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Ten mineworkers are killed in fighting between two rival groups at a hostel at Vaal Reefs Mine.
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French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.
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Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).
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Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).
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At the opening of Parliament, President F.W. de Klerk warns that South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war i
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Nelson Mandela, deputy-president of the ANC, and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha, meet for the first time in thirty years. They
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Linda Brakvis of Heldemoed, OFS, UDF member, is found stabbed three days after release from detention.
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Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup
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Petrus Jacobus (Pietie) le Roux, leader of the “Stellenbosch-boerorkes”, dies.
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Britain imposes a complete trade ban on Rhodesia.
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The Durban College of Education is started in the backyard of the Durban Girls’ High School.
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The first violence caused by apartheid occurs in Johannesburg.
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WW2: German and Italian forces take Benghazi, Libya.
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The Reunited National Party (Herenigde Nasionale Party of Volksparty) is founded by the followers of D.F. Malan and J.B.M. Hert
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Brassmen attack Royal Niger Company’s station at Akassa, West Africa, and kill and eat forty-three captives. Christian chiefs o
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Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, national co-ordinator of The Gift Of The Givers Foundation, announces in Johannesburg that the foundation i
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A plane brings nineteen sick and weak-looking adolescents home to Uganda after months or possibly years -of captivity under Uga
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Nine people are hurt in an explosion in front of the Cape-Central police offices (previously Caledon Plain).
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In Algiers, an assassin shoots and kills the leader of Algeria’s largest labour union a key presidential ally and an opponent o
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission confirms newspaper reports that five former security police officers have confessed to
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President Mandela meets United States black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam. Both state their opposi
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In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k
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SA signs joint communiqué concerning the development of bilateral relations with Jordan.
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Troops in Zaire run riot, killing the French Ambassador.
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Leadership of National Liberation Front, which won Algeria’s independence and ruled for three decades, resigns.
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Eugene Terre Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and nine other members are arrested for staging a riot o
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The ANC announces that it has given President de Klerk a list of police officers believed to have participated in township viol
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Mthunzi Njakazi, ANC member of Durban, is shot dead on street.
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Farmers march in protest through Pretoria streets and disrupt traffic.
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