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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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ANC secretary-general Alfred Nzo and SA Communist Party general secretary Joe Slovo address a rally near Soweto. Slovo tells th
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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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