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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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Opening parliament, President Botha announces that government intends giving Blacks such as those living outside their designat
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At least 100 people drown and the town is devastated when the river at Laingsburg in the Karoo floods its banks.
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A bank and twenty-five hostages are seized in Silverton, Pretoria. Two of the hostages die; several are injured; all three ANC
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A group of clergymen of seven Christian churches including the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Methodist churches calling themselv
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General Idi Amin Dada takes power in Uganda by military coup while the existing president, Milton Obote, is at a Commonwealth m
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Abram Fischer, Q.C., standing trial under the Suppression of Communism Act, fails to arrive in court, forfeits his bail and dis
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African heads of state of the Monrovia Group, which includes Liberia, Togo, Nigeria and Cameroon, issue charter for Pan-African
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The Automobile Association of South Africa (AA) is established in Port Elizabeth.
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WWI: At the end of the war, the Paris Peace Conference accepts the proposal to create the League of Nations. The League was eve
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The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk’ starts its own training of ministers at the then Transvaal University College, with dr J.H.J.
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Mohandas Ghandi finally reaches an agreement with the South African Union government over rights of Indian nationals (voluntary
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Robey Leibbrandt, Olympic boxer and staunch supporter of the Ossewabrandwag (an Afrikaner patriotic movement), is born in Potch
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Three leaders from the IFP, Frank Malalose, national chairman and the Premier of Kwazulu-Natal, Ziba Jiyane, Secretary-General
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses the Africa Cup of Nations Group A game versus Egypt 0-1at the FNB Stadium, Johannesbur
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President Mandela arrives in Delhi, India, as chief guest at Republic Day.
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Three Somalis are killed and at least five are wounded in clashes with troops of a US-led coalition trying to safeguard efforts
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Matilda Ndlela, ANC, is killed by alleged hit squads in Esikhaweni, Natal.
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