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In response to Pretoria’s failure to meet the 30 April deadline, 364 political prisoners throughout South Africa start an indef
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The SA government prohibits Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall because Black children sing it as a song of liberty.
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An airliner carrying seventy-nine people crashes into residential blocks as it prepares to land at Nigeria’s Kano airport, kill
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The SA government announces that Gill Marcus, Deputy Minister of Finance, will succeed retiring Chris de Swart as Vice-Presiden
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The SA government announces that Gill Marcus, Deputy Minister of Finance, will succeed retiring Chris de Swart as Vice-Presiden
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Marius Phillip Olivier Burgers (53), dies of a heart attack while recording a tribute to the late Pieter de Waal, SA broadcaste
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The SA government announces that Gill Marcus, Deputy Minister of Finance, will succeed retiring Chris de Swart as Vice-Presiden
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Marius Phillip Olivier Burgers (53), dies of a heart attack while recording a tribute to the late Pieter de Waal, SA broadcaste
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Dumisani Dludla, trade unionist and General Secretary of the United Workers’ Union of SA (UWUSA), is born in Melmoth, Natal.
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The SA 6th Division crosses Brenta River and is then redirected to Milan in Italy in World War II.
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Father Michael Lapsley, a New Zealand-born Anglican priest, loses both hands and an eye in a letter-bomb explosion in Harare. F
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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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F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold an emergency meeting with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Zul
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, the assassins of SA Communist Pa
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Karl Gottlieb Mauch (37), first person to discover gold in SA, dies in poverty in Stuttgart, Germany. His discoveries included
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The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.
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Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, SA anthropologist and consul-general of the Orange Free State, is born in Rotterdam, the Nether
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JARIC, voted best support unit of the SA Air Force 2003, is established as a section of the Central Phototechnical Establishmen
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The United Nations’ General Assembly adopts an eight nation resolution, by seventy-two votes to two, with twenty-seven abstenti
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Frans Lion Cachet (64), pastor in several parts of SA and various denominations, dies in Bergen-op-Zoom, the Netherlands.
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Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f
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Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptian airliner at Malta. An explosion during the assault kills sixty aboard. Two of the de
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Johann Hendrik Lodewyck Schumann, prisoner of war who played an important role on St Helena to encourage musical and cultural a
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Parts of western Johannesburg are plunged into darkness when an electrical sub-station in Hursthill near the Helen Joseph Hospi
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Demonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. and continue on an almost daily basis, as anti-apart
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Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Fanie) Eloff (62), first notable sculptor born in SA and grandson of Paul Kruger, dies in Pretoria.
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The BBC reports an animal airlift is planned for the Congo. The airlift will take chimpanzees to Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage
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The three Zimbabwean intelligence officers standing trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house in Bulawayo are sentenced to death.
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Palestinian students storm the Egyptian embassy in Athens, and an embassy in Beirut comes under rocket attack as protests sprea
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