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Soweto flares into violence again. An estimated £75,000 damage is caused. Incidents are also reported from Cape Town, Pretoria
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More than 150 000 people take part in seventeen marches countrywide organised by COSATU to protest against the Labour Relations
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The pyramids, the Sphinx and other monuments survive Cairo earthquake that kills at least 400 and injures more than 4 000.
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Up to 85 000 people march against the Labour Relations Amendment Act in Uitenhage and demand an end to apartheid.
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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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The Transkei will resist the government’s plan for a mass removal of nearly 20,000 Blacks from the Crossroads settlement near C
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Steven Biko’s funeral in King William’s Town is attended by some 15,000 people. Twelve Western diplomats are present, including
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United Nations deploys 4 000 troops to Katanga to prevent the massacre of Baluba tribesmen by provincial troops and police in C
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United Nations deploys 4 000 troops to Katanga to prevent the massacre of Baluba tribesmen by provincial troops and police in C
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Violent ethnic clashes between Zulus and others, involving circa 10,000 Blacks in running fights start, causing chaos in Soweto
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Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele claims the Olympic men’s 10,000 metres gold in the Athens Olympic Games. His mentor Haile Gebrselass
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Ethiopia’s Kenenisa Bekele claims the Olympic men’s 10,000 metres gold in the Athens Olympic Games. His mentor Haile Gebrselass
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Further trouble erupts at a funeral in Soweto when a crowd of 4,000 attacks police. Retaliatory fire causes deaths and injuries
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The Rwanda Genocide. At least 500,000 are reported as dead from the fighting between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says conditions are appalling for the estimated 100 000 Rwandan refugees that are being denied
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The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Netherlands, defines the 1 000-km shared border between Ethiopia and Eritr
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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs addresses 15 000 people on the steps of the Johannesburg City Hall during a protest meeting organise
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Former information officer of the SADF, Brig. J. Bosman, reveals in Parliament that one third of the 3 000 troops involved in S
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By this deadline for the receipt of applications for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission almost 8,000 applicatio
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The Government states in Parliament that 18,000 persons have been arrested and detained since the proclamation of the emergency
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500,000 people attend a papal mass in Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th century Madag
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500,000 people attend a papal mass in Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th century Madag
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says conditions are appalling for the estimated 100 000 Rwandan refugees that are being denied
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The first genocide trials begin in Kigali, Rwanda, against some of the 30 000 majority Hutus accused of killing Tutsis.
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President Thabo Mbeki and the minister of justice are facing a R550 000 civil damages claim after a convicted murderer kil
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President George Bush orders about 28,000 US troops to Somalia to block warring Somali gangs from intercepting food shipments.
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Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during
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Up to 1 000 delegates from SA and overseas meet for the Pan-Africanist Congress’s first national conference inside the cou
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A three-month campaign to register Coloured voters ends with only approximately half of the total of 700,000 qualified voters r
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