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Gabriel A. Odé, official historian of the ZAR, is dismissed after differences of opinion between him and Drs Leyds, Mans
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President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwandan President Paul Kagame sign a peace agreement intend
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The minister of Education and Development, Dr Gerrit Viljoen, states in Parliament that action was being taken against schools
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Sixty-seven of the sixty-nine suspected mercenaries plead guilty to lesser charges of violating Zimbabwe’s immigration and civi
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Albert Zafy, the top opposition leader in Madagascar is arrested and thousands of his supporters protest in a central square.
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UN Security Council endorses Western plan for ending guerrilla warfare in Southwest Africa and making it independent new state
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Susanna Catharina Smit, wife of Erasmus Smit and Gerrit Maritz’s sister, who rendered valuable service in teaching the children
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The Scorpions arrest John Pappie Mokoena, mayor of Mangaung, his wife Granny and city manager Mojalefa Laplole, chief operating
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The Constitutional Court rejects an attempt by the families of murdered political activists to have the Truth and Reconciliatio
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A combined force of the Seventh Hussars, local troops and the newly recruited British South Africa Police attacks Mashona chief
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South African politician and author of “Jock of the Bushveld,” Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, is born in King William’s Town.
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A limpet mine blast opposite the Athlone Magistrate’s Court and police complex kills two people. A third person is killed in a
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Following statements by leaders of the (White) South African Amateur Swimming Union and the (White) South African Badminton Uni
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Twenty-two leading Indian leaders, including Manilal Gandhi, Albert Christopher and P.R. Pather, calls for a mass meeting to pr
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Police detain UDF national secretary-general Mohamed Valli and UDF acting publicity secretary Murphy Morobe in a pre-dawn raid
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Criminal Procedure Act No 51 commences. It consolidates the law relating to procedure in criminal proceedings and repeals the 1
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The Deputy Chairman of the Coloured Representative Council, J.A. Rabie, calls for full citizenship for Coloured people, and urg
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The Simonstown agreement on naval cooperation between Britain and South Africa is formally ended by mutual agreement after 169
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A meeting between the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na
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A meeting between the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) and the SADF takes place, with a main objective to discuss alternative na
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Thozamile Botha, Chief Executive Officer of the telecommunications company Ikwezi Group and chief negotiator for the ANC on Loc
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Prof. Willem Blommaert, chairman of the senate of the University of Stellenbosch, historian and educationist, is born in Belgiu
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Pretoria regional court magistrate Len Kotze finds the Waterkloof Four guilty of murder and announces another guilty verdict on
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Marches are staged by the ANC in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s "mass mobi
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The Transkei Legislative Assembly meets for the first time in Umtata and elects Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief Minister.
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Vuyisile Mini, Zinakile Mkaba and Wilson Khayinga, three prominent trade union leaders from the Eastern Cape, are executed in P
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The Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunited National Party), joining the followers of Dr. D.F. Malan and General J.B.M. Hertzog, is
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Prof. Pothinus Carl Matsiri Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, dies in Mankweng
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Two gunmen open fire on a crowd of commuters in Jeppe railway station, Johannesburg, killing five persons and injuring fourteen
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