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SA signs an agreement with Southern Rhodesia for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with res
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The ANC begins an open-ended campaign of public protest with a day of rallies, work stoppages and threats of a crippling genera
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A four-day conference (16-19 June) to examine racism, colonialism and apartheid in South Africa is held in Lisbon, Portugal, or
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Funeral service of Rivonia trialist and MK cadre Wilton Mkwayi takes place in King William’s Town. He was awarded this honour
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Dr Wouter Basson testifies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had to help keep Nelson Mandela alive in gaol
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The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is to resign from the government of National Unity follo
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Thirty residents are killed in an attack on ANC dominated Umthambeka by The Toaster gang and hostel dwellers, allegedly in coll
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The South African government and ANC leaders hold talks, brokered by the United Nations Special Envoy to South Africa, Cyrus Va
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The Rev. Edward Jacannathan Manikkam, minister of the Reformed Church in Africa and first Indian to be ordained in the family o
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Sierra Leonean rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who had been in United Nations custody since 2000 and was awaiting trial on charges o
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South African President F.W. de Klerk demotes two Cabinet ministers in charge of security, Magnus Malan and Adriaan Vlok, to de
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A gale force southeaster wrenches the Antipolis loose from her anchor and the ship runs aground at Oudekraal. In the same sto
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Ms Benedicta Lindiwe Hendricks, Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa since 22 June 2005, is born.
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The government of President Obote of Uganda is overthrown for the second time and replaced by a military council under Gen. Tit
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Steinaecker’s corps’ prisoners taken on 21-07-1901 at Bremersdorp by Boer General Tobias Smuts, are tried and
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Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes and accomplished writer, dies in Kaya K
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Walter Sisulu appears before the Magistrate in Bloemfontein and is released on £50 bail. The case would serve before the Supre
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The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.
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Agreement is reached between the South African Police, ANC, SACP and COSATU on the principles outlined by a panel of experts on
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Severus G. Smidt (62), SA author who wrote under the pseudonyms of Johann van der Post and Adriaan Roodt, dies in Durban.
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SA signs treaty with the Perishable Products Export Control Board for the ocean conveyance of goods between South Africa and Eu
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After the 1914 Rebellion, General Christiaan de Wet is found guilty of high treason in the High Court, Bloemfontein, and senten
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Johannes de Wet (80), champion for freedom of the press against Lord Charles Somerset and member of the Cape legislative assemb
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Lord Salisbury negotiates an Anglo-French agreement on West Africa and ends the Niger crisis. It defines the border between Nig
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Three Whites, Damion de Lange, Ian Robertson and Susan Donelly, are convicted of terrorism for being in possession of an arms c
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Julayi Hlekiso, chairperson of the Transport and General Workers Union, is shot at point blank range outside his office in Umta
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Stellenbosch University announces that it is to open its doors to Black, Coloured and Asian students for all post-graduate degr
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A row over a fare between an Egyptian donkey boy and a Maltese man triggers a riot in the city in which several hundred people
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Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the
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