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Kenyan police attack pro-democracy demonstrators in Nairobi with whips, clubs and tear gas, sending thousands of panicked prote
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Kenyan police attack pro-democracy demonstrators in Nairobi with whips, clubs and tear gas, sending thousands of panicked prote
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Erik Holm, professor of entomology at the University of Pretoria and expert in archaeology, is born in Bethulie, OFS.
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Premier Ahmadou Ahidjo discloses that France had agreed to grant the Cameroons internal autonomy and, if supported by a referen
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Former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda is charged by the UN International Criminal Tribunal with genocide and crimes again
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The Goldstone Commission reports the finding of a secret operational centre run by Military Intelligence and seizes plans to de
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The Southern African Black Alliance (SABA) and the PFP declare their total opposition to the pending constitutional changes inv
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A total of 128 members of the United States Congress, from both the Democratic and Republican parties, send a written request t
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Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J
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Anglo-Boer War: Republican forces under Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog attack Jagersfontein and release all prisoners in the gaol before t
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Cornelis Freek Bezuidenhout, accompanied by his son and a visitor, Jacob Erasmus, is shot dead by Khoi soldiers under a White l
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Sydney Charles Buxton (80), British statesman and second governor-general of the Union of SA, dies in Sussex, England.
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Britain’s Queen Victoria issues charter to Cecil John Rhodes and others authorising them to establish the British South Africa
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Moses Mbheki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, is awarded the Soviet Order of
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British premier Harold Wilson and Rhodesian leader Ian Smith, meeting aboard HMS Fearless off Gibraltar, fail after five days o
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Dr Emil Cohen, geologist and discoverer of the first gold deposits at Lydenburg, northern Transvaal, is born in Denmark.
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Anthony (Tony) Nkotsi, SA artist and currently (1988) head of the Printmaking Department at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, is
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Frederick Logier (66), organist and music teacher who established the Logier music academy in Cape Town, dies. A composition by
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Nelson Mandela returns to South Africa’s notorious Robben Island and said "the emotions ran wild" when he met prisone
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Defence Minister Botha announces that a missile base for experimental tests and launchings is to be established on the Zululand
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Turkey formally recovers Egypt by treaty with France, Napoleon’s army having been expelled by a joint Turkish and English force
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The Mozambique Government, its right-wing guerrilla opponents and South African officials meet in Pretoria to thrash out detail
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Mninwa Johannes Mahlangu, ANC politician and Deputy Chairperson of National Council of Provinces (NCOP) since 2002, is born Lee
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Mamorena Annah Buthelezi-Phori, ANC politician and MEC for Social Welfare, Free State Provincial Government since 1999, is born
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One of the biggest faction fights ever recorded on the Witwatersrand, starts as a canteen brawl. Zulus, Shangaan, Chopis and
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Identification Amendment Act No 47, amending the 1986 Identification Act so as to repeal certain obsolete provisions, and order
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Chief Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, warns that violent confrontation between Blacks and Whites will be an inevita
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Lesotho, formerly the British colony of Basutoland, achieves its independence as the Kingdom of Lesotho and becomes a member of
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Hermann Böhle, SA electro-technical engineer and first professor in electro-technics at the South African College in Cape
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