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President Nelson Mandela delivers his last major address to parliament.
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The SAPS Amenment Act, 1998, providing a legal framework for municipal police services, comes into effect.
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Up to 200 Somali youths hurl rocks at US forces and set tyre barricades ablaze in the belief that American troops shot to death
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Mr Mlungiseleli Venkile and Mr Zwelinjani Tshandu, ANC members, are shot while asleep by unknown gunmen.
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SA signs an agreement with Hungary on the abolition of visa requirements for holders of diplomatic and service passports.
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Precious Chiliza (6), Nkanyiso Sithole (9) and Noluthando Mkhezi (11) are killed when sixteen gunmen open fire on the car of Ab
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Six ANC members are gunned down by a group of men in Folweni, Natal.
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The Goldstone Commission of Inquiry has its first hearing on the South African Defence Force’s involvement in promoting Black o
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Algeria’s president proposes new national constitution, dropping references to socialism and opening the door to a multiparty s
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Addressing several thousand of National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) members at a rally at the University of the Witwatersrand, N
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As the rent boycott continues, The Star suggests that there are four categories of people not paying rent: those refusing to pa
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Paramount chief in KwaNdebele, Chief David Mabhoko, is restricted to his kraal shortly before he was due to address thousands o
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Transkei police kill three men, one of who is Mr Zolile Sangoni, when they fire on the occupants of a car outside Umtata, while
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State President P.W. Botha outlines a new economic policy in his opening of Parliament speech, centred on privatisation, deregu
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Comic Relief is launched to combat famine in Africa.
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha accuses Botswana of harbouring ANC guerrillas.
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Neil Aggett, South African worker’s union leader, commits suicide while in detention, allegedly by hanging himself with a scarf
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Police announce the arrest of a number of Whites in connection with sabotage acts for which the Wit Kommando has claimed respon
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The official opposition Progressive Federal Party refuses to congratulate John Vorster on his appointment as State President on
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The government, for the first time, releases the official list of all detained under the Preventive Detention clause of the Int
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The Defence Amendment Bill, making provision for the employment of South African conscripted troops anywhere outside South Afri
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Dr. Albert Stals (71), SA Minister of Health, dies in Cape Town.
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Speaking to the House of Assembly, SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd states that territorial separation is not the essential part
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In protest against anti-US campaigns in Ghana, the US recalls its ambassador.
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The South African government informs the United Nations Secretary-General that it is unable to agree to a visit by the group of
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A White family is killed in their caravan whilst camping on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei. Forty African
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France’s President Charles de Gaulle calls for independence for Algeria.
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Gamel Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic.
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Joachim Paulus Schönfeldt, SA sculptor, is born in Pretoria.
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