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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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The first Black SA newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion), is published in King William’s Town with Tengo Jabavu as editor
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The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October
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A river of fire ignited by an oil tank explosion surges through a village in southern Egypt, killing more than 410 people.
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Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Afric
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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which SA is a party, is signed in Montego Bay.
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SA signs agreement with the Republic of China concerning the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion
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Prof. Johan Heyns, moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and participant in a panel discussion filmed by an American tel
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Angolan government troops break into Unita rebel-held highlands in an attempt to open a supply corridor to the embattled city o
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Princess Margaret, 71, younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies.
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Henry Smith, an Umlaas Road farmer and popular master, accompanies his workers to Camperdown to pay their taxes. That evening,
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