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… In a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament it is unanimously agreed to re-entrench the language rights in the constitution …

… A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in …

… F.B. Deemin, a gold digger of Johannesburg, is hanged in Australia for murdering his first wife and casting her in a cement blo …

… Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa. …

… During the official gala dinner in Windhoek, Namibia, in honour of Robert Mugabe, he hails his land and …

… Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized in Zimbabwe by squatters and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign to reclaim …

… The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses against Egypt in the final game of the Africa Nations Cup in Burkina Faso. …

… In an attack described by Mukesh Kapila, top official of the UN in Sudan, government-allied militia (known as Janjawiet), rape …

… Daniel Sefundi (Dan) Rakgoathe, SA artist, is born in Randfontein, Transvaal.   He was the first full-time student in the fin …

… announces ninety-nine year leasehold rights for Blacks in three Cape Town townships in order to stop the riots over …

… The first verdict in Afrikaans is brought in Cape Town by the English speaking Judge R.P.B. Davies. …

… out on a crowded train travelling from Cairo to Luxor in southern Egypt, killing 373 people and injuring sixty in …

… of seventeen year old stowaway, Samuel Benjamin, found in the wheel-well of a British Airways aircraft in Los Angeles …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 268. … Fifteen people are killed in an attack on youth volunteers for an ANC voter education workshop in Mahlele, Creighton, Natal, pr …

… socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in …

… Former State President P.W. Botha appears in court in George because of his refusal to testify before the Truth …

… In the House of Assembly, twelve new nominated members are sworn in. They include Professor Owen Horwood, former Leader of the …

… For the fifth time in a row a South African driver has won the Rotax Grand Final World karting championship in Lanzarote, Canar …

… reveals multi-million rand frauds and irregularities in the film in …

… by the name of Koch discovers a vaccine successful in the prevention of , an animal disease that caused an in most …

… alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing in New York, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. Th …

… Up to this date fourteen people have been killed in escalating violence in Venda sparked by allegations of ritual killings and …

… of Race Relations indicate a fall of twenty per cent in political trials in 197 …

… Dr D.F.Malherbe is appointed as professor in modern languages at the Grey University College in Bloemfontein at the request of …

… In an open letter to the government, financial services group PSG comes out in support of First National Bank’s (FNB) aborted c …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. … Twelve people, nine women and three children, are killed in a pre-dawn attack by a group of unknown people in Masunkazane, Rich …

… The prime minister states in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that the United Nations general-secretary, Dr. …

… A car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing at least twenty people and injuring about sixty in the worst bombing during a three-yea …

… Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, dies in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organise …

… Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, SA sculptor is born in Plungian, Lithuania.  His father emigrated to SA in 1904 and was joined …