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Helen Suzman, politician opposed to apartheid and former member of parliament for Houghton, is born in Germiston.

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Soldiers assault a crowd demonstrating for political opposition in Zaire’s capital, Kinshasa. Dozens of people are wounded and

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SA signs agreement with the government of Switzerland concerning support to the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).

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The Angolan government and Unita rebel organisation again sign a peace treaty, the 1994 Lusaka Protocol, reaffirming agreements

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Sifiso Khumalo (13), Msani Chamane (13) and Sibongiseni Makhatini are killed in their homes in Greytown, Natal.

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Dr Hendrik Josephus Terblanche, compiler of eight dictionaries and three grammar books, is born in Aberdeen, CP.

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Anti-apartheid forces hold a Conference for a Democratic Future (CDF) and pass a number of resolutions containing the elements

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Sir Otto John Beit, financier, philanthropist and younger brother of Alfred Beit, is born in Hamburg, Germany.

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John H. Amschewitz, SA art painter and cartoonist, dies three days before his sixtieth birthday in Muizenberg, Cape.

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Government Notice No 149, authorising the arrest and conviction of people found loitering within a municipal area, commences.

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Chief Lennox Sebe is unanimously elected as Ciskei’s president, and the Rev. W.M. Xaba becomes vice-president.

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Multi-Party negotiators agree to the re-incorporation of the TBVC states (Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and Venda).

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At least fourteen people are killed and twenty-four injured in a bomb explosion in a market in Algiers.

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Ismail Mahomed Ayob, attorney, notary, economist and recipient of various awards, is born in Mafeking (now Mafikeng).

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Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, is born in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape.

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Dr Albertus J.R. van Rhijn (81), newspaper editor, member of parliament and minister of Economic Affairs, dies.

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Senator F.S. Malan (69), editor of the early Afrikaans publications Die Afrikaanse Patriot and Ons Land, dies.

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Anna Margaretha Louw, Afrikaans author and recipient of various wards, is born in the district of Calvinia.

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Sidney Mendelssohn, compiler of the South African Bibliography and collector of Africana, is born in Exeter, England.

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Robert Mugabe succeeds Canaan Banana and becomes Zimbabwe’s first executive president after reforming the constitution to usher

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Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus, trade unionist and unselfish fighter for the underprivileged, is born in Vredefort, OFS.

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James Chapman, photographer and pioneer explorer in many regions of the Zambezi, is born in Cape Town.

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A C-130 Hercules with ten passengers and a crew of four, under which a SA pilot, disappears near Huambo, Angola.

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Richard John Maponya, leading race-horse breeder and businessperson, is born in Pietersburg (Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (no

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Carl Gottlieb Büttner, Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, is born in K&ouml;nigsberg,

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Peace agreement signed, ending seven-year Rhodesian guerrilla war and 15-year rebellion against the British crown.

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The Secretary-General announces that Mrs. Sadako Ogata, High Commissioner for Refugees, and Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Chairman

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Thomas Mshoki Gcabashe, local IFP official, is killed, shot forty-five times in the neck and shoulder.

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Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius), ambitious and charismatic leader of the Zion Christian Church,

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Rival political and ethnic groups riot in Rwanda, killing at least five people ahead of peace talks.

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Helen Suzman, politician opposed to apartheid and former member of parliament for Houghton, is born in Germiston.

Soldiers assault a crowd demonstrating for political opposition in Zaire’s capital, Kinshasa. Dozens of people are wounded and

SA signs agreement with the government of Switzerland concerning support to the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).

The Angolan government and Unita rebel organisation again sign a peace treaty, the 1994 Lusaka Protocol, reaffirming agreements

Sifiso Khumalo (13), Msani Chamane (13) and Sibongiseni Makhatini are killed in their homes in Greytown, Natal.

Dr Hendrik Josephus Terblanche, compiler of eight dictionaries and three grammar books, is born in Aberdeen, CP.

Anti-apartheid forces hold a Conference for a Democratic Future (CDF) and pass a number of resolutions containing the elements

Sir Otto John Beit, financier, philanthropist and younger brother of Alfred Beit, is born in Hamburg, Germany.

John H. Amschewitz, SA art painter and cartoonist, dies three days before his sixtieth birthday in Muizenberg, Cape.

Government Notice No 149, authorising the arrest and conviction of people found loitering within a municipal area, commences.

Chief Lennox Sebe is unanimously elected as Ciskei’s president, and the Rev. W.M. Xaba becomes vice-president.

Multi-Party negotiators agree to the re-incorporation of the TBVC states (Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei and Venda).

At least fourteen people are killed and twenty-four injured in a bomb explosion in a market in Algiers.

Ismail Mahomed Ayob, attorney, notary, economist and recipient of various awards, is born in Mafeking (now Mafikeng).

Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, is born in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape.

Dr Albertus J.R. van Rhijn (81), newspaper editor, member of parliament and minister of Economic Affairs, dies.

Senator F.S. Malan (69), editor of the early Afrikaans publications Die Afrikaanse Patriot and Ons Land, dies.

Anna Margaretha Louw, Afrikaans author and recipient of various wards, is born in the district of Calvinia.

Sidney Mendelssohn, compiler of the South African Bibliography and collector of Africana, is born in Exeter, England.

Robert Mugabe succeeds Canaan Banana and becomes Zimbabwe’s first executive president after reforming the constitution to usher

Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus, trade unionist and unselfish fighter for the underprivileged, is born in Vredefort, OFS.

James Chapman, photographer and pioneer explorer in many regions of the Zambezi, is born in Cape Town.

A C-130 Hercules with ten passengers and a crew of four, under which a SA pilot, disappears near Huambo, Angola.

Richard John Maponya, leading race-horse breeder and businessperson, is born in Pietersburg (Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (no

Carl Gottlieb Büttner, Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, is born in K&amp;ouml;nigsberg,

Peace agreement signed, ending seven-year Rhodesian guerrilla war and 15-year rebellion against the British crown.

The Secretary-General announces that Mrs. Sadako Ogata, High Commissioner for Refugees, and Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Chairman

Thomas Mshoki Gcabashe, local IFP official, is killed, shot forty-five times in the neck and shoulder.

Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius), ambitious and charismatic leader of the Zion Christian Church,

Rival political and ethnic groups riot in Rwanda, killing at least five people ahead of peace talks.

Carl Gottlieb Büttner, Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, is born in Königsberg,