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Foreign Minister Dr Hilgard Muller apologises to Zambia for the actions of five members of the South African police detained on

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A re-organisation of the South African Defence Force replaces the General Staff with a body to be known as the ‘Supreme Command

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Cricketer Daryll Cullinan sets the highest Test score by a South African batsman, scoring 275 not out against New Zealand in Au

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UN General Assembly approves $416m for UN’s one-year plan to free Namibia from seventy-four years of South African rule.

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Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo, member of the South African Communist party and prominent politician, goes on trial for making anti-war

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Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo

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A South African flag is torn to pieces and three Springbok lifesavers are attacked during a near-riot at the Melbourne ocean su

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The ANC and the South African government make further concessions in an attempt to draw the FA into an inclusive constitutional

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date of a warship payment, used as evidence in the infamous Arms deal corruption scandal that rocked the ANC led South African

Letter written by the Lord Killanin of the IOC to Frank Braun president of the South African National Olympic Committee, 1967

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The oldest South African college of education and the biggest in the Cape Province, the Wellington College of Education, is ope

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

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Walter Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the &quot;South African Society for Peace and Friendship with the Soviet Union&qu

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The leader of the South African opposition, Sir de Villiers Graaff, agrees with the government that the composition of the prop

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Fake versions of the new South African banknotes have hit the streets barely a week after the latest currency was released by t

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Figures released by the South African Institute of Race Relations indicate a fall of twenty per cent in political trials in 197

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The African Union says the military in Togo has conducted a virtual coup by ignoring the constitution and appointing the son of

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A consortium of Black investors takes over African Life from Southern Life at R160 million. (Beeld, 2 Feb 2004. Vandag in die o

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The Star reports that the South African Council of Churches rejected the order that the organisation had to declare the identit

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The South African Air Force is established, the first of the Commonwealth air forces. Lt-Col. Pierre van Ryneveld is appointed

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Harold Cressy, educationist and teacher, is born at Rorke’s Drift. He was the only Black student of the South African College (

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According to figures from the South African Police, the number of unrest-related deaths in Natal since 1 September 1987 up to t

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Stella Sigcau, South African minister of Public Works since 1999 and third prime minister of the former Transkei, dies at Durba

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SA rugby is plunged into a crisis because Louis Luyt refuses to resign as president of the South African Rugby Football Union.

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Presidents Joaquim Chissano and Nelson Mandela sign an agreement to allow South African farmers to settle and farm land in Moza

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Senior ANC leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ]

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General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the

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General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the

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A prominent White South African lawyer and ANC member, Albie Sachs, is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and M

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Following the and the protest at Langa, roughly 1,500 Blacks are detained by the South African police in Cape Town.