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Former President Nelson Mandela celebrates his 86th birthday with family and friends at his Qunu home, Eastern Cape Province.

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The Nigerian President of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) states that Britain and other countries maintaining sp

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In a rare display of force, UN troops launch a rescue mission that frees all 222 peacekeepers and eleven military observers tra

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H.A. Fagan, former Chief Justice and Minister of Native Affairs, agrees to become leader of the National Union. Its founder, J.

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Cornelis Jacob Langenhoven, SA author and writer of the words of Die Stem, dies at his home ‘Arbeidsgenot’ in Oudtshoorn.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: British Gen. French drives Scheepers out of the Camdeboo Mountains and Major Moore, with a detachment of Conn

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Countries across Africa, South America and Central Asia express disappointment at a US decision to cut off military aid to doze

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William Rantoa and Kgosimang Mafora, members of the pro-Bophuthatswana faction, are killed when gunmen open fire on them at a b

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Cosatu, Saccola and the minister of manpower of the F.W. de Klerk cabinet agree in principle to establish a national negotiatio

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Cosatu, Saccola and the minister of manpower of the F.W. de Klerk cabinet agree in principle to establish a national negotiatio

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Stephen Gregory Naidoo, prelate, canon lawyer and critic of apartheid, dies in London. He was appointed archbishop of Cape Town

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The Chamber of Mines of South Africa announces wage increases of fifteen percent and twenty-eight percent respectively, for Bla

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The constitution of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) is adopted at the inaugural conference and Steve Biko is el

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The police raid the editorial offices of the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg and confiscate documents relating to a series of a

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Jacob Daniël du Toit (Totius) (76), SA theologian, poet and co-translator of the Bible into Afrikaans, dies in Pretoria.

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Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, and son of Walter Sisulu, is arrested under

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The Belgian Congo becomes the independent Republic of the Congo, with Joseph Kasavubu as president and Patrice Lumumba as prime

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Sir William Cornwallis Harris, traveller, hunter and renowned artist, arrives in Algoa Bay from where he sets out on a hunting

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Police fire tear gas at unruly fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a

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Douglas Hurd, UK Foreign Secretary, on three-day visit to SA, meets De Klerk, Mandela and PAC President Clarence Makwetu.

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Angolan news agency Angop reports that South African troops, backed by planes, tanks and artillery, used chemical weapons in at

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The largest organised trek to East Africa, under Jan van Rensburg, consisting of seventy families with forty-seven wagons and s

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Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.

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Boris Becker (17) of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA on Wimbledon and becomes the youngest ever tennis champion.

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A number of people are injured in a bomb explosion at a taxi and bus terminal in Johannesburg. Right wing complicity is suspect

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Congolese President Joseph Kabila and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni meet for first face-to-face peace talks in Tanzania as

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Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.

… Human Rights Committee, p. 252. | https://www.anc.org.za/ …

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The Sierra Leone government imposes a ban on all trade and commerce with South Africa, as a protest against its apartheid polic

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Fighting breaks out as a riotous crowd on the Johannesburg market square is confronted by police and mounted soldiers during th

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Susanna Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy who worked mainly in Nigeria, is b