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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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The United Nations urges Rwanda to co-operate with an international tribunal, after the release of genocide suspect Jean-Bosco
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Barend Hendrik Strydom, a former right-wing member, massacres seven Blacks and an Indian and wounds sixteen in Pretoria city ce
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Grintek of SA, Saab of Sweden and British aerospace sign a historic contract for supplying military equipment worth about R60 m
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SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death. The sentence was later
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Theo Gerdener resigns from the National Party on account of his involvement with Action South and Southern Africa (ACASA), an i
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The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopt terms for a truce to end a conflict killing an estimated 1,0
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The health department slams the SA National Blood Service for revealing that Mbeki’s blood had been rejected because he decline
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Headman Tshabalala, SA singer and founder member of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen
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SA signs the following four agreements with the US: economic, technical and related assistance; the program of the Peace Corps
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A bomb explosion, shattering the Johannesburg office of the Department of Foreign Affairs, is the forty-second attack by ANC sa
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The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (as amended), to which SA is a party, is signed in Washington, USA.
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Dr Robert Broom, SA archaeologist and discoverer of the “Mrs Ples” skull at the Sterkfontein Caves, is born in Scotland.
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 3-4 against Uruguay in the Confederations Cup, with Lucas Radebe scoring his first int
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SA signs agreement with Namibia relating to the administration of the judicial system after the incorporation of Walvis Bay int
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SA signs agreement with the UN and the Commission of the European Union concerning the legal status, privileges and immunities
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The General Assembly declares that the South African regime has "no right to represent the people of South Africa" an
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Prisoner Nelson Mandela has the first of three meetings with State President F.W. de Klerk to discuss the future SA.
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A police patrol, out to investigate an assassination attempt in the Transkei, are attacked by a gang of about sixty Poqo member
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Lt.-Col. James Stevenson-Hamilton (Skukuza) (90), British soldier and one of the most famous nature conservationists in SA hist
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Sir Bartle Frere, new British High Commissioner, delivers an ultimatum to Cetewayo, Zulu chief, to disband his army, hand over
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