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The country’s first art show opens in Cape Town, with some 500 items on exhibit.
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Hintsa, chief of the Xhosa, is shot, while allegedly trying to escape from the British forces at the start of the 6th frontier
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The Dutch East India Company issues an order that the statutes of India are to be followed strictly in the Cape.
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South Africa’s acclaimed Soweto Gospel Choir under direction of David Mulovhedzi and Beverly Bryer win in the Best Traditiona
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President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech coincides with another great moment in South Africa’s history the freeing of
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A new SABC/Markinor survey released in Johannesburg discloses that nine out of ten South Africans have cited unemployment and j
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The Nelson Mandela Museum is opened. It is being developed as a single component comprising three elements, namely a museum in
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In South Africa it is reported that at least nineteen people have died and twelve are feared drowned after torrential rains hit
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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Cote d’Ivoure ends in a tie with one goal scored on each side.
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Powerful car bombs kill seventeen people and wound ninety-three in Algiers.
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A Somali gunman hijacks a Lufthansa Airbus over Austria with 104 people aboard and orders it flown to New York, where he surren
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SA signs agreement with Namibia regarding standards of livestock breeding and the importation of breeding animals, semen, ova o
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The South African Defence Force (SADF) admits the existence of a secret unit called the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB), which
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Ten people are killed when Ciskei soldiers use force against a group revellers celebrating Nelson Mandel’s release in Mdantsane
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Nelson Mandela is released from prison after twenty-seven years.
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A delegation of four members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, led by Dr Nico Smith, talks with the ANC in Lusaka, Zambia
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With the return of President Lucas Mangope to office after the short-lived coup, students at the University of Bophuthatswana d
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Jim Msebenzi Mahlangu, headman of Tweefontein, disappears. He was last seen in a white E20 combi at 152 Tweefontein.
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A call for a thirty-minute work stoppage, in protest against the death of Dr. Aggett, is supported by virtually all independent
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Lieutenant-Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam becomes Ethiopia’s head of state. Mengistu, head of the Provisional Armed Forces Commi
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The appointment of South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States, R.F. ‘Pik’ Botha, as the country’s next foreign minister, is
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The two-day visit of Prime Minister Vorster to Liberia for talks with President Tolbert starts.
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A second report by the Commission of Inquiry, under the chairmanship of Justice Van Wyk de Vries, appointed in 1968 to investig
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A Rhodesian government spokesman announces that elements of the South African police are withdrawing from certain forward posit
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The House of Assembly approves, by eighty-six votes to forty-three, a motion to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into and
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A delegation from Mauritius arrives in Cape Town to discuss ways of strengthening links between Mauritius and South Africa.
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Four former National Party members join the newly formed Herstigte Nasionale Party.
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Part of District Six is proclaimed as a White group area. New Coloured residential areas will be established on the Cape Flat
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Nineteen miners are killed in a Reef mineshaft accident.
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