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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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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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Zairian rebels order 20 000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the a

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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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The Netherlands Foreign Minister Dr. Luns says in The Hague that the Dutch government’s gift of 20,000 Pounds Sterling to the D

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The Natal Witness reports that 12 000 candidates who had passed the matriculation examination at the end of 1987, had been unab

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The Natal Witness reports that 12 000 candidates who had passed the matriculation examination at the end of 1987, had been unab

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The Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra. The war claimed some 600,000 lives. About 1 million di

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EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe

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Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga

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Germany apologises for the massacre of some 65 000 Hereros in South-West Africa (Namibia) by their soldiers during the 1904 reb

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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Ian Hamilton, commanding a force of about 6 000 men with twenty-six field guns, is sent to capture Co

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The government is reported to have paid the family of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, R65, 000 in settlement of claims

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A total of 1 004 persons consisting of 849 burghers and boys, 152 women and girls, two Coloureds and one Black man, cross the b

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More than 35 000 people force central Cape Town to a standstill as they march peacefully from St George’s Cathedral to the city

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In the Anglo-Egyptian War Lord [Sir Herbert] Kitchener’s force of 25,000 decisively defeats the Dervishes at the Battle of Omdu

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About 2 000 slave owners meet in Cape Town to complain against new slave regulations to be implemented at the Cape, claiming th

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On the afternoon of 17 January 1879 the Zulu king Cetshwayo (Cetewayo) addresses 20 000 of his warriors at the great military k

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The Star reports that the two biggest unions in the financial sector, the 34 000-strong South African Society of Bank Officials

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The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and hundreds of Russian-built T-34 tanks cross the border into S

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About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, march to the Union Buildings to protest about the South African involvemen

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The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers. Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb

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The 150th celebration of the founding of Pretoria (on 16 November 1855) is celebrated by more than 7 000 mainly Afrikaans-speak

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EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe

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John William Burchell arrives in England from an expedition to SA and St Helena, with 60 000 natural-historical samples and 500

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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

The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi

Senator Owen Horwood announces a 36% rise in proposed defence expenditure, the defence budget being raised to R948, 122,000. Th

The African National Congress (ANC) leads a march through central Durban, attended by up to 100,000 people, to demand their vot

Zairian rebels order 20 000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the a

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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The Netherlands Foreign Minister Dr. Luns says in The Hague that the Dutch government’s gift of 20,000 Pounds Sterling to the D

The Natal Witness reports that 12 000 candidates who had passed the matriculation examination at the end of 1987, had been unab

The Natal Witness reports that 12 000 candidates who had passed the matriculation examination at the end of 1987, had been unab

The Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra. The war claimed some 600,000 lives. About 1 million di

EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe

Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga

Germany apologises for the massacre of some 65 000 Hereros in South-West Africa (Namibia) by their soldiers during the 1904 reb

Anglo-Boer War 2: General Ian Hamilton, commanding a force of about 6 000 men with twenty-six field guns, is sent to capture Co

The government is reported to have paid the family of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, R65, 000 in settlement of claims

A total of 1 004 persons consisting of 849 burghers and boys, 152 women and girls, two Coloureds and one Black man, cross the b

More than 35 000 people force central Cape Town to a standstill as they march peacefully from St George’s Cathedral to the city

In the Anglo-Egyptian War Lord [Sir Herbert] Kitchener’s force of 25,000 decisively defeats the Dervishes at the Battle of Omdu

About 2 000 slave owners meet in Cape Town to complain against new slave regulations to be implemented at the Cape, claiming th

On the afternoon of 17 January 1879 the Zulu king Cetshwayo (Cetewayo) addresses 20 000 of his warriors at the great military k

The Star reports that the two biggest unions in the financial sector, the 34 000-strong South African Society of Bank Officials

The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and hundreds of Russian-built T-34 tanks cross the border into S

About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, march to the Union Buildings to protest about the South African involvemen

The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers. Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb

The 150th celebration of the founding of Pretoria (on 16 November 1855) is celebrated by more than 7 000 mainly Afrikaans-speak

EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe

John William Burchell arrives in England from an expedition to SA and St Helena, with 60 000 natural-historical samples and 500