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Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi fires his vice president, George Saitoti, in an apparent effort to quash dissent in his ruling
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Morocco’s King Hassan II escapes unhurt when an airliner carrying him to Rabat is fired on by Moroccan Air Force pilots.
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An American Lear jet, on its way to Johannesburg for repair, is shot down over Eritrea by Ethiopia, killing two people.
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Algeria closes its border with Morocco in an escalating dispute over the arrest of two Algerians accused of plotting to attack
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The National Security Act No 13 comes into effect in SA. Providing for detention without trial, banning of individuals and ou
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The Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, to which SA is a party, is signed in
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Personnel of the SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron leave Durban to assist the United Nations in the Korean War.
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Robert Godlonton, SA author, newspaper editor and champion for rights of the settlers on the eastern border of the Cape Colony,
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The SA government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign. The date is given as 24 August 1988 in the following sources: Sout
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The SA government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign. The date is given as 24 August 1988 in the following sources: Sout
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The State President Dr. Nicolaas J. Diederichs dies of a heart attack in Cape Town. Following an earlier heart attack on 12 Aug
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Two boys, aged ten and fourteen, die near Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape, after picking up an explosive device they found while hunt
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An Anglo-French plan to give Italy economic concessions if they renounce their claims for Ethiopia are rejected by Italy during
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The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W
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The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W
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An electoral alliance is announced between the United Party (UP) and the National Union (NU) in Bloemfontein, in a form of a ni
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Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did a lot of research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris.
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An electoral alliance is announced between the United Party (UP) and the National Union (NU) in Bloemfontein, in a form of a ni
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An electoral alliance is announced between the United Party (UP) and the National Union (NU) in Bloemfontein, in a form of a ni
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The South African Air Force’s newest addition, the Gripen fighter jet, takes its first flight around Cape Town, causing an ear-
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Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, gives an assurance that the six refugees will not be required to leave the consu
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The SA High Commission in Botswana, in collaboration with the business community of the area, hosts the first-ever South Africa
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The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) sign an agreement on wages and working conditions averting the
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ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela warns that if the SA government fails to take effective steps to end the current violence i
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Beyers Naude (89), an Afrikaner cleric who became one of the most important moral voices of the anti-apartheid movement, passes
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The Prime Minister again meets Coloured leaders in Cape Town in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the government’s Coloured p
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An inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale, who had died in custody in Johannesburg Security Police headquarters in August 1982
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At least four policemen are apparently arrested and questioned about a burglary last week from the safes of the SAPS serious an
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Dr Azar Paul Jammine, businessman and director of several companies, is born in Alexandria, Egypt. He arrived in SA in 1950.
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