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Sir William Cornwallis Harris, traveller, hunter and renowned artist, arrives in Algoa Bay from where he sets out on a hunting

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Police fire tear gas at unruly fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a

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Douglas Hurd, UK Foreign Secretary, on three-day visit to SA, meets De Klerk, Mandela and PAC President Clarence Makwetu.

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Angolan news agency Angop reports that South African troops, backed by planes, tanks and artillery, used chemical weapons in at

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The largest organised trek to East Africa, under Jan van Rensburg, consisting of seventy families with forty-seven wagons and s

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Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.

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Boris Becker (17) of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA on Wimbledon and becomes the youngest ever tennis champion.

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A number of people are injured in a bomb explosion at a taxi and bus terminal in Johannesburg. Right wing complicity is suspect

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Robert McBride, ANC member who planted a bomb in Magoo’s Bar, Durban, and later became Ekurhuleni metro police chief, is born i

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Congolese President Joseph Kabila and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni meet for first face-to-face peace talks in Tanzania as

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Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.

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The Sierra Leone government imposes a ban on all trade and commerce with South Africa, as a protest against its apartheid polic

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Fighting breaks out as a riotous crowd on the Johannesburg market square is confronted by police and mounted soldiers during th

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Susanna Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy who worked mainly in Nigeria, is b

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Governor Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon leaves the Cape. He was popular with the colonists and improved conditions of

Opening address and political report of ANC President Thabo Mbeki by ANC, 16 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane

Press Comments made by South African President Thabo Mbeki and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Union Buildings, Pretoria. Friday 5 October 2007

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The National Assembly passes legislation providing for abortion on demand within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and for te

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Stephen Gregory Naidoo, prelate, canon lawyer and critic of apartheid, is born in Durban. He was appointed archbishop of Cape T

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Chief Mhlontlo (Mhlonthlo) lures Hamilton Hope (resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape) and his staff to Sulenkama wh

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South African Black leader Nelson Mandela appears in court in Johannesburg and pleads not guilty. Nelson Mandela, in his Long W

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Burundi’s National Palace is stormed in a coup and Hutu president Melchior Ndadaye is killed just four months after gaining pow

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Church, community and worker organisations call for a national day of peaceful protest on the day of the coming municipal elect

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Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in P

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Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician, Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, is bor

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Death Row prisoner Butana Almond Nofomela is granted a last minute stay of execution following his revelations that he and four

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Sita Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only&quot; reading room, defying the segregati

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The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 Oct), adopts a Declaration urgin

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A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze.

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SA signs multilateral treaty on the conservation of Atlantic tunas (with final act and resolution adopted by the conference of

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Sir William Cornwallis Harris, traveller, hunter and renowned artist, arrives in Algoa Bay from where he sets out on a hunting

Police fire tear gas at unruly fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a

Douglas Hurd, UK Foreign Secretary, on three-day visit to SA, meets De Klerk, Mandela and PAC President Clarence Makwetu.

Angolan news agency Angop reports that South African troops, backed by planes, tanks and artillery, used chemical weapons in at

The largest organised trek to East Africa, under Jan van Rensburg, consisting of seventy families with forty-seven wagons and s

Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.

Boris Becker (17) of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA on Wimbledon and becomes the youngest ever tennis champion.

A number of people are injured in a bomb explosion at a taxi and bus terminal in Johannesburg. Right wing complicity is suspect

Robert McBride, ANC member who planted a bomb in Magoo’s Bar, Durban, and later became Ekurhuleni metro police chief, is born i

Congolese President Joseph Kabila and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni meet for first face-to-face peace talks in Tanzania as

Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.

The Sierra Leone government imposes a ban on all trade and commerce with South Africa, as a protest against its apartheid polic

Fighting breaks out as a riotous crowd on the Johannesburg market square is confronted by police and mounted soldiers during th

Susanna Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy who worked mainly in Nigeria, is b

Governor Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon leaves the Cape. He was popular with the colonists and improved conditions of

Opening address and political report of ANC President Thabo Mbeki by ANC, 16 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane

Press Comments made by South African President Thabo Mbeki and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Union Buildings, Pretoria. Friday 5 October 2007

The National Assembly passes legislation providing for abortion on demand within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and for te

Stephen Gregory Naidoo, prelate, canon lawyer and critic of apartheid, is born in Durban. He was appointed archbishop of Cape T

Chief Mhlontlo (Mhlonthlo) lures Hamilton Hope (resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape) and his staff to Sulenkama wh

South African Black leader Nelson Mandela appears in court in Johannesburg and pleads not guilty. Nelson Mandela, in his Long W

Burundi’s National Palace is stormed in a coup and Hutu president Melchior Ndadaye is killed just four months after gaining pow

Church, community and worker organisations call for a national day of peaceful protest on the day of the coming municipal elect

Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in P

Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician, Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, is bor

Death Row prisoner Butana Almond Nofomela is granted a last minute stay of execution following his revelations that he and four

Sita Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only&amp;quot; reading room, defying the segregati

The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 Oct), adopts a Declaration urgin

A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze.

SA signs multilateral treaty on the conservation of Atlantic tunas (with final act and resolution adopted by the conference of

Sita Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only" reading room, defying the segregati