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The Bloemfontein Conference between President Paul Kruger and British High Commissioner Sir Alfred Milner, under President Stey
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Joyce Modimoeng is killed and her husband, David (MAWU member) injured, by a bomb thrown into their house.
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AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) leader Eugene TerreBlanche is convicted of attempted murder and assault in the Magistrates
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Ignatius Royston Dunnachie (Roy) Campbell (56), SA poet and writer, is killed in a car accident in Portugal
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Martha Helena Cillié, teacher and headmistress whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls
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Ellen Kuzwayo (91), author, stalwart campaigner against apartheid in South Africa and a tireless fighter for women’s emancipati
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Pharmaceutical companies drop a lawsuit against South Africa ending an international battle over patent rights and profit. The
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Eleven people are killed in Nancefield, PWV, in a clash between Nancefield hostel and Power Park squatter camp.
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Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.
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Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.
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Henry Bathurst, statesman and creator of the British Colonial Office, is born in Gloucestershire, England. Bathurst, founde
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Rejoice Thizwilondi Mabudafhazi , Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism of the Republic of South Africa since 1
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Egyptian president Muhammad Hosni Mubarak orders direct-dial communications to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and the Sudan
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Prof. Maarten Christiaan Roode, first music professor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and compil
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Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant who resisted several Graaff-Reinet magistrates over frontier policy and was elected
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Dr Rudolph Marloth (75), collector of plants and author of botany books, dies in Caledon, Western Cape.
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The British Sports Council urges the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and all other international sporting governing bodie
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France and independent French-speaking West African states initiate an agreement setting up a West African Monetary Union.
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After successful military operations in Sokoto and Kano Britain adds 260,000 km2 to its Nigerian territory.
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The theatre, movie and broadcasting arts committee of the FAK is established with Prof. G. Cronjé as chairman.
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Relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa deteriorate further when the Minister of Police, L. le Grange, threatens retaliator
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Violence in KwaZulu-Natal spills over into the streets of central Durban and running gun battles ensue.
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Police arrest the Azanian People’s Organisation’s (AZAPO) two principal leaders, Ishmael Mkhabela and Lybon Mabasa in Soweto.
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Police arrest the Azanian People’s Organisation’s (AZAPO) two principal leaders, Ishmael Mkhabela and Lybon Mabasa in Soweto.
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An airlift starts to ship Rwandan refugees, trapped in Zaire and hunted by rebels, back to Rwanda.
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An airlift starts to ship Rwandan refugees, trapped in Zaire and hunted by rebels, back to Rwanda.
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The game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Denmark ends in a tie with the score 1-1.
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William Wellington Gqoba (Mbaba, Goba), author, editor, teacher, catechist, interpreter and wagon-maker, dies in Lovedale, East
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AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) leader Eugene TerreBlanche is convicted of attempted murder and assault in the Magistrates
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