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Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages taken on hijacked Flight 139 (an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens

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103 hostages are rescued by an Israeli commando unit at the raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda in operation Thunderball (later r

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Dangerous Weapons Act No 71, prohibiting the possession of weapons, which could cause bodily injury if used in an assault, comm

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The Rev. Dr. Arthur William Blaxall, an Anglican clergyman, is convicted on charges of aiding the activities of the Pan-African

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An apartment block in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis collapses, killing sixty-four. The owner is later sentenced to a seven-yea

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An intensified campaign to enforce the pass laws leads to increased prosecutions in the Cape Town area. The government is worki

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Former President F.W. de Klerk files a request for an interdict in the supreme court to prevent the publication of negative all

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At the request of the Government of India, the General Assembly decides to include in its agenda an item entitled: &quot;Treatm

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A large crowd spends the night outside the Durban magistrate’s court in an all-night vigil for former deputy president Jacob Zu

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US jet fighters force an Egyptian airliner carrying hijackers of cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the hijacker

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South Africa fails to meet an ultimatum by the International Olympic Committee to comply with its demand to renounce racial dis

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An emergency session was convened by parliament on October 12, 1995, to approve legislation to permit local elections to be hel

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Ben Turok is sentenced to three years imprisonment for attempting to cause an explosion in the centre of Johannesburg in Februa

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A UN agency begins dropping tons of food from a cargo plane to help an estimated 700 000 people facing serious food shortages i

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The State President Dr. Nicolaas J. Diederichs dies of a heart attack in Cape Town. Following an earlier heart attack on 12 Aug

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An Anglo-French plan to give Italy economic concessions if they renounce their claims for Ethiopia are rejected by Italy during

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The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W

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The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W

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Science Magazine reveals in an article that dinosaur eggs, discovered in South Africa in 1978 during road works in the Golden G

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The Alabama, American raider of the Southern states during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay to load provisions an

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Josia Thugwane is the first Black SA athlete to win an Olympic gold medal award by winning the marathon in Atlanta.

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A Portuguese attempt at an invasion against the Moors of Morocco is thwarted at the Battle of Alcazar-el-Kebir. King Sebastian

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South African swimmer Penny Heyns wins gold again in the women’s 200m breaststroke final, after setting an Olympic record in he

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The South African Air Force’s newest addition, the Gripen fighter jet, takes its first flight around Cape Town, causing an ear-

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Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, gives an assurance that the six refugees will not be required to leave the consu

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The Prime Minister again meets Coloured leaders in Cape Town in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the government’s Coloured p

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Beyers Naude (89), an Afrikaner cleric who became one of the most important moral voices of the anti-apartheid movement, passes

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Algeria closes its border with Morocco in an escalating dispute over the arrest of two Algerians accused of plotting to attack

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Eighty-four African would-be immigrants drown off Mauritania after their boats sank in an attempt to reach Spain’s Canary Islan

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Group chief executive Maanda Manyatshe announces that the SA Post Office has finally delivered an operating profit of R27 milli

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Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages taken on hijacked Flight 139 (an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens

103 hostages are rescued by an Israeli commando unit at the raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda in operation Thunderball (later r

Dangerous Weapons Act No 71, prohibiting the possession of weapons, which could cause bodily injury if used in an assault, comm

The Rev. Dr. Arthur William Blaxall, an Anglican clergyman, is convicted on charges of aiding the activities of the Pan-African

An apartment block in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis collapses, killing sixty-four. The owner is later sentenced to a seven-yea

An intensified campaign to enforce the pass laws leads to increased prosecutions in the Cape Town area. The government is worki

Former President F.W. de Klerk files a request for an interdict in the supreme court to prevent the publication of negative all

At the request of the Government of India, the General Assembly decides to include in its agenda an item entitled: &amp;quot;Treatm

A large crowd spends the night outside the Durban magistrate’s court in an all-night vigil for former deputy president Jacob Zu

US jet fighters force an Egyptian airliner carrying hijackers of cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the hijacker

South Africa fails to meet an ultimatum by the International Olympic Committee to comply with its demand to renounce racial dis

An emergency session was convened by parliament on October 12, 1995, to approve legislation to permit local elections to be hel

Ben Turok is sentenced to three years imprisonment for attempting to cause an explosion in the centre of Johannesburg in Februa

A UN agency begins dropping tons of food from a cargo plane to help an estimated 700 000 people facing serious food shortages i

The State President Dr. Nicolaas J. Diederichs dies of a heart attack in Cape Town. Following an earlier heart attack on 12 Aug

An Anglo-French plan to give Italy economic concessions if they renounce their claims for Ethiopia are rejected by Italy during

The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W

The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W

Science Magazine reveals in an article that dinosaur eggs, discovered in South Africa in 1978 during road works in the Golden G

The Alabama, American raider of the Southern states during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay to load provisions an

Josia Thugwane is the first Black SA athlete to win an Olympic gold medal award by winning the marathon in Atlanta.

A Portuguese attempt at an invasion against the Moors of Morocco is thwarted at the Battle of Alcazar-el-Kebir. King Sebastian

South African swimmer Penny Heyns wins gold again in the women’s 200m breaststroke final, after setting an Olympic record in he

The South African Air Force’s newest addition, the Gripen fighter jet, takes its first flight around Cape Town, causing an ear-

Margaret Thatcher, the British Prime Minister, gives an assurance that the six refugees will not be required to leave the consu

The Prime Minister again meets Coloured leaders in Cape Town in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the government’s Coloured p

Beyers Naude (89), an Afrikaner cleric who became one of the most important moral voices of the anti-apartheid movement, passes

Algeria closes its border with Morocco in an escalating dispute over the arrest of two Algerians accused of plotting to attack

Eighty-four African would-be immigrants drown off Mauritania after their boats sank in an attempt to reach Spain’s Canary Islan

Group chief executive Maanda Manyatshe announces that the SA Post Office has finally delivered an operating profit of R27 milli

At the request of the Government of India, the General Assembly decides to include in its agenda an item entitled: "Treatm