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Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White Hous
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Gunmen storm the military compound of President Eyadema in Loma, Togo, and kill his top military aide, then flee from governmen
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Minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok states in parliament that eighty-one people were charged under the Internal Security Act
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Six girls and three teachers of a primary school in Vereeniging die when the minibus in which they are travelling overturns bet
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The Minister of Water Affairs announces an ambitious scheme to harness the Orange River for power and irrigation at a cost of R
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Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.
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Dr William Nicol, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and Administrator of Transvaal from 1948-1958, is born in Robertson, CC
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Noby Ngombane, 38, head of the Free State governments policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier’s office, is shot de
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Declaration by about 1,500 Mayors calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African political prisoners pub
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling, summoned from Cape Town by Lord Roberts, arrives in Bloemfontein to join th
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Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Worl
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini hold a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agrees to join in German
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Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is found guilty in the Cape Supreme Court of embezzling
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A Defence Force spokesman confirms in Cape Town that South Africa is to stop supplying the United States and Britain with intel
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Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&eacut
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger and Pres. Steyn appoint Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil as general in Kroonstad during the So
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Four people, believed to be members of the ANC, are arrested in Gaborone, Botswana, and charged with the illegal possession of
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Percy Fisher, miner and unionist born in 1891 in Durham, England, is found dead inside Central Hall of Fordsburg with a bullet
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The former Prime Minister and President, John Vorster, re-emerges into public life with a speech in Bloemfontein in which he qu
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Commander R.C. Dyer of the vessel MHS Industry reads the document annexing Walvis Bay and the surrounding area for Britain, aft
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Maropoli Mapalakanye, an organiser for MWASA, is reported missing. No reply is received from the minister of law and order to a
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Violence erupts when 50 000 (or 100 000 according to police) residents from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and areas in the Od
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The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the ANC issue a joi
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SA sends troops to Ciskei to suppress mob attacks on factories and shops after military coup under Brigadier Gqozo ousted autho
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Cape Town’s Hely-Hutchinson Reservoir, named after Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, at one time governor of Natal and of the
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Four striking truckers are shot and wounded by a security guard when about 150 protesters storm the gates of Cargo Carriers in
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Four senior newspaper editors are found guilty on between one and three counts under the 1982 Protection of Information Act, an
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ZANU-PF under Robert Mugabe wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe and Robert Mugabe becomes president. http://www.news24.
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In the British House of Commons the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Select Committee on Expenditure proposes an inquiry
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