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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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By this deadline for the receipt of applications for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission almost 8,000 applicatio
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Christiaan Frederick Beyers Naude, who resigned as moderator of the Southern Transvaal Dutch Reformed Synod to take up the posi
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Dr. Jon Lewis, British editor of the South African Labour Bulletin is told to leave the country within thirty days.
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The South African government decides to finance the first phase of the construction of a new railway line between Southern Mala
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The Industrial Conciliation Act empowers the Minister of Labour to reserve any job on a racial basis and orders the dissolution
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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow
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Cornelis Goover and twenty-four men land at Warwijk’s Haven, Mauritius, to establish a Dutch settlement on the island. Their ta
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Apla claims responsibility for the murder of four police officers at Dobsonville, Soweto, bringing police deaths in the year to
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Addressing a joint sitting of two houses of the British Parliament, ANC president Nelson Mandela urges Britain to invest in Sou
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General Law Amendment Act No 37 commences. Section 17, the ninety-day detention law, authorises any commissioned officer to det
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Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan
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An airliner carrying seventy-nine people crashes into residential blocks as it prepares to land at Nigeria’s Kano airport, kill
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Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan
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Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan
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Nine people are killed at Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) during a stampede to attend a mass given by Pope J
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Prime Minister Vorster announces that Robert Sobukwe has been taken to Robben Island, where he will be detained indefinitely in
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Marius Phillip Olivier Burgers (53), dies of a heart attack while recording a tribute to the late Pieter de Waal, SA broadcaste
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Marius Phillip Olivier Burgers (53), dies of a heart attack while recording a tribute to the late Pieter de Waal, SA broadcaste
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The SA 6th Division crosses Brenta River and is then redirected to Milan in Italy in World War II.
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The first Thirstland Trek, exodus of Boer families through Northern Bechuanaland to Angola that started in 1874 under the lea
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South Africa, Cuba, Angola and the United States announce they are to attend a settlement conference on Angola and Namibia in B
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Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem
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Heads of State or their senior representatives from 44 African countries gather in Abuja, Nigeria to deliberate on the problem
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Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa’s United African National Council has won fifty-one of the seventy-two seats available to Black candida
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Walus, the assassins of SA Communist Pa
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South African Airways suspends flights to Angola after an SAA aircraft was struck by bullets on approaching that country’s Crav
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Bechuanaland (now Botswana) nationalist leader (and ex-Ngwato chief), Seretse Khama, is denied permission to see his wife by Br
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Sir Bartle Frere meets the Transvaal Boers assembled in support of their claim to independence. He promises them complete freed
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