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Winnie Mandela is found guilty on four charges of kidnapping and four of being an accessory after the fact to assault. Co-accus
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Metrorail says more than 400 commuters have been arrested in Pretoria as part of an operation to bring order back to the train
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Zola Budd, noted SA athlete who emigrated to Britain in 1984 to take part in the Los Angeles Olympic Games, announces that she
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A self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the ANC, Olivia Forsyth, who was held prisoner at ANC Quatro prison camp for
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Sir John Barrow, author and explorer of the interior of SA, arrives at the Cape and has to start immediately to resolve boundar
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A May Day rally is addressed by President Mandela at Umlazi. He is escorted from the stadium in an armoured car when shots are
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The Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas, to which SA is a party, is signed in Genev
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The Jonker diamond, fourth largest stone on record, is cut in three after an intensive study of three months. It was found by
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The corner stone of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Graaff-Reinet, the 6th oldest church building in SA, is laid. It i
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João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind. The stone is now kept in the South African M
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An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the
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The death toll after an outbreak of a deadly Ebola-like disease in Angola climbs to 122. The country turns to civilians and the
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The results of an opinion poll indicate that more than 160 000 White South African adults plan to leave the country within the
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The Congress of SA Trade Unions has urged its alliance partner, the ANC, to clarify its stance on political and human rights ab
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Henry Allen Fagan, SA author, from whose poem President Mbeki quoted in his response on the occasion of the budget vote of the
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Sifiso Mahlangu (10), who was sent back from England to his parents in SA in January, returns to Salome Stopforth, the lady who
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BBC reports SA security police are cleared of any blame in the death of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko who died while in
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Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, is born on Robben Island, where her fath
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Gen. Louis Botha, SA premier, resigns because of the anti-British tone in the De Wildt speech by Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog. On reques
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George VI, who became king when his brother abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, is born. He visited SA in 1947 with his family.
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Lucas Radebe, SA born soccer star, is ruled out of the Bafana’s squad for the 2002 African Nations Cup finals by a twisted ankl
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Three SA farmers from the Eastern Cape, who have crossed the border to Lesotho to search for stolen cattle, are shot and killed
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The first Union Parliament of SA opens, with James Molteno as speaker and F.W. Reitz as president of the Senate. The first Un
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Lord Kitchener meets with Gen. Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacc
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The SA government and the ANC agree to a plan which will lead to Black majority rule by 1999. In 1994 a parliament of 400 m
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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Cote d’Ivoure ends in a tie with one goal scored on each side.
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The Ruth Prowse Art Centre is opened in The Retreat as an art and cultural centre with artist Erik Laubscher as first head.
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The Star reports that in an interim report issued by the Harms Commission it is claimed that Mr Peet De Pontes, National Party
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The Venda Attorney General announces he has ordered an inquiry into the death of Mr. Muffle to be held in the Sibasa Magistrate
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