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The President’s Council says 3.3 million workers in the country are unemployed and urges the government to embark on a developm
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The light aeroplane, in which the young singer Gwynneth Ashley Robin and five orchestra members are travelling to a concert, cr
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Ethiopia’s military strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam steps down and flies to exile in Zimbabwe after fourteen years of brutal ru
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Ethiopia’s military strongman Mengistu Haile Mariam steps down and flies to exile in Zimbabwe after fourteen years of brutal ru
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The Government and the ANC receive the report on procedures for releasing political prisoners, which were drafted by the joint
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The Government and the ANC receive the report on procedures for releasing political prisoners, which were drafted by the joint
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The US expels the South African military attaché in response to raids by South African forces into Botswana, Zambia, and
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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.
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The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta
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An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the
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Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van
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Tumi Padi and Nokuzolo, both MK’s, are shot dead in Soweto. Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the rep
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The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the "young and e
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WWII: North Africa. Rommel is instructed by Berlin to leave Tobruk to the Italians and concentrate his Deutsches Afrika Korps o
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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi
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At a news conference, the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu says it is difficult
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The Rev. T.C. (oom Essie) Esterhuysen, missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Transvaal, is born in C
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The Soweto City Council serves notices on Winnie Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Nthato Motlana and Ellen Kuzwayo to pay their rent
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S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Kathlehong. The Sekano N
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Ignoring international pleas to end their two-year border conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea return to open war with fighting repor
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An ANC delegation, led by Deputy President Mbeki, makes the party’s second major submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Com
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A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven.
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The Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, tells Parliament that nearly 700 terrorists were arrested in 1977 an
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Urgent supplies, including tanks and aircraft arrive at the Egyptian port of Alexandria with the convoy, code-named ‘Tiger’. Ge
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The Prime Minister announces that eight very important Western intelligence agents, held by the Soviet Union, and one South Afr
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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.
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