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South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on

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The Sowetan reports that a petition, signed by 30 000 White South Africans, calling for all sports venues to be opened to all r

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£100 000 worth of gold that went missing on the Cape Town Castle, is found near the ship’s engine room in Durban.

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The western wing of Munitoria burns down and 5 000 municipal workers are requested by authorities to stay away from work the ne

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Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k

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More than 100,000 persons attend a rally in Durban addressed by Nelson Mandela, who urges his followers to end the factional wa

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The Prime Minister condemns, in the strongest terms, a gift of $450,000 announced by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to Sou

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The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash in Rwanda, setting off the slaughter of 500 000 Rwandans, most

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The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has predicted that 1,200,000 people in Ethiopia are about to starve to death.

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Aid officials report that the death toll may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against

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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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The first of more than 100 persons to die during the ‘Seven Day’s War’, is murdered outside Pietermaritzburg. About 30,000 peop

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At a rally in the Tugela Ferry district of Kwazulu-Natal some 6,000 lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters come armed with figh

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Cyprian Solomon, paramount chief of the Zulus, warns 20,000 of his people not to participate in the defiance campaign and says

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More than 10 000 mourners gather in strife-torn Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The

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About 50 000 people are present at the burial of Johannes van der Walt, well-known wrestler and hero, in Melville, Johannesburg

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The UN reports that over 200,000 Hutu refugees are fleeing into the hills to escape the conflict between the Zaire military and

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The second general election is held in the Union of South Africa. The South African Party gets 94 000 votes. The National Party

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The Castillo de Bellver spills 250 000 ton of oil in the sea at Cape Town after it caught fire in Saldana Bay.

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Chief Sabata Dalindyebo is reburied in the Transkei in a funeral attended by 40 000 people. He died in self-imposed exile in Za

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Dr. Verwoerd is buried in Hero’s Acre, Pretoria. A crowd of some 250,000 people watches the mile-long cortege on its three-mile

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Ugandan military ruler Idi Amin, 78, who presided over an eight-year reign of terror from 1971-1979, where an estimated 300 000

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The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, having been withheld in that year, is given to Albert Schweitzer. With the $33,000 prize money,

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The results of an opinion poll indicate that more than 160 000 White South African adults plan to leave the country within the

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WWII British 8th Army opens offensive in North Africa by attacking Sidi Barrani in Egypt. They seize 1,000 Italians in a sudden

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The head of the United Nations (UN) commission on Rwanda concludes that genocide in the country in this year cost 500,000 lives

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South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on

The Sowetan reports that a petition, signed by 30 000 White South Africans, calling for all sports venues to be opened to all r

£100 000 worth of gold that went missing on the Cape Town Castle, is found near the ship’s engine room in Durban.

The western wing of Munitoria burns down and 5 000 municipal workers are requested by authorities to stay away from work the ne

Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k

More than 100,000 persons attend a rally in Durban addressed by Nelson Mandela, who urges his followers to end the factional wa

The Prime Minister condemns, in the strongest terms, a gift of $450,000 announced by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to Sou

The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash in Rwanda, setting off the slaughter of 500 000 Rwandans, most

The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has predicted that 1,200,000 people in Ethiopia are about to starve to death.

Aid officials report that the death toll may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against

UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar

The first of more than 100 persons to die during the ‘Seven Day’s War’, is murdered outside Pietermaritzburg. About 30,000 peop

At a rally in the Tugela Ferry district of Kwazulu-Natal some 6,000 lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters come armed with figh

Cyprian Solomon, paramount chief of the Zulus, warns 20,000 of his people not to participate in the defiance campaign and says

More than 10 000 mourners gather in strife-torn Katlehong township near Alberton to bury fourteen victims of the taxi war. The

About 50 000 people are present at the burial of Johannes van der Walt, well-known wrestler and hero, in Melville, Johannesburg

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The UN reports that over 200,000 Hutu refugees are fleeing into the hills to escape the conflict between the Zaire military and

The second general election is held in the Union of South Africa. The South African Party gets 94 000 votes. The National Party

The Castillo de Bellver spills 250 000 ton of oil in the sea at Cape Town after it caught fire in Saldana Bay.

Chief Sabata Dalindyebo is reburied in the Transkei in a funeral attended by 40 000 people. He died in self-imposed exile in Za

Dr. Verwoerd is buried in Hero’s Acre, Pretoria. A crowd of some 250,000 people watches the mile-long cortege on its three-mile

Ugandan military ruler Idi Amin, 78, who presided over an eight-year reign of terror from 1971-1979, where an estimated 300 000

The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, having been withheld in that year, is given to Albert Schweitzer. With the $33,000 prize money,

The results of an opinion poll indicate that more than 160 000 White South African adults plan to leave the country within the

WWII British 8th Army opens offensive in North Africa by attacking Sidi Barrani in Egypt. They seize 1,000 Italians in a sudden

The head of the United Nations (UN) commission on Rwanda concludes that genocide in the country in this year cost 500,000 lives