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Egypt denies it has a secret nuclear weapons programme in an angry response to reports that the UN atomic watchdog agency is in
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Representation of Blacks Act No 12, removing Black voters in the Cape from the common roll and placing them on a separate roll,
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The UN Security Council imposes an eighteen-month diamond ban on Sierra Leone’s rebels in a bid to strangle their ability to fi
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Speech by Nelson Mandela, President of the Republic of South Africa, at the UN World Summit for Social Development 12 March 1995
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation is inaugurated, set up in terms of the Broadcasting Act (Act no 22 of 1936). It broa
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The United Nations (UN) Security Council calls on members for troops to aid South Korea. In October 1950 South Africa sent its
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Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org
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The South African Parliament votes to amend the Internal Security Act No. 74 of 1982. Police will in future need the permission
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In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their
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De Grundel, a ninety-ton coastal vessel of the Dutch East India Company, is wrecked near Cape Hangklip. No lives are lost. The
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The HNP’s policies are defined by its leader, Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the
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Document 72 - “A landmark in South Africa’s History: The Sixth National Conference of the South African Communist Party”, International Bulletin, no. 4, December 1962
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APDUSA Views - Issue No 69: Shameless Opportunism - Allows Jack Straw to get Away with the Murder of Innocent Iraqis, 15 May 2003
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President Mandela vows ‘to leave no stone unturned’ in finding the truth behind the air crash ten years before that killed Moza
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United Nations (UN) forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking north
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The UN Security Council bans sales of arms and fuel to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) because
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The Foreign Minister of France said at a press conference in Nairobi that no new contract for arms sales to South Africa could
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The first general election in the Union of South Africa takes place. General Louis Botha becomes first Prime Minister of the Un
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The SA delegation to the UN walks out during the debate on apartheid, claiming that it is interfering with SA domestic affairs.
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The United Nations (UN) comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 (51?) nations. SA premier Jan
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A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy
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Two delegates of the UN, Dr Victorio Carpio and Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, visit South West Africa (now Namibia) after talk
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Sierra Leone rebels seize peacekeepers from Zambia, raising to more than 300 the number of UN personnel they are believed to be
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Prince James Mahlangu is elected as new chief minister of KwaNdebele after a motion of no confidence in Mr Mabena was passed in
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UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar
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World Food Program warns the UN Security Council that a record 38 million people were at risk of starvation in Africa. The sout
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The search for survivors from the Helderberg SAA 747 crash into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius is called off. No survivors have
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Robert Koch, German scientist who visited SA to investigate the causes of rinderpest, is born in Germany. He was awarded the No
BiographyIsmail Mahomed
Ismail Mahomed was born in Prinsloo Street Pretoria on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of devoutly…
BiographyDorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia, and her mother, Liza Mafuyani, was…