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Zairian soldiers begin to police Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire as part of a UN peacekeeping operation.
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Nineteen political parties have registered for the forthcoming April 1994 general election.
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President Didier Ratsiraka of Madagascar is voted out after seventeen years in office.
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Exchange of notes with Namibia takes place. It concerns formal school and technical college instructional programmes and the pe
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The SA government and the ANC agree to a plan which will lead to Black majority rule by 1999. In 1994 a parliament of 400 m
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Community and sports leader Hassan Howa dies. The government posthumously bestowed a presidential medal on him in 1998.
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Libya refuses to hand over the accused in the Lockerbie air disaster.
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Following a twelve-hour meeting in Cape Town between President de Klerk and ANC Deputy-President Nelson Mandela, they announce
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African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets the world’s press at the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Tow
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The Vatican issues a report, "The Church and Racism", in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic fo
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The student activists Porta Shabangu, Thabo Mohale and Derrick Mashobane are ambushed and shot in Swaziland by a Vlakplaas divi
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Seventy-six people are injured in an explosion at the offices of the Administration Board of the Free State in Bloemfontein.
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The Quail Commission, who examined the question of the feasibility of independence of the Ciskei at the request of the Ciskei g
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Nationalist guerrillas in Rhodesia shoot down an Air Rhodesia airliner with a missile, killing fifty-nine people.
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The State Security Council (SSC) approves guidelines for the conducting of military operations against liberation movements in
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The report of the Snyman Commission into the disturbances on the campus of the University of the North at Turfloop, finds that
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Dr Albertus Daniel Keet (83), poet of the first Afrikaans love poems, dies in Senekal, Orange Free State.
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Israeli air raid on scrap metal plant in Egypt kills seventy civilians.
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A proclamation applies a section of the Group Areas Act to all public places of recreation, including sporting events, theatres
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The Rev. T.C. Esterhuysen (Oom Essie, 66), missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church, dies.
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Britain and Egypt sign new treaty, according to which Sudan is to have independence within three years.
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Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, is freed from prison.
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leader, Hassan el Banna, is shot to death – probably by the Egyptian government’s security branch.
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The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference decides to prepare to resist. It also decides to send delegations to India,
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Tshikudo Paul Tavhana (also Thavhana), S.A carver and sculptor, is born in Dzanani, Limpopo.
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Howard Carter examines the remains of Tutankamen when the lid of the sarcophagus is lifted for the first time in 3,300 years.
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German East Africa Company is chartered.
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The Rev. Frans Lion Cachet founds Ermelo.
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A second treaty is signed for the establishment of the border between the Orange Free State and Basutoland.
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