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… Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa. …

… During the official gala dinner in Windhoek, Namibia, in honour of Robert Mugabe, he hails his land and …

… Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized in Zimbabwe by squatters and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign to reclaim …

… In an attack described by Mukesh Kapila, top official of the UN in Sudan, government-allied militia (known as Janjawiet), rape …

… announces ninety-nine year leasehold rights for Blacks in three Cape Town townships in order to stop the riots over …

… The first verdict in Afrikaans is brought in Cape Town by the English speaking Judge R.P.B. Davies. …

… out on a crowded train travelling from Cairo to Luxor in southern Egypt, killing 373 people and injuring sixty in …

… of seventeen year old stowaway, Samuel Benjamin, found in the wheel-well of a British Airways aircraft in Los Angeles …

… Fifteen people are killed in an attack on youth volunteers for an ANC voter education workshop in Mahlele, Creighton, Natal, pr …

… Former State President P.W. Botha appears in court in George because of his refusal to testify before the Truth …

… In the House of Assembly, twelve new nominated members are sworn in. They include Professor Owen Horwood, former Leader of the …

… For the fifth time in a row a South African driver has won the Rotax Grand Final World karting championship in Lanzarote, Canar …

… reveals multi-million rand frauds and irregularities in the film in …

… by the name of Koch discovers a vaccine successful in the prevention of , an animal disease that caused an in most …

… alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing in New York, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. Th …

… Up to this date fourteen people have been killed in escalating violence in Venda sparked by allegations of ritual killings and …

… of Race Relations indicate a fall of twenty per cent in political trials in 197 …

… Dr D.F.Malherbe is appointed as professor in modern languages at the Grey University College in Bloemfontein at the request of …

… In an open letter to the government, financial services group PSG comes out in support of First National Bank’s (FNB) aborted c …

… Twelve people, nine women and three children, are killed in a pre-dawn attack by a group of unknown people in Masunkazane, Rich …

… The prime minister states in the House of Assembly in Cape Town that the United Nations general-secretary, Dr. …

… A car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing at least twenty people and injuring about sixty in the worst bombing during a three-yea …

… secretary Andrew Barnard and a chronicler of daily life in the colony in a series of l …

… A twenty-year ban on big-game hunting is lifted in the Côte d’Ivoire in an attempt to raise tourist revenue. …

… Dr Viljoen answers in parliament in response to a speech by Mr Peter Gastrow MP (National …

… Kaddourah and Safik Hussein el-Anda, under death sentence in Greece for their part in the 5 August terrorist atta …

… Cricket coach Bob Woolmer is cremated in a private ceremony attended only by close relatives in Cape Town. It is believed that …

… church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), is born in Hebron, Pretoria. The …

… official said the ANC would lose $14.5 million a year in Swedish aid as soon as it starts campaigning in S …

… Eighty thousand Blacks attend a mass funeral in KwaNobuhle township for the twenty-eight people killed by police in Langa on 21 …