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As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe
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As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, with Lucas Radebe replacing Neil Tovey as captain, wins 2-1 against the former Zaire in a Wo
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August Friedrich Beutler, official of the Dutch East Indies Company and scout of the interior of SA, is born in Dinkelsbühl, G
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Ahmad `Ali al-Mirghani, the Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese People’s Forces, ousts Sudanese president Ja’far Muhammad an-Num
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Algerian Ahmed Ressam is convicted of terrorism for bringing a car loaded with explosives into the United States as part of an
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IFP decides to end its parliamentary boycott of mid-February. The party gives an ultimatum that it will boycott the Constituent
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The ANC presents an ultimatum which includes demands for the firing of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister
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The shipwrecked sailors of the Nieuw-Haerlem leave the Cape with W.G. de Jongh after an enforced stay of nearly a year.
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The Star reports that independent African churches are the largest single group of churches in SA, accounting for a fifth of al
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In an interim report, the Erasmus Commission exonerates P.W. Botha and all members of his government from having had any prior
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The New National Norms and Standards for School Funding are implemented in SA, aimed at achieving equity in the distribution of
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The New National Norms and Standards for School Funding are implemented in SA, aimed at achieving equity in the distribution of
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The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote
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In the worst bus accident in SA history, a school bus with seventy-six learners of Hoërskool Vorentoe plunges into the Westden
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South Africa’s tour of the British Isles finishes on an upbeat note as Jake White’s experimental young side takes Scotland apar
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Prison authorities release thirty-four of the forty-two mercenaries involved in the hijacking of an Air India plane after the a
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The Free State cricket team achieves the highest fourth innings ever in SA provincial cricket by scoring 443/4 against Natal Do
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Meshack Mogale (16), dies in police custody after being arrested at a night vigil for an unrest victim. He was allegedly kicked
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The P.K. le Roux Dam (now Vanderkloof Dam), an integral part of the Orange River development project to provide electric power,
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In a move set to keep SA and Africa on the European Union’s (EU’s) radar screen, President Thabo Mbeki leads a top delegation o
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News 24 reports that an outbreak of Ebola virus in north-western Republic of Congo has killed 5 000 gorillas, helping to
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The International Convention on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, to which SA is a party, is signed in Paris, France.
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The General Assembly of the UN adopts a resolution, initiated by SA, on ‘The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict’ by consensu
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Six South Africans and three Lesotho nationals are killed in an attack for which the renegade Lesotho Liberation Army claims re
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Fikile Magadledla, SA artist, co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, illustrator of several books and writer of poetry to ac
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Balthazar Johannes (John) Vorster, premier (1966-1978) and state president (1978-1979) of SA, is born in the district of Jamest
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The Mozambique Convention, an agreement between the ZAR and Portugal, paves the way for the construction of the Delagoa Bay rai
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In an open letter to the government, financial services group PSG comes out in support of First National Bank’s (FNB) aborted c
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