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Bloodshed, looting and destruction ensue when thousands of street hawkers, marching through central Johannesburg protesting aga
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Bloodshed, looting and destruction ensue when thousands of street hawkers, marching through central Johannesburg protesting aga
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The SA rugby team loses 5-11 against New Zealand in Auckland and also loses the series 1-3.
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Nakedi Mathews Phosa, former premier of Mpumalanga and Afrikaans poet, is born in Mbombela township, Nelspruit.
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An explosion in a market in Algiers, Algeria kills at least seventeen people and wounds approximately 60.
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A car bomb explodes in a crowded square outside Algeria’s national police headquarters, killing 10 and injuring 15.
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Dr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt by the Pretoria Supreme Court.
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President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria as violence spread to Soweto.
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Law and Order Minister Hernus Kriel announced "sweeping initiatives" aimed at "restoring the credibility of the
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Twelve Blacks are shot dead by police in Soweto, and a town councillor is hacked to death.
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W. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, Pan-Africanist activist and founder of the NAACP, dies in Accra, Ghana.
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Breakthrough reached at peace talks in Kenya between Sudanese government and the SPLA over key issues.
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The Coloured Persons’ Representative Council (CPRC) decides to reject the government’s constitutional proposals and call for a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Brigadier-General Stephenson occupies Nelspruit without opposition and Lord Roberts transfers his headquarter
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant-General Louis Botha and General Cheere Emmett join forces to invade Natal.
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Beauclerk Upington, advocate, politician, yachtsman and president of the South African Football (Soccer) Association (1913-22),
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Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, is born in Cape Town.
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Thirty-five people are killed in fighting between pro-Inkatha hostel-dwellers and residents in Soweto.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu defies public protest laws and leads 120 demonstrators in an anti-apartheid march.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu defies public protest laws and leads 120 demonstrators in an anti-apartheid march.
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Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress, who combined politics
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The government launches "Operation Iron Fist", imposing curfews, roadblocks, house-to-house searches and fencing off
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Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress, who combined politics
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A German Tupolef plane and an American Starlifter collide off the Namibian coast, killing thirty-three people.
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Egypt and Saudi Arabia announce agreement of peaceful settlement of two-year-old Yemeni civil war.
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Fire breaks out in the Pembroke Castle in Cape Town docks and ten lives are lost.
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Jan F.E. Cilliers (70), SA poet of “Die Vlakte” and other poems, dies in Harrismith, OFS.
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South Africa joins the Non-Aligned Movement and signs an agreement establishing diplomatic relations with Iceland.
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Dr. Walter Rubusana (African) and Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman (Coloured) are elected to the Cape Provincial Council.
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