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About 80 000 scientists attend an international congress on HIV/Aids in Florence, Italy.

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The Congress of South African Trade Unions is formed with a membership of 500 000.

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Constitutional commission recommends 5,000-year-old monarchy be ended and Egypt become a republic.

About 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion

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About 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion

5 000 cartoons later and Zapiro’s still tilting at windmills by Jonathan Ancer, 06 february 2015

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Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele breaks the 10 000m world record in 26 minutes 20.32 seconds.

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SA Department of Justice announces that more than 1 000 ANC members have applied for amnesty.

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The &quot;Mad Mullah&quot; and 17,000 troops are advancing on the British at Bohodle, Somaliland.

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The United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) has ordered the mobilisation of 100,000 reservists.

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Military observers returning to the Rwandan countryside report ethnic killings of at least 200 000.

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Police confront some 10,000 students demonstrating against rent increases in Soweto and violence ensues.

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Military observers returning to the Rwandan countryside report ethnic killings of at least 200 000.

Central Park, some people, 3.00 p.m. (a poem)

Central Park, some people, 3.00 p.m. (a poem)

Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV

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Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV

Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the first South African elections held without racial discrimination against voters on this day in 1994

Elections in post Apartheid South Africa

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French and Belgian paratroopers who were flown into Kolwezi, Zaire’s main copper producing town, to rescue the 3,000 White resi

The South African Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu

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The South African Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu

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A mass arrest of 2,000 Nyanga squatters is carried out, under immigration legislation allowing summary deportation.

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Mozambican rebels rampage through villages, killing about 1 000 people and beheading them, according to media reports.

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Severe drought is reported in Ethiopia, over 800,000 people are in urgent need of supplies.

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WW2: Bardia, Libya, falls to a British assault 25 000 Italian troops, including six generals, are captured.

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Red Cross says clan battles in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu have killed more than 1 000 people.

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Fleeing fighting, 30 000 refugees from Rwanda and Burundi leave their refugee camp in eastern Zaire.

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A devastating veld fire near Plettenberg Bay claims six lives and destroys 220 000 hectare of vegetation.

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Bambatha Rebellion:Over 7,000 British troops are called out to quell Zulu aggression in Natal.

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US marines open fire on 3,000 Somali demonstrators protesting against the US presence in the country.

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The Queen opens the Commonwealth Games in Manchester with a spectacular ceremony in front of 38,000 people.

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The South African government begins removing 45 000 Bakalobeng tribesmen from a Transvaal area into the Bophuthatswana homeland

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It is announced that 15 000 applications per week for gold mining permits are received in Johannesburg.

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South African companies donate twelve tons of food worth R100 000 to &quot;the people of Moscow&quot;.