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Church, community and worker organisations call for a national day of peaceful protest on the day of the coming municipal elect
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Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in P
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Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician, Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, is bor
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Death Row prisoner Butana Almond Nofomela is granted a last minute stay of execution following his revelations that he and four
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Sita Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only" reading room, defying the segregati
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The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 Oct), adopts a Declaration urgin
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A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze.
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SA signs multilateral treaty on the conservation of Atlantic tunas (with final act and resolution adopted by the conference of
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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow
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The Conservative Party threatens to stage a tax revolt and television license boycott in an attempt to force the government to
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The Battle of Vechtkop (Vegkop), near present day Heilbron, FS, between the Voortrekkers and the Ndebele takes place. Kalipi at
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Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third legitimate son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, is born in Griqualand West.
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The Afrikaans Language and Culture Association, ATKV, gives former president F.W. de Klerk its highest award for having the cou
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Thomas Sankara, head of the Military Council of the Revolution in Burkina Faso, is assassinated in a military coup and replaced
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The Minister of Sport, Dr Piet Koornhof, announces a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declares the government is wor
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Gana Makabeni, trade union leader and member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the
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Zoli Nhlanhla Rigney Kunene, commercial director of Kunene Bros Holdings and chair of other Kunene companies, is born in Boksbu
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Four men are arrested after a shoot-out between robbers and security guards in central Johannesburg on the previous day left a
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The ANC accuses President F.W. de Klerk of a breach of confidentiality and unilaterally releases the details of its meeting wit
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Up to 85 000 people march against the Labour Relations Amendment Act in Uitenhage and demand an end to apartheid.
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Ludwig (58) and Angelique (43) Adelberg of Muldersdrift die when their rented Cessna plane crashes in a mountain side near Geor
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At talks in Pretoria the Burundian president and CNDD/FDD rebel leader agree to implement a ceasefire deal signed the previous
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At talks in Pretoria the Burundian president and CNDD/FDD rebel leader agree to implement a ceasefire deal signed the previous
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A joint statement is issued following a meeting by President de Klerk and Nelson Mandela to discuss the recent violence. The st
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A joint statement is issued following a meeting by President de Klerk and Nelson Mandela to discuss the recent violence. The st
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development states that, in 1973, 475,387 foreign Africans were working in South Afric
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Nine people are killed on the N1 between Bloemfontein and Winburg when a lorry runs into the back of a stationary bus.
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Nine people are killed on the N1 between Bloemfontein and Winburg when a lorry runs into the back of a stationary bus.
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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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