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On 19 January 1984, the Stander gang robs three banks in less than an hour in the Johannesburg city centre. The Stander ...
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In February 2000, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe spearheaded the Fast-Track Resettlement Program. The campaign meant...
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On 11 March 1994 hundreds of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) members drove into Bophu...
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In 1913, Black women in Bloemfontein were experiencing the culmination of heavy pass laws being implemented to control t...
On 26 March 1942, an article was published by an Afrikaner political correspondent of the Nationalist newspaper, Die Bur...
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On 24 October 1958, South African storyteller Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born in Kwazulu-Natal S...
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