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More than 10 000 mourners gather in strife-torn Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The
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Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for "blasphemous libels on Cape ladies" and is sentenced to beg thei
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Salisbury, British premier, rejects the offer of Pres. McKinley of America to act as mediator in the war
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In response to a question in Parliament Dr Van Niekerk, minister of health, says that thirty-seven cases of AIDS have been diag
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Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping
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In the wake of strikes in Natal in February, The Guardian publishes a documented report on the low wages paid to Black workers
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The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr
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The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft
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Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al
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The western wing of Munitoria burns down and 5 000 municipal workers are requested by authorities to stay away from work the ne
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Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k
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The South African Government says it is ready to implement the United Nations plan for the independence of Namibia as set out i
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Eight foreigners die in a shoot-out in a Ugandan game reserve as soldiers try to free fifteen tourists who were kidnapped by Rw
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The first slave, Abraham, a stowaway from Batavia, arrives in Table Bay aboard the Malacca. He is made to work for the company
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An 18-seater plane, owned by Bop Air and chartered to Comair, explodes in mid-air near Germiston, killing all seventeen people
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The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr
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The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft
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Major political organisations sign the National Peace Accord calling for the laying down of arms to create an environment conducive for negotiations
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Open communication to my nominators for the post of Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Cape by Saleem Badat
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Document 100 - “15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike: Communist Party Calls Mass Demonstration to Commemorate”, South African Worker, 27 February 1937
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APDUSA Views - Issue No 69: Shameless Opportunism - Allows Jack Straw to get Away with the Murder of Innocent Iraqis, 15 May 2003
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General Johan van den Merwe, National Police Commissioner (1990-1995), admits that he gave the order in 1988 for the police to
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The formerly Whites-only National Party opens its membership to all race groups. Date is given as 19 October in another source.
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Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, dies in London.
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President Mandela vows ‘to leave no stone unturned’ in finding the truth behind the air crash ten years before that killed Moza
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The PAC appoints V. Make as its new chairman and H. Isaacs to replace the assassinated Mr. Sibeko as its Director of Foreign Af
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On this night, there are 40,58 million people in SA, according to Census ‘96. Of these, 76,7% classified themselves as African,
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The demand to the United Nations by four Caprivi chiefs and officials of the newly formed Caprivi African National Union for th
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Sir George White, who arrived in Cape Town on 3 October and in Durban on 7 October, proceeds to Ladysmith, wh
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