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A surprise top-level military meeting between Angola, South Africa and Cuba ends in Cape Verde. The talks follow reports that a
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The last six SA mercenaries from the attempted Seychelles coup are pardoned, freed and arrive in Johannesburg. The Minister of
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The government gives its details of proposals to consolidate 157 ‘Black spots’ and sixty-eight Zulu areas into a homeland. Kwaz
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The resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Theo Gerdener, is announced and will take effect from 31 July 1972.
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The first aircraft hijacking is attempted by Chinese on a flight of Cathay Pacific. The hijacking failed and the plane crashe
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The Rev. Wilhelm A. Alheit is inducted in the DRC in Colesberg. He and his daughter drowned in 1910 at Kleinmond.
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Marches organised by the African National Congress, SA Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions are held
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The SA defence force attacks alleged ANC homes and offices in Gaborone, Botswana, in Operation Plecksy. Twelve or thirteen peop
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Prime Minister Vorster and Dr. Hilgard Muller arrive in Geneva. A meeting is held with twelve South African ambassadors to Euro
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US helicopters and gunships destroy four of Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid’s arms depots, one week after his forces allege
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Jabulani Sibisi, Joseph Mthembu, Sifiso Nxumalo and Nkosinthi Thenjekwayo, all ANC members, are shot dead in an ambush near Pie
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Twenty Somalis are killed and fifty more wounded when Pakistani members of the United Nations (UN) peacekeeping forces fire int
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Marais Viljoen, former President of the Senate and acting State President, is elected State President by members of both Houses
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Overwhelmed by rising waters on the Niger River, officials open the floodgates of two major dams, submerging 400 villages and l
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade, eleven years and one day after
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Former American Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, lectures South Africans on the need for racial reform and a new Constit
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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t
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Schalk Willem Botha, vice-president of the ZAR and later acting state president upon President Paul Kruger’s departure for Euro
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Fabian Defu Ribeiro, medical doctor and community worker who fought for equality for all races, is born in Bantule, Pretoria.
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Cosatu and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) are to table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Develo
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Sonwabo Eddie Funde, businessman and director on several boards, is born in Johannesburg. He achieved an MSc in Electrical Engi
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The Life and Death of Dr Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat, 23 February 1943 to 27 January 1989 by Jon Soske
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South Africa, Angola and Cuba formally accept the principles of an Angola/Namibia peace plan. The three countries, in separate
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Paardekop, in the Gatsrand, near Vereeniging, General J.C. Smuts and a small party are surprised in their
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This Day reports that the jobs of about 9 000 mineworkers will be saved after successful negotiations between Harmony Gold and
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James Cameron, SA educationist and vice-chancellor of the University of the Cape of Good Hope, is born on Madagascar.
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Former President Nelson Mandela celebrates his 86th birthday with family and friends at his Qunu home, Eastern Cape Province.
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Twenty-six commuters are killed by vigilantes, allegedly as result of sporadic gun fighting between rival ANC and IFP supportin
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The Nigerian President of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) states that Britain and other countries maintaining sp
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