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Judicial Matters Amendment Act No 143 amending the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act No 117 of 1991 in order to re
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The first elections to the South African Indian Council are held. Of the SAIC’s forty-five members, forty are up for election,
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Response of President Thabo Mbeki, to the Debate on The State of The Nation Address NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, CAPE TOWN, FEBRUARY 15, 2001
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P.W. Botha (90), former state president of South Africa who took the first steps to change some apartheid measures, dies at his
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Nigerian political activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa is one of eight people sentenced to death for the death of four Ogoni leaders (who d
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Winnie Mandela is given a six-month suspended sentence for defying a banning order. She is to appear in court on 16 November 19
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Delegates from the Congress of SA Trade Unions mission to Zimbabwe are left at the Beit Bridge border post by Zimbabwean police
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Israeli President Yitzhak Navon becomes the first Israeli head of state to visit Egypt. His welcome by Anwar al-Sadat is carrie
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In a precedent-setting judgment, a full Bench of the Cape High Court rules in favour of the SABC’s request to televise Mark Tha
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Former minister of foreign affairs, R.F. (Pik) Botha says in Centurion that the ANC has lied to the previous government. He mak
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The Security police disclose the existence of an underground group the Yu Chi Chan, said to include people trained in Peking an
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The congress of the Helpmekaar-vereniging, founded to help pay the debt of the 1914-rebels, is held in Middelburg, Cape Provinc
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The Netherlands Foreign Minister Dr. Luns says in The Hague that the Dutch government’s gift of 20,000 Pounds Sterling to the D
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The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC’s nominee to the
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SA signs agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding visits by the ICRC to persons held in South Afri
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Federal troops are sent into Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, which declared an intention to secede on 30 May.
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Because a select committee to inquire into and report on certain organisations has not completed its task at the end of the par
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The basic agreement about the transfer of Simonstown naval base to the Union of South Africa by the United Kingdom is concluded
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Helen Joseph, who has been under a series of banning orders since she became the first South African to be placed under house a
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The basic agreement about the transfer of Simonstown naval base to the Union of South Africa by the United Kingdom is concluded
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The Star reports that the Scorpions plan to investigate more MPs than the twenty-three named in connection with an estimated R1
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Four men die instantly when a car swerves to avoid a second which was spinning on the Odi race track and ploughed into spectato
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Adelaide Tambo, wife of ANC president Oliver Tambo, arrives in SA after thirty years abroad, to re-establish the ANC Women’s Le
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Police fire teargas at a 300-strong crowd which had gathered outside the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to convey their wi
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The Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, to which SA is a party, is signed i
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Robert Van Tonder, founder of the Boerestaat Party in 1986 to fight for the restoration of the old Transvaal, Northern Natal an
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Ian Hamilton, commanding a force of about 6 000 men with twenty-six field guns, is sent to capture Co
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The United Nations (UN) Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea. In October 1950 South Africa sent its
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Sisulu makes the first broadcast on “Radio Freedom” from a secret hideout in SA. He urges the youth to join forces and continue
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