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A Netherlands fleet under Wijbrand van Warwijk arrives at an island in the Indian Ocean. They stay for nearly four months to re

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The Minister of Justice asks for an extension of emergency powers granted to one area troubled by faction fighting to the entir

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The Anti-Convict Association in Cape Town dissolves as a result of an order-in-council rescinding the decision to make the Cape

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The United Nations marks the 20th anniversary of the first official report on Aids. An estimated 58 million people have contrac

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The Constitution Amendment Bill of South Africa provides for an increase in the number of members of Parliament from 160 to 170

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Maria Visser (68), mother of SA singer Worsie Visser, dies in Barkley West, a month after her son was killed in an accident.

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The hijack drama involving an SA Airways Boeing 727 the Letaba ends at Blantyre’s Chileka Airport in Malawi when the two hijack

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The Government Gazette proclaims that only one-fifth of District Six, will be returned in its entirety to its earlier status an

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The Proteas became the first South African team in history to win a Test cricket series in Australia when they took an unassail

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Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, an Osama bin Laden follower, is sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing

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The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (BAAM) holds an 11-hour rock concert at Wembley Stadium in London to pay tribute to Nelson

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The Council of Ministers of the OAU issues a resolution calling for an urgent meeting of the Security Council to examine the is

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The Supreme Court of Appeal refuses to allow the Western Cape education MEC to compel an Afrikaans-medium school, Mikro, in Kui

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The SA athlete Marcello Fiasconaro sets a new world record in the 800 m race in an athletic contest in Milan. He achieves the

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Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org

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A service in Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral marks the retirement of the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu as Archbishop of Cape Town an

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The University of Stellenbosch alumni decide not to ask for a review of the decision to confer an honorary doctorate on Bram Fi

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Mpho Mathibela, one of the two Siamese twins separated in an operation six months ago, leaves hospital for the first time. She

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President Thabo Mbeki is consulting with west African leaders ahead of an emergency trip to Ivory Coast to settle the latest un

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Egypt denies it has a secret nuclear weapons programme in an angry response to reports that the UN atomic watchdog agency is in

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Following the placing of an embargo on the supply of oil to South Africa from Arab countries, the Prime Minister announces res

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Archbishop Tutu confers with State President P.W. Botha in an attempt to move him to commute the death sentences imposed on the

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The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft

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An earthquake measuring 6.8 strikes Algeria’s northern coast, 70 km east of Algiers. At least 2 200 people are killed in the in

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The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft

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Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri

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President Leon M’ba is restored to power in Gabon by French troops, following an attempted coup led by Jean-Hilaire Aubume.

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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of t

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Four people die when a MI-8 MTV helicopter crashes on a building in Cape Town after the tail end had caught an advertising boar

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The Citizen reports that an alleged member of the SADF, Isaiah Moyo, was convicted in Lusaka, Zambia, on three counts of espion

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A Netherlands fleet under Wijbrand van Warwijk arrives at an island in the Indian Ocean. They stay for nearly four months to re

The Minister of Justice asks for an extension of emergency powers granted to one area troubled by faction fighting to the entir

The Anti-Convict Association in Cape Town dissolves as a result of an order-in-council rescinding the decision to make the Cape

The United Nations marks the 20th anniversary of the first official report on Aids. An estimated 58 million people have contrac

The Constitution Amendment Bill of South Africa provides for an increase in the number of members of Parliament from 160 to 170

Maria Visser (68), mother of SA singer Worsie Visser, dies in Barkley West, a month after her son was killed in an accident.

The hijack drama involving an SA Airways Boeing 727 the Letaba ends at Blantyre’s Chileka Airport in Malawi when the two hijack

The Government Gazette proclaims that only one-fifth of District Six, will be returned in its entirety to its earlier status an

The Proteas became the first South African team in history to win a Test cricket series in Australia when they took an unassail

Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, an Osama bin Laden follower, is sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing

The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (BAAM) holds an 11-hour rock concert at Wembley Stadium in London to pay tribute to Nelson

The Council of Ministers of the OAU issues a resolution calling for an urgent meeting of the Security Council to examine the is

The Supreme Court of Appeal refuses to allow the Western Cape education MEC to compel an Afrikaans-medium school, Mikro, in Kui

The SA athlete Marcello Fiasconaro sets a new world record in the 800 m race in an athletic contest in Milan. He achieves the

Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org

A service in Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral marks the retirement of the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu as Archbishop of Cape Town an

The University of Stellenbosch alumni decide not to ask for a review of the decision to confer an honorary doctorate on Bram Fi

Mpho Mathibela, one of the two Siamese twins separated in an operation six months ago, leaves hospital for the first time. She

President Thabo Mbeki is consulting with west African leaders ahead of an emergency trip to Ivory Coast to settle the latest un

Egypt denies it has a secret nuclear weapons programme in an angry response to reports that the UN atomic watchdog agency is in

Following the placing of an embargo on the supply of oil to South Africa from Arab countries, the Prime Minister announces res

Archbishop Tutu confers with State President P.W. Botha in an attempt to move him to commute the death sentences imposed on the

The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft

An earthquake measuring 6.8 strikes Algeria’s northern coast, 70 km east of Algiers. At least 2 200 people are killed in the in

The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft

Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri

President Leon M’ba is restored to power in Gabon by French troops, following an attempted coup led by Jean-Hilaire Aubume.

The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of t

Four people die when a MI-8 MTV helicopter crashes on a building in Cape Town after the tail end had caught an advertising boar

The Citizen reports that an alleged member of the SADF, Isaiah Moyo, was convicted in Lusaka, Zambia, on three counts of espion