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Biafran troops, under the command of Colonel Ojukwu, have crossed the Niger River into Nigeria’s Mid-Western State and are head
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Justice Richard Goldstone said that his Commission was ready to carry out a full-scale inquiry into the security forces and pol
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In Bethlehem, OFS, a Black man called Frans is tried by the British, found guilty, sentenced to death and h
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Terrorist bombs detonate within minutes of each other outside US embassies in buildings in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Ta
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Students at Lovedale College embarked on a strike against the new Code of Conduct and the appointment of the new Headmaster who
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The match between the SA rugby team and New Zealand ends in a tie with 18 points each. SA loses the series 2-0.
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Eleven people die and seventy-six are injured in a bomb explosion in a store in Salisbury (now Harare) the capital of Rhodesia
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Andrew Vusi Fasedemi, businessman and managing director of several companies, is born in Cardiff, Wales. He came in 1994 to Sou
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Nigerian police arrest some thirty people in Anambra state after fifty corpses and twenty skulls are discovered in raids on fet
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Daniel Tshabalala disappears in Soweto after allegedly taken from his house by four men, two Black men in police uniforms and t
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Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There
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Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u
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Relations between SA and the USA becomes strained by SA’s announcement that it is going to normalise full diplomatic ties with
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Victoria Mxenge, civic rights activist and wife of murdered Griffiths Mxenge, is shot dead outside her home in Umlazi, near Dur
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SA signs a protocol of intent on military cooperation between the Ministry of Defence of South Africa and the Ministry of Defen
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Omar Badsha, SA photographer, trade unionist and political activist, is born in Durban. He is currently head of the Non Governm
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Following official meetings held in Sweden (15-19 June) and later in Britain, the United Nations Special Committee on the Polic
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Pres. Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station and accompanies him to his hotel to
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Louis Ernst Brandt (65), minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk and champion of the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War 2, die
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Durban is renamed. Capt. Allen F. Gardiner and fifteen residents decide to re-name the mission station Berea, D’Urban, in honou
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A US Marine is killed and eight other service members are injured by errant bombs dropped by a US B-52 Stratofortress in Djibou
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European Union members meeting in Florence, Italy, fail to agree on a plan to fight high unemployment in Europe and oppose US e
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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight
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Electricity comes to Durban when the mayor, Mrs George Payne, pulls a switch and parts of the town are bathed in light.
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South African Black nationalist Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, arrive in New York City for a ticker-tape parade in their
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Twelve Africans (eleven men and one woman) appear in court in Pretoria accused of setting up a transport route to smuggle recru
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Hieronymus Cruse (57), German born explorer and soldier in the service of the Dutch East India Company, who led several barter
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J.T. Kruger, former Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, is elected President of the Senate on the nomination of P.W. Botha
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Theophilus (Offy) Shepstone, son of Sir Theophilus and adviser of Mbandzeni, chief of the Swazi nation, is born in Fort Peddie.
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