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An underground methane explosion occurred at the Trans-Natal Colliery near Ermelo in South Africa on 9 April 1987, killing 35 miners. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References
10 – Ciskei, South Africa and Transkei sign a security pact in Cape Town, prohibiting cross-border violence between the three states. 14 – The home of a police officer in Chesterfield, Durban, comes under grenade attack with no injuries. 15 – A special branch police officer is killed by a sniper and another injured south of Durban in ...
Floods in September 1987 became the deadliest natural disaster in the history of South Africa, with 506 fatalities. A cut-off low moved across South Africa, fueled by moisture from the southeast. [1] Over a five-day period beginning on September 25, parts of Natal province in
Cry Freedom is a 1987 epic biographical drama film directed and produced by Richard Attenborough, set in late-1970s apartheid-era South Africa.The screenplay was written by John Briley based on a pair of books by journalist Donald Woods.
South Africa was under an arms embargo at the time; the South African government therefore had to buy arms clandestinely. [43] Klatzow's theory postulates that the government placed a rocket system in the cargo hold, and that vibration caused the ignition of unstable ammonium perchlorate , which is a chemical compound used as a missile propellant.
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The Johannesburg Magistrate's Court Bombing took place on 20 May 1987 in Johannesburg, in the former Transvaal Province, now in Gauteng.The bombing is often referred to as a massacre [citation needed] in which 4 South African Police members died and a further 15 civilians were injured.