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Opening address to the Law Society of the Transvaal delivered by the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela 29 October 1993
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In providing reasons for the decision of the Pretoria High Court to set the investigation of the Browde Commission into SARFU A
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Six Fijian rugby players and a radio commentator are banned by the Fijian Rugby Union for travelling to South Africa. The seven
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President Mandela confirms that Sol Kerzner did indeed make the contribution to the ANC electoral funds as alleged by Bantu Hlo
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The French Minister of State for National Defence confirms the continued supply of French arms to South Africa, except for anti
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Justice Richard Goldstone said that his Commission was ready to carry out a full-scale inquiry into the security forces and pol
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In Bethlehem, OFS, a Black man called Frans is tried by the British, found guilty, sentenced to death and h
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The Security Council adopts resolution 181 calling upon all States to cease the sale and shipment of arms, ammunition and milit
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Three ANC members are sentenced to death for attacks directed against the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the
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Andrew Vusi Fasedemi, businessman and managing director of several companies, is born in Cardiff, Wales. He came in 1994 to Sou
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Joseph Michael Solomon, architect partner of Herbert Baker, commits suicide in Cape Town. He was never to see the final com
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Riots start in Durban townships and continue up to 14 August. Seventy people, police, amabutho and activists, are killed in the
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Queen Mother Elizabeth celebrates her 100th birthday as thousands line the roads of London to cheer her. Her popularity stems i
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Josia Thugwane is the first Black SA athlete to win an Olympic gold medal award by winning the marathon in Atlanta.
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Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u
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Work is stopped at the Kimberley mine after forty-three years when it becomes uneconomical to operate at a depth of 1 083 m.
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Swaziland’s King Mswati III has summoned his 1 million subjects to a gathering at Ludzidzi on August 10, at which he is expecte
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Relations between SA and the USA becomes strained by SA’s announcement that it is going to normalise full diplomatic ties with
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Delegates from some 100 nations agree at the United Nations on a global treaty to prevent over-fishing on the high seas.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts sends his Chief of Staff, Lord Kitchener, to take overall command of the forces engaged agains
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SA signs treaty with the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the visit of the German nuclear-powered vessel Otto Hahn.
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(Sidney) Robey Leibbrandt, SA Olympic boxer in 1936 who was later condemned to death (but reprieved) because of his Nazi sympat
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Archduke Frans Ferdinand, Austrian heir to the throne, and his wife are shot and killed by a student in Sarajevo. This lead
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson, in charge of affairs in Rhodesia, refuses entry to 110 Trekkers of the Adendorff trek, who congregat
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Durban is renamed. Capt. Allen F. Gardiner and fifteen residents decide to re-name the mission station Berea, D’Urban, in honou
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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight
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A spokesman for the World Council of Churches says in Geneva that the government has refused permission for Bishop Zulu to atte
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Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop the hooliganism of Whit
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Electricity comes to Durban when the mayor, Mrs George Payne, pulls a switch and parts of the town are bathed in light.
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