loses the third test against the British Isles 16-21 in Newlands, but wins the series 2-1.
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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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Hansie Cronje (32), former SA cricket captain, is killed when a light plane in which he was travelling crashes into a mountain
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Ezrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae, SA artist, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. He studied at the Polly Street and Jubilee Art
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J.F. (Tom) Naudé (80), member of cabinet and acting SA state president in 1967 and 1968, dies in Cape Town.
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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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