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The 80,000 striking truck drivers and their employers reached an agreement "in principle" about the workers’ wages du
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6 000 teachers from Soweto and Alexandra begin a strike because their grievances are not being addressed. The strike spread to
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More than 10 000 Namibians attend a Windhoek rally to mark the anniversary of the start of SWAPO’s independence struggle.
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An earthquake, measuring 6,5 on the Richter scale, hits Tulbach, Ceres and Wolseley, killing eleven people, leaving 1 000 homel
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An earthquake, measuring 6,5 on the Richter scale, hits Tulbach, Ceres and Wolseley, killing eleven people, leaving 1 000 homel
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Nigeria’s Federal troops have launched a major offensive against multiple targets in Biafra. Despite claims of 2,000 people bei
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Ministers from 109 countries sign a 26,000-page world trade agreement known as the Uruguay Round accords in Morocco.
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Matthews “Loop en Val” Motshwareteu, the Black athlete who broke the national 5 000 m record in Stellenbosch, has, after only f
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Reports of a severe famine in the Usoga region of Uganda suggest at least 4,000 people have already died.
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15,000 Falashas Ethiopian Jews are airlifted from Addis Ababa to Israel as rebel forces approach the Ethiopian capital.
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The South African Government is probing 37 000 public servants who are allegedly receiving various forms of grants fraudulently
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French archaeologists announce the discovery of a 4 000-year-old queen’s pyramid south of Cairo, complete with texts of special
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Bambata Rebellion: Natal Governor Sir Henry McCallum proclaims martial law. Some 1 000 men are mobilised under command of Col D
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Tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia. More than 125,000 people, including several South African touris
ArchiveApplication for amnesty AC/2001/003, A Ismail, Mnisi, Shaik, M Ismail, de Sousa, Moisi, Thobela, 16 January 2001
BiographyZola Budd
Zola Budd was born on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. Budd burst into national prominence in 1983. In 1984 she gained international…
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Some 2 000 men storm King Hassan’s birthday party in Morocco, killing 100 people in an attempted coup; the king survives.
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Krishensamy Pillay, attacked by White hooligans on 21 June, dies in hospital. His funeral is attended by 10 000 people.
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African mineworkers’ strike, led by J.B. Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers’ Union, starts. About 60 000 miners went on s
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Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu in SA.
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WWII: As the Eighth Army abandons Mersa Matruhin, North Africa, Rommel’s forces claim to have captured another 6,000 British t
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Up to 5 000 children still serve in the Ugandan armed forces even though they are officially banned from enlisting, a seni
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Anglo-Boer War 2: After the closure of the mines more than 7 000 Black mineworkers, escorted by Mr J.J. Marwick, representative
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This Day reports that the jobs of about 9 000 mineworkers will be saved after successful negotiations between Harmony Gold and
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Angola says its troops have withdrawn from Huambo after two months of fighting with rebels that left 10,000 dead.
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Violence erupts when 75 000 people march to the Katlehong Town Council offices, protesting against high rent and electricity ra
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Berna Ackerman from Bloemfontein is awarded the ATKV Prose Prize (R20 000) for her novel Liesbet Delport se oorlogsboek.
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According to a report on violence published by the Black Sash Repression Monitoring Group, an estimated 11,000 persons have bee
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The government forfeits 400,000 Pounds Sterling bail when the ‘Coventry four’ fails to appear to answer arms smuggling charges,
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