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In an historic victory, government troops capture the headquarters of UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi in central Angola. Savim
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Black children are admitted to 205 schools previously reserved for Whites only.
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The ANC proposes a major All Party Conference on Constitutional Negotiations, a step welcomed by the government.
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Seven people are killed and about sixty-seven injured when about 800 striking South African Transport Services (SATS) workers,
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A bomb explodes in a major departmental store in the centre of Johannesburg.
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Security police raid English-language newspapers, seizing documents related to an advertisement calling for the legalising of t
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Draft legislation is published giving owners and managers of hotels and restaurants the right to admit Blacks.
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Rhodesia closes its borders with Zambia to try to cut off Black liberation forces.
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France agrees to sell Mirage military jets to revolutionary regime in Libya.
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Gary Teichmann, Springbok rugby captain, is born.
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An estimated 500 people suspected of being rebels have been executed by Congo government forces in Stanleyville in six weeks si
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Building on the Aswan Dam starts in Egypt.
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UN headquarter opens in New York.
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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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