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Judge Johann Kriegler, chairman of the Independent Election Commission, resigns after allegations of tension between the Commis
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SA signs joint communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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Rebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishuh.
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The Star reports that a SARWHU shop steward, who went on a thirty-three-day hunger strike to back his demand either to be charg
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The National Resistance Army takes over the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
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The South African Indian Council (SAIC) calls for a referendum in the Indian community on the acceptability of the Constitution
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At a special press conference it is announced that a senior South African naval officer, commanding Simonstown dockyard, Commod
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Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
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Dr Jan Bouws, Dutch and SA musicologist and composer, dies in Tygerberg, Cape Town.
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Amnesty International’s detailed report on human rights violations in South Africa is banned.
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Egypt is placed under martial law in response to wide-spread riots against the British.
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De Villiers Bester Lamprecht, the first South African to complete the mile in less than four minutes, is born in Prince Albert.
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A heat wave hits South Africa and temperatures soar in places to up to 44,4 Centigrade.
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Elza Dziomba, S.A sculptor, is born in Dt’Eylau, West Prussia, Germany. He died in 1970, in Johannesburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Ben Viljoen and seven men are ambushed and captured by the British. His pocket book saves his life b
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Gen. Christiaan de Wet, accompanied by pres. M.T. Steyn, starts his journey at Doornberg, near Winburg, to invade the Cape Colo
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The oldest South African college of education and the biggest in the Cape Province, the Wellington College of Education, is ope
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The Mahdist forces take Khartoum in Sudan after a nine-month siege and slaughter most inhabitants and the British garrison, inc
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Frederick Wells, an official of the Premier Diamond Company, finds the Cullinan diamond, the largest diamond ever found.
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The first Oscar nomination for a South African film, Yesterday, a drama about a woman in a rural village who discovers she is H
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King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho regains his throne.
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SA signs treaty of the principles of inter-state relations with India.
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SA signs protocol on cooperation between the Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa and the Ministry of External Affairs
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SA signs agreement with the government of India on the inter-governmental Joint Commission for Political Trade, Economic, Cultu
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Extracts of a document written by Nelson Mandela in anticipation of a meeting with President P.W. Botha in the beginning of 198
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Minister of Manpower and Public Works, Pietie du Plessis, resigns over a financial scandal involving his department and a compa
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Gazankulu homeland holds elections for members of its legislative assembly, which has forty-three elected and forty-three nomin
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Sicelo Godfrey Dhlomo, Detainees’ Parents Support Committee, Soweto, is abducted and found shot dead.
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Sixty ANC refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho to counter South Africa’s threat of a blockade against that country.
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