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Azapo (Azanian People’s Organisation) is established in Roodepoort for the second time, after the first founding in 1977 did no
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The United Nations (UN) tribunal on Rwanda sentences former prime minister Jean Kambanda to life imprisonment for his role in t
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A new UN force with a wider mandate takes over from the French-led force in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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A new UN force with a wider mandate takes over from the French-led force in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Residents of Peelton receive an undertaking in the Ciskei Supreme Court, Bisho, that no unlawful arrest or harassment by police
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The UN Security Council ends sanctions against Sudan. The sanctions had been imposed in 1996 after Sudan refused to extradite s
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The UN Security Council ends sanctions against Sudan. The sanctions had been imposed in 1996 after Sudan refused to extradite s
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The UN and UNAIDS, its Aids programme, issues a progress report on how member nations were adhering to commitments made during
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UN-sponsored conference on Lagos condemns apartheid but falls short of calling for complete economic en military boycott of SA.
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Disclosure of Foreign Funding Act No 26, providing for the regulation of foreign donations by or for certain organisations and
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Miloon Kothari, the UN special rapporteur on adequate housing, says most of those displaced by President Robert Mugabe’s May 20
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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 UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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The NP accuses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of bias and announces it will no longer co-operate with it.
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The second plenary session of CODESA (CODESA II) is convened in Johannesburg. The UN delegation sent by the Secretary-General t
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Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews, SA academic, ANC politician and Botswana’s first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, die
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The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei
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UN Security Council extends sanctions imposed on Liberia in 2001 for allegedly aiding rebels in Sierra Leone. The sanctions inc
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General Law Amendment Act No 37 commences. Section 17, the ninety-day detention law, authorises any commissioned officer to det
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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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Rampaging troops kill Rwanda’s acting premier and eleven Belgian UN soldiers and civil war erupts in Rwanda, a day after a myst
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The UN General Assembly presses Britain, France and Israel for withdrawal of their troops from Egypt. The United States joins t
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Gunmen kidnap five aid workers from the U.N. and European Union in Somalia. They are released unharmed three days later.
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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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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) joined the offices of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in South Africa
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The United Nations announces that South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will head a UN fact-finding mission to Gaza’s Beit
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The United Nations (UN) General Assembly appoints Kofi Annan of Ghana to a five-year term as secretary-general, beginning 1 Jan
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SA signs agreement with the UN and the Commission of the European Union concerning the legal status, privileges and immunities
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