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Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon dies of an unknown disease some months after he and British archaeologist Howard Carter have discov
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The newly formed DA-IFP "coalition of change" leaders of the parties, Tony Leon and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, hold their
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Eugene Terre ‘Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging is condemned to death seven times because he and two follower
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Henry Allen Fagan, chief justice of the Union of SA, cabinet minister and playwright, is born in Tulbach, CC.
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The Refugees Act, 1998, comes into action. Mozambique and Zimbabwe are by far the largest source of illegal immigrants.
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The National Coordinating Committee for the Repatriation of South African Exiles (NCCR) is dissolved due to fraud and corruptio
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Joel Phoshoko (28), member of the Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers’ Union (CCAWUSA), dies in police custody in Pretoria.
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SA recalls its ambassador to Britain for urgent consultations, after four South Africans and a Briton are charged in Coventry w
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Pik Botha, SA ambassador in the USA, returns to South Africa and is appointed as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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South African President F.W. de Klerk declares a state of emergency in Natal and orders army into the Zulu stronghold.
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A Defence White Paper analyses South Africa’s defence requirements in the context of the Soviet and Cuban intervention in Angol
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According to a newspaper report the Methodist Church protested against the apartheid policy and was strongly opposed to the Res
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Eugene Marais, SA poet, naturalist, lawyer and journalist, shoots himself on the farm of Gustav Preller, near Pelindaba. Joyc
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Raymond Hoffenberg leaves South Africa on an exit permit, without possibility of return, to take up a research and consultant’s
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Beyers Naudé is arrested together with Allan Boesak and over 200 others for their part in a demonstration march through
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Peter Loubser Were Becker, author, ethnologist and advertising executive, is born at Veld View, Rivonia. He was a special frien
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John Fleming (Jack) Brock, scientist, physician and professor who developed the Department of Medicine at the University of Cap
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The British under Sir Garnet Wolseley defeats Sekhukhune, Pedi paramount chief in the Battle of Sekhukhune Mountain and impriso
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What Eskom calls a "rolling blackout" continues in the Western and parts of the Eastern Cape today after the shutdown
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Police in Natal open fire on people demonstrating against the imprisonment of Mohandas Gandhi, killing two and wounding twenty-
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Hansi Pauline Pollak, sociologist, welfare worker and activist, is born in Johannesburg. In 1980 the University of Natal awarde
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Jacob de Villiers Roos, journalist, attorney, Director of Prisons, Controller and Auditor-General of the Union of South Africa
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More than 500 traditional healers march to the Treatment Action Campaign’s offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, demanding tha
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An Ethiopian Airlines plane is hijacked over the Comoros Islands and crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 125 people.
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Ms Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April
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South African government announces it has joined Cuba and Angola in endorsing a plan to remove Cuban troops from Angola.
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The twenty-fourth General Assembly of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its collaboration with Portugal and Southern
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The first session of the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council is officially opened in Bellville and immediately takes up th
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Two Johannesburg paramedics, Adriaan Craukamp and Johan Erasmus, who abandoned a homeless man, who later died in the street, ha
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