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Five American nuns in Liberia are shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings are blamed on rebels loyal to Charles T
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’Black reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973’, Statement by Oliver Tambo to the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Syracuse, 1 March 1973
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The University of Stellenbosch alumni decide not to ask for a review of the decision to confer an honorary doctorate on Bram Fi
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President Thabo Mbeki is consulting with west African leaders ahead of an emergency trip to Ivory Coast to settle the latest un
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South African Airways (SAA) announces that it will not fly to Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) due to disturbances in the c
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Five American nuns in Liberia are shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings are blamed on rebels loyal to Charles T
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Mr Justice W.H. Heath finds Bonakele Jwabi and fifteen other men guilty of murder relating to the abduction and burning to deat
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The British actors’ union, Equity, decides to retain its ban on the sale of television and other recorded material to South Afr
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The Africa Union (AU) summit opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and agrees to send 300 AU troops to protect ceasefire monitors in
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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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President De Klerk offers to lower the margin of approval needed for changes in South Africa’s constitution from 75 per cent to
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African slaves being shipped to Cuba, revolt and seize the ship Amistad, leading to the eventual end of the African slave marke
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Brigadier Hertzog Lerm, up to now commissioner of the Ndebele Police Force who also acted as private secretary to the chief min
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Buffelshoek, a council of war adopts De Wet’s proposal to reduce the number of wagons to one per twenty-
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Friends Of The Earth offers to pay for Environment Minister Michael Meacher to attend the Earth Summit in South Africa after re
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The Supreme Court of Appeal refuses to allow the Western Cape education MEC to compel an Afrikaans-medium school, Mikro, in Kui
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The Minister of Local Government in Kwazulu-Natal applies to the Supreme Court to have voting in four rural areas declared null
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South African White extremist Eugene Terre’Blanche is sentenced to six years in jail for trying to murder a Black man and assau
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The Star reports that Mrs Albert Sisulu was granted a passport to meet United States president George Bus, and to visit the wif
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The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (BAAM) holds an 11-hour rock concert at Wembley Stadium in London to pay tribute to Nelson
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The Government Gazette announces an extension to the provisions of the 1964 Tear Gas Act to widen the range of those empowered
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A group of San male prisoners, being escorted from Boshof to Bloemfontein to be tried, is stopped by a group of thirty armed Wh
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Let us March Together to Freedom Opening address to the Sixth Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, February 21, 1953
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A human leg falls from a South African Airways plane on to a suburban New York home as the aircraft prepares to land at John F
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Shortly before midnight five men drown and two are washed out to sea during what was supposed to be a routine baptism ceremony
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Two young lions are dispatched from Cape Town to Ceylon as a gift to the King of Kandy. http://www.news24.com
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Henry Warden orders the British troops to be moved from Philippolis to Bloemfontein, the farm about which he has written the pr
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South Africa is to expand its military call-up to include all White men aged between seventeen and sixty-five, almost doubling
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Dr David Livingstone, SA explorer and missionary, generally accepted to be the first White man to see the Victoria Falls is bor
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