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Egypt demands the Soviet Union remove its 20,000 advisers from the country, accusing it of failing to supply promised arms.
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The SA Minister of Finance attacks the United States and other former ‘gold pool’ countries for attempting to reduce the moneta
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Elder statesman Nelson Mandela says he could not receive a better birthday gift the next day than a commitment by the world to
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An agreement to restore peace in Liberia is reached by the warring factions, whose accord includes a cease-fire, an interim gov
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Lieutenant C.D. Kimber, son of the Lord Mayor of London, is killed while attempting to rescue a wounded soldie
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Bernard Mafiyeka, NUMSA shop steward, is gunned down by one of a group of four men as he is walking to work.
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Chamber of Commerce and Industry of USSR and South African Chamber of Mines sign an agreement to promote exchange of informatio
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When Albertina marries Walter Sisulu, Anton Lembede warns her that she is marrying a man who is already married to the nation.
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The UN Security Council urges the world to aid the estimated 250 000 Hutu refugees from Rwanda crushed into Goma, Zaire.
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Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee grants the “Sharpeville Six” an indefinite stay of execution. He says the move is to afford them
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ADDRESS TO THE UNITED NATIONS: Statement at a Special Meeting of the UN Special Committee against Apartheid, New York, June 22, 1990
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Address to the Joint Session of the Houses of Congress of the United States of America: Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
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Anglo-Boer War 2: When W.J.C. Brebner reports the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging (surrender to the British after the Angl
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Former President F.W. de Klerk undergoes surgery for the removal of a tumour, which a few days later proved to have been malign
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A resolution to expel South Africa from the Universal Postal Union is approved by the Union’s congress in Vienna, by fifty-eigh
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Twelve Mdantsane men are sentenced to death on each of five counts of murder after being found guilty without extenuating circu
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Dr. Renfrew Christie, an academic and former student leader at the University of Cape Town, is sentenced to ten years imprisonm
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Train apartheid is scrapped in the Western Cape as the first part of a plan to eliminate discrimination on trains throughout th
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South African Airways is given permission to fly over the bulge of Africa for the first time in twenty-eight years.
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Report of a Deputation from the ANC to the Deputy Prime Minister and Others on March 4, 1942, by Dr. A.B. Xuma [n.d.]
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Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized in Zimbabwe by squatters and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign to reclaim
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The Minister of Justice announces that detainees held under security laws will soon be allowed to have monthly visits from doct
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SA signs agreement with the government of Namibia relating to the promotion of co-operation in the field of administration of j
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Seven Africans are detained in the Transkei on an allegation of conspiracy to commit murder. Five are opposition members of the
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A total of 21 000 driving licences will have to be cancelled after a former Limpopo traffic officer, M.S. Pela, appears in cour
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Fietas, Johannesburg: The area is officially named Pageview in honour of the then Mayor of Johannesburg, Mr. J.J. Page. Up to t
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The fifteenth Annual Conference of the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) alters its constitution in such a way as to
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Government announces ninety-nine year leasehold rights for Blacks in three Cape Town townships in order to stop the riots over
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A South African flag is torn to pieces and three Springbok lifesavers are attacked during a near-riot at the Melbourne ocean su
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