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Dr Pierre Rossouw, ecumenical affairs and information officer of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) re-emphasises that the DRC con

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Palestinian students storm the Egyptian embassy in Athens, and an embassy in Beirut comes under rocket attack as protests sprea

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The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopt terms for a truce to end a conflict killing an estimated 1,0

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Anti-apartheid demonstrations continue in front of the South African Embassy in Washington and spread to other US cities where

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The Security Council, in resolution 182(1963), calls upon all States &quot;to cease forthwith the sale and shipment of equipmen

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The Rev. Johannes Henoch Neethling, co-founder of the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, later the Paul Roos Gymnasium, and also the “Stel

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Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse residents of Ganyesa, north of Vryburg in North-West province. Residents were

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Russian czar rejects President Paul Kruger’s pleas for official aid in South Africa against the British.

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The Weekly Mail reports that allegedly twenty people have died in taxi feuds in 1989 and many more seriously injured.

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The Black Students’ Movement (BSM) at Rhodes University and the Black Students Society (BSS) at the University of the Witwaters

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The Transitional Executive Council has its first meeting in Cape Town and adopts a resolution of the Multi-party Negotiating Co

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Up to 1&nbsp;000 delegates from SA and overseas meet for the Pan-Africanist Congress’s first national conference inside the cou

This day in history

State President Vorster opens the first emergency session of Parliament to be held in peacetime and promises action against any

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Twelve people are killed in Kathlehong, East Rand, as a result of the bloody feud between ANC Youth League and SDU.

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SA signs the following four agreements with the US: economic, technical and related assistance; the program of the Peace Corps

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Egypt breaks off relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen, all opponents of its peace moves with Israel.

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Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, who was murdered on 19 November, is buried at his home v

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Henry Mutile Fazzie, vice-president, Eastern Cape Region of the United Democratic Front, 1983, and member of the Port Elizabeth

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Sir Leander Starr Jameson and about 500 Rhodesian police surrender at Doornkop, near Krugersdorp, after the failure of the Jame

This day in history

Phatho, chief of the mixed XhosaHottentot (Khoi-Khoi) people the Gqunukwebe and his brother Kobe, sign a new treaty with Col. J

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A new award scheme for miners is implemented. The Inspectorate administers the scheme on behalf of the Mine Health and Safety C

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Sudanese President Omar al Bashir and First Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamad Taha arrive with their National Party Secretary Ge

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The Rev. W.A. Alheit and his youngest daughter, Bella, drown at Kleinmond when a freak wave washes them from the rocks.

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Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town.

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Frederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The

This day in history

Siza Khang Cecil Khampepe, financier and managing director of Khayalethu Home-loans, is born in Johannesburg. He is director of

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Prof. Dirk Postma, founder of the “Gereformeerde Kerk van Suid-Afrika” (GKSA, nicknamed ‘Doppers’) and head of the reformed the

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Election in Kenya. President Daniel Arap Moi leaves office and is succeeded by opposition leader Mwai Kibaki as Kenya’s third p

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In the Battle of the White Umfolozi, the Voortrekker commando is ambushed and nearly overpowered by a Zulu impi. Alexander Harv

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George Mzimvube Matanzima, Prime Minister of the Transkei, 1979 and younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima, is born at Qamata, Tr

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Dr Pierre Rossouw, ecumenical affairs and information officer of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) re-emphasises that the DRC con

Palestinian students storm the Egyptian embassy in Athens, and an embassy in Beirut comes under rocket attack as protests sprea

The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopt terms for a truce to end a conflict killing an estimated 1,0

Anti-apartheid demonstrations continue in front of the South African Embassy in Washington and spread to other US cities where

The Security Council, in resolution 182(1963), calls upon all States &amp;quot;to cease forthwith the sale and shipment of equipmen

The Rev. Johannes Henoch Neethling, co-founder of the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, later the Paul Roos Gymnasium, and also the “Stel

Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse residents of Ganyesa, north of Vryburg in North-West province. Residents were

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Russian czar rejects President Paul Kruger’s pleas for official aid in South Africa against the British.

The Weekly Mail reports that allegedly twenty people have died in taxi feuds in 1989 and many more seriously injured.

The Black Students’ Movement (BSM) at Rhodes University and the Black Students Society (BSS) at the University of the Witwaters

The Transitional Executive Council has its first meeting in Cape Town and adopts a resolution of the Multi-party Negotiating Co

Up to 1&amp;nbsp;000 delegates from SA and overseas meet for the Pan-Africanist Congress’s first national conference inside the cou

State President Vorster opens the first emergency session of Parliament to be held in peacetime and promises action against any

Twelve people are killed in Kathlehong, East Rand, as a result of the bloody feud between ANC Youth League and SDU.

SA signs the following four agreements with the US: economic, technical and related assistance; the program of the Peace Corps

Egypt breaks off relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen, all opponents of its peace moves with Israel.

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, who was murdered on 19 November, is buried at his home v

Henry Mutile Fazzie, vice-president, Eastern Cape Region of the United Democratic Front, 1983, and member of the Port Elizabeth

Sir Leander Starr Jameson and about 500 Rhodesian police surrender at Doornkop, near Krugersdorp, after the failure of the Jame

Phatho, chief of the mixed XhosaHottentot (Khoi-Khoi) people the Gqunukwebe and his brother Kobe, sign a new treaty with Col. J

A new award scheme for miners is implemented. The Inspectorate administers the scheme on behalf of the Mine Health and Safety C

Sudanese President Omar al Bashir and First Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamad Taha arrive with their National Party Secretary Ge

The Rev. W.A. Alheit and his youngest daughter, Bella, drown at Kleinmond when a freak wave washes them from the rocks.

Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town.

Frederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The

Siza Khang Cecil Khampepe, financier and managing director of Khayalethu Home-loans, is born in Johannesburg. He is director of

Prof. Dirk Postma, founder of the “Gereformeerde Kerk van Suid-Afrika” (GKSA, nicknamed ‘Doppers’) and head of the reformed the

Election in Kenya. President Daniel Arap Moi leaves office and is succeeded by opposition leader Mwai Kibaki as Kenya’s third p

In the Battle of the White Umfolozi, the Voortrekker commando is ambushed and nearly overpowered by a Zulu impi. Alexander Harv

George Mzimvube Matanzima, Prime Minister of the Transkei, 1979 and younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima, is born at Qamata, Tr

The Security Council, in resolution 182(1963), calls upon all States "to cease forthwith the sale and shipment of equipmen

Up to 1 000 delegates from SA and overseas meet for the Pan-Africanist Congress’s first national conference inside the cou