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Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in Meadowlands. The
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British, under General Warren, surrenders to General Botha at Spioenkop. At least 1 000 British and sixty
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The South African Tsunami Relief Fund hands over a first bulk donation of R700 000 to the International Red Cross.
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Richard Philip (Dick) King, pioneer settler of Natal who travelled nearly 1 000 km in ten days on horseback to deliver despatch
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King Hassan launches the ‘Green March’ with 350,000 unarmed Moroccans waving flags and copies of the Koran, crossing into Weste
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About 10 000 taxi operators march to the Union Buildings, in Pretoria to hand over a memorandum of their grievances and members
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Over 5,000 soldiers supported by tanks, armoured cars and air force units begin manoeuvres in an exercise code named Operation
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The government instructs its Ambassador to The Hague to inform the Dutch government of its displeasure over a grant of 100,000
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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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King Hassan launches the ‘Green March’ with 350,000 unarmed Moroccans waving flags and copies of the Koran, crossing into Weste
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Egypt demands the Soviet Union remove its 20,000 advisers from the country, accusing it of failing to supply promised arms.
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Three motorcars are burned, another twenty damaged and an auditorium set alight when 3 000 members of the National Union of Min
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The UN Security Council urges the world to aid the estimated 250 000 Hutu refugees from Rwanda crushed into Goma, Zaire.
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A total of 21 000 driving licences will have to be cancelled after a former Limpopo traffic officer, M.S. Pela, appears in cour
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Senator Owen Horwood announces a 36% rise in proposed defence expenditure, the defence budget being raised to R948, 122,000. Th
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The African National Congress (ANC) leads a march through central Durban, attended by up to 100,000 people, to demand their vot
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About 10 000 people march to the president’s office in Thohoyandou, carrying a human skull believed to be that of a ritual murd
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A young Pretoria couple starts legal action against 1 Military Hospital for at least R800 000 for trauma and shock, when a doct
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Buller, with 12,000 men and forty-eight guns, attack Gen. Botha’s position at Paardeplaats, near Lyden
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Mozambique’s southern province of Inhambane warns that 100 000 people in the province are at risk of starvation because poor ra
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Haile Gebrselassie, long distance Ethiopian athlete and the first to run the 5 000 m in less than thirteen minutes and the 10 0
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About 5 000 people gather on the Parade in Cape town to protest against the decision of Lord Grey, British colonial minister, t
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Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are already infected with th
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Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international internet competition in which more than 20 000 lea
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Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international internet competition in which more than 20 000 lea
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The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi
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Over 7,000 people attend a rally in Pretoria to mark the foundation on 4 May 1984 of the Afrikaner Volkswag (People’s Guard), a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f
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