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ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela warns that if the SA government fails to take effective steps to end the current violence i
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Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, is b
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India announces the plan to open a cultural centre in South Africa empowered to discharge consular functions. It will be the fi
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President Nelson Mandela says that in order to promote national unity he was willing to bring into government those who remain
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US President George W Bush takes steps to restore normal trade and investment ties with Libya as a reward to Muammar Gaddafi fo
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French, Algerian, and Senegalese troops are to be sent to help put down the tribesmen revolt in Morocco. However, Germany has p
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Several thousand mourners gather at a state funeral in Congo to pay tribute to 109 people killed in a series of mysterious airp
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In answer to a question by St John Brodrick, Lord Kitchener admits providing firearms to 10 053 Africans and
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Thousands of Blacks take to the streets in South Africa to protest the assassination of There are calls amongst protesters for
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Thousands of Blacks take to the streets in South Africa to protest the assassination of There are calls amongst protesters for
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Louis Botha is to be the Union of South Africa’s first prime minister. Herbert Gladstone, governor-general, asks him to const
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Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire’s 66-year old dictator flies to Gabon to attend a regional leaders’ meeting, denying that he was fleein
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Presidents Joaquim Chissano and Nelson Mandela sign an agreement to allow South African farmers to settle and farm land in Moza
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President F. W. de Klerk announces plans to revise some provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1982. He also offers to incl
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Nigeria’s former deputy leader, Gen Oladipyo Diya, and five others are sentenced to death by firing squad for plotting to overt
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act
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The Constitution Bill is given its first reading and is referred back to the Constitutional Committee for amendments to be cons
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The Constitution Bill is given its first reading and is referred back to the Constitutional Committee for amendments to be cons
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US President George W Bush takes steps to restore normal trade and investment ties with Libya as a reward to Muammar Gaddafi fo
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French, Algerian, and Senegalese troops are to be sent to help put down the tribesmen revolt in Morocco. However, Germany has p
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Lord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as governor with a mandate to further develop the colony and to improve conditions fo
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The Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), Act 1 of 1999, comes into effect. It requires all State departments to adhere to norm
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The names of the four ‘homelands’ are changed: from Basotho ha Borwa (Southern Sotho) to Basotho-Qwaqwa; from Tswanaland to Bop
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UN Security Council votes to ban flights and arms sales to Libya, branding it a terrorist state for shielding six men accused o
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Nigerian police fire tear gas to quell a riot, which erupts after officers shot dead a bus driver who refused to pay a bribe. F
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Swaziland and Lesotho take steps to clear themselves of suspicion of allowing insurgents of the ANC to use their territory as s
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Zacharias Wagenaer, successor of Jan van Riebeeck, writes to the Lords 17 suggesting that sixty-seven families be sent back to
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The Defence Minister denies that South Africa has sent troops to Malawi to quell the security threat on Malawi’s southern borde
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