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About sixty people have been injured in an accident involving a bus and a truck on the N1 south, near Murrayhill, north of Pret
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Speech by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference on “Children, repression and the law in Apartheid South Africa”, Harare, 24 September 1987
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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader who made up his own birth date because, according to him, the corr
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The Greek Government expelled the two-man South Africa team of Dale Hayes and from the World Cup international men’s team golf
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Disturbances break out in the Black townships of Port Elizabeth and police open fire on rioting crowds. Tensions rise in the ar
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Judge M.T. (Theunie) Steyn, judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa, is born on the farm Onze
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A man arrested in connection with the shooting of a farmer, Niels Verburg, 52, and his son, Kim, 5, in a cave on 30 October, wa
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The Star reports that poor management of SANDF equipment and the theft of weapons that ended up in rebels’ hands are fuelling t
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About sixty people have been injured in an accident involving a bus and a truck on the N1 south, near Murrayhill, north of Pret
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Huberte Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, dies in Stellenbosch. She was known for her promotion of the arts and as an
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Andrew Barnard (45), colonial secretary of the Cape and husband of Lady Ann Barnard, dies on a farm near Cape Town after contra
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South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer is assaulted at home in Johannesburg by three men who lock her in a store room and
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Air services is inaugurated in SA with the amalgamation of a London-based company and a SA-based company under the name of the
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Firms from Denmark and Yugoslavia pull their staffs out of Algeria as more foreigners flee a new wave of slayings by Islamic ex
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Representation of Blacks Act No 12, removing Black voters in the Cape from the common roll and placing them on a separate roll,
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Lawson reports that the De Beer and Van Rooyen’s commando, raiding the upper Tugela from the Free State,
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The British actors’ union, Equity, decides to retain its ban on the sale of television and other recorded material to South Afr
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Mozambique and the Soviet Union reject the findings of the Margo Commission on the air disaster in which Pres. Samora Machel wa
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The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC’s nominee to the
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This Day reports that the SA movie, Senter, produced by students from the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Liv
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The Africa Union (AU) summit opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and agrees to send 300 AU troops to protect ceasefire monitors in
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A fifty-two-strong delegation, led by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine, leaves SA for talks with the African Natio
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Kausobson Kausob, chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the ninetee
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As France announces that the Sahara will not be included in its plan for an independent Algeria, eighty people are killed and a
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Granny Maloko Temo of Mantata near Dendron, eldest person in SA and allegedly eldest in the world, celebrates her 130th birthda
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Because a select committee to inquire into and report on certain organisations has not completed its task at the end of the par
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SA tennis player Liezel Huber and Cara Black of Zimbabwe win the women’s doubles on Wimbledon. Huber also reached the semi-fina
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African slaves being shipped to Cuba, revolt and seize the ship Amistad, leading to the eventual end of the African slave marke
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Jean Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher and author, whose influence was felt in the Cape Colony, dies. At the time of his dea
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