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Dr Mohammed Moosa Motala, medical practitioner, political activist and SA ambassador in Morocco from 1996 to 1999, dies in Piet
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The President’s Council says 3.3 million workers in the country are unemployed and urges the government to embark on a developm
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The light aeroplane, in which the young singer Gwynneth Ashley Robin and five orchestra members are travelling to a concert, cr
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Ethiopia’s military strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam steps down and flies to exile in Zimbabwe after fourteen years of brutal ru
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Ethiopia’s military strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam steps down and flies to exile in Zimbabwe after fourteen years of brutal ru
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The Cape Town railway line is blown up near Port Elizabeth in what is believed to be an ANC attack.
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The Cape Town railway line is blown up near Port Elizabeth in what is believed to be an ANC attack.
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General Henri Lorillot is sent by the French premier, Pierre Pfimlim, to negotiate with General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-C
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General Henri Lorillot is sent by the French premier, Pierre Pfimlim, to negotiate with General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-C
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Bambata Rebellion: A message is received from Sigananda informing Col McKenzie that he wishes to surrender in Nkandla, as he wa
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The US expels the South African military attaché in response to raids by South African forces into Botswana, Zambia, and
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The Fort Klapperkop military museum, Pretoria, mainly illustrating the period from the Great Trek to 1902, is opened by Preside
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India asks its High Commissioner in South Africa, Ramrao Madhavrao Deshmukh, to return for consultations. He sails for India th
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British soldiers are called out in Alexandria to restore order after riots by nationalists. The riots follow the departure of a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops arrive at the Renoster River only to find that the Boers have destroyed the bridge.
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Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC, is elected chairman of the Constituent Assembly, which is to write a new constit
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Progressive Party in South Africa announces his formal opposition to the South African
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The secretary of the United Democratic Front in the Border, Makhenkesi Stofile, is sentenced to an effective eleven years’ impr
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Sir Christopher Joseph Quinton Brand, aviation pioneer who completed the first flight from London to Cape Town with Sir Pierre
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It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.
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The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta
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The United Nations conference on poverty announces the launch of the World Trade University, a new university to give the world
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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi
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240 Mobil workers in the Transvaal strike in protest against Mobil’s alleged failure to negotiate with them over intended disin
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The Soweto City Council serves notices on Winnie Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Nthato Motlana and Ellen Kuzwayo to pay their rent
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Thousands of Liberian war refugees, many ill after a week at sea, are refused admission to the Ghanaian port of Takoradi.
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The Official Secrets Act Amendment Bill is passed. It is designed to prevent the publication of information, which would hamper
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The district of Albert (Burgersdorp), submits a petition to parliament in which the use of Dutch, jointly with English, is requ
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An ANC delegation, led by Deputy President Mbeki, makes the party’s second major submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Com
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