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The South African Police Service (SAPS) launches a National Bureau for Missing Persons to render supportive service to investig
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The Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam decides to send French Huguenot refugees to the Cape for settlement.
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A Gauteng businessman, who is believed to be linked to an international nuclear weapons smuggling organisation, has been arrest
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Three thousand people march to the South African Broadcasting Corporation in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, to demand the establi
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South Africa’s new Ambassador to the United Nations, Adriaan (Riaan) Eksteen, presents his credentials to the secretary-general
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Ugandan prime minister Dr Samson Kisekka appeals to the people to help clean up Kampala, the capital city.
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Forty members are elected to Lebowa’s Legislative Assembly, the remaining sixty seats being allocated to nominated chiefs. Cedr
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Forty members are elected to Lebowa’s Legislative Assembly, the remaining sixty seats being allocated to nominated chiefs. Cedr
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A total of thirty-two organisations join to form the United Democratic Front (UDF) to oppose the constitutional proposals.
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A total of thirty-two organisations join to form the United Democratic Front (UDF) to oppose the constitutional proposals.
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Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.
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Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.
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R.H. Strachan is found guilty of conspiring to cause bomb explosions and is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment.
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Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko leaves the rebel-threatened capital and flees to Gabon to meet African leaders.
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Forty members are elected to Lebowa’s Legislative Assembly, the remaining sixty seats being allocated to nominated chiefs. Cedr
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Warring factions in Rwanda agree to form an interim government in an effort to halt bloodletting in Kigali.
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The National Research Foundation (NRF) is established as autonomous body to provide services and grants to support postgraduate
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The National Research Foundation (NRF) is established as autonomous body to provide services and grants to support postgraduate
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that, contrary to previous indications, the constitutional proposals will be put to a refer
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Agreement signed between Britain and Rhodesia to give Blacks greater political rights which should eventually lead to majority
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SA plans to spend R1, 9-billion on antiretroviral drugs to Aids patients. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria News, 19 November.
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4,000 Black postal workers have refused to give oaths of loyalty to Ian Smith’s government in Rhodesia.
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Application in Venda of Certain South African Laws Relating to Transition to Democracy Proclamation No 26 commences, recognisin
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A national strike paralyses Zimbabwe. Bowing to growing demonstrations, the government gives up plans for new taxes to finance
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Application in Transkei of Certain South African Laws Relating to Transitional Democracy, Decree No 13, giving recognition to t
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Chad breaks links to Libya in protest to their support of Muslim guerrillas currently fighting in northern Chad.
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Governor Isbrand Goske dispatches an expedition to Hottentots Holland to decide whether the district is suitable for permanent
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Winnie Mandela, restricted to a Black township at Brandfort (Orange Free State), is sentenced to six months’ imprisonment (susp
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South African and Saudi Arabian envoys hold talks with Colonel Gaddafi to try to resolve the Lockerbie checkmate.
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