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Hundreds of White-owned farms are seized in Zimbabwe by squatters and pro-Mugabe war veterans in a violent campaign to reclaim
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Riot police and security force soldiers raid the Allan Taylor residence of the University of Natal, three days after the bannin
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Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo, member of the South African Communist party and prominent politician, goes on trial for making anti-war
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Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo
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The State President amended the emergency regulations to allow the minister of law and order to restrict the activities of orga
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Sir William Henry Beaumont, judge and private secretary of the administrator of Natal, is born in India. He was chairman of t
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Julius Gottlieb Jeppe, founder of the Jeppe and Ford Estate Company that planned the first Johannesburg suburbs, is born in Ros
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Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel announces during the reading of the budget in Parliament that his ministry and the Reserve Ba
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Mr Clase, minister of education and culture (White own affairs) says in parliament that race quotas at White technikons have be
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The Minister of Justice and the Police, Jimmy Kruger, states that a full-scale judicial commission of inquiry into deaths in de
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The Orange Free State Vierkleur is hoisted for the first time and the coat of arms of the republic is unveiled.
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President F.W. de Klerk and ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela share a public platform for the first time as they jointly rece
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The minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, says in the House of Assembly that no member of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (
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Mr Mxolisi Mswela, national organiser of the Azanian Students’ Movement (AZASM) is arrested at his home and held under the Inte
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The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube, Zulu journalist and politician, is born in Inanda, Natal. Date is given as 12 February 187
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Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in
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The Minister of Manpower, Fanie Botha, the leader of the Conservative Party, Dr. Andries Treurnicht, and one of his senior lieu
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A South African flag is torn to pieces and three Springbok lifesavers are attacked during a near-riot at the Melbourne ocean su
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A fire breaks out on a crowded train travelling from Cairo to Luxor in southern Egypt, killing 373 people and injuring sixty in
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The Citizen reports that released ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, and his wife, Winnie, were granted passports to visit the ANC lea
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A Day of Prayer, called by NIC, is observed very widely. Indian businesses are closed at 1 pm, and many Indians take a resistan
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The ANC and the South African government make further concessions in an attempt to draw the FA into an inclusive constitutional
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The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to
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The government of South Africa and the African National Congress announce an agreement on terms of the ANC’s decision to suspen
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President Botha announces that his offer of release to Nelson Mandela still stands and that government is prepared to talk to t
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Jacobus Hendrik Hatting, fighter at the battle of Blood River and author of an early history of the Voortrekkers, is born.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Cronje is trapped against the Modder River on the farm Wolwekraal in the Paardeberg vicinity, and t
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Twelve ANC supporters are killed in an IFP attack on houses and hostels in Esikhaweni, Natal North Coast, allegedly assisted by
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, Dr. Connie Mulder, announces that he will in future be known as the Minis
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