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Racially mixed marriages are banned by Italy in its North African colonies.
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Gen. Johannes (Jan) Gerhardus Celliers (70), initiator of the method to fire in full pursuit during Anglo-Boer War 2, dies.
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Willem Johannes Conradie, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and author of the first Bible told for children in Afrikaans, a
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About 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike.
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First railway train runs on the Cairo to Khartoum line through the Sudan.
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Dr N.M. Hoogenhout, Director of Education in Transvaal, is born in Wellington.
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Eugène Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born in Pretoria.
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A United States military gunship launches air raids against hideouts of prominent members of the al-Qaeda network in southern S
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Media 24 reports that about 75 people have died in Kenya of a hemorrhagic fever called Rift Valley Fever for the past three wee
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A statement released at the ANC’s 93rd anniversary celebrations in Umtata, calls for the transformation of the judiciary and ma
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Britain bans airlines from Albania, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia Tajikistan, Congo and the Cameroons from f
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A new State-owned Information Technology (IT) company, arivia.kom, becomes fully operational as a merger of the IT divisions of
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A cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing 255 people by the official count. The unofficial death
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A press report states the ANC has released a CIA memorandum approved for release under the US Freedom of Information Act, which
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Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo, Nelson Mandela, Helen Joseph, Ahmed Kathrada, Harry Gwala, Elias Motsoaledi, Andrew Mlangeni, Raym
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At its eightieth anniversary celebration in Bloemfontein, the ANC presents its post-apartheid policies and launches its elector
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On its 80th birthday the ANC declares that an interim government of national unity must be set in place and a general election
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Vigilantes, allegedly assisted by Bophuthatswana police, attack the homes of ANC supporters in Braklaagte, killing three people
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Nelson Mandela requests that his wife, Winnie, visit him at Victor Verster Prison, Paarl, to discuss arrangements for his relea
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The ANC announces it will dismantle its guerrilla camps in Angola in support of peace.
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Jacob Polokwane, ANC, is shot dead in his car in Francistown, Botswana.
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ANC president Oliver Tambo, in a speech in Lusaka, rules out negotiations with the SA government and declares 1987 to be “the y
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South African security forces begin withdrawal from southern Angola.
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ANC President Oliver Tambo declares, at a gathering in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the f
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On the 70th anniversary of the formation of the ANC, MK attacks Koeberg nuclear power plant in Cape Town.
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SA signs agreement with Lesotho on issuing of notes and coins.
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Members of the S.A. security force murder Dr Richard Turner at his home in Durban.
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Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near
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Prof. James L.B. Smith (70), who identified the coelacanth, dies in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape.
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