1994 At midnight Walvisbaai is officially handed over to Namibia. Three wounded Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging members are murdered by a Bophuthatswana Defence Force soldier. South Africas new national flag, designed by State Heraldist Fred Brownell, is unveiled. The Shell House massacre occurs when security guards at the African National Congress headquarters in Johannesburg open fire on demonstrators. Presidents Juvénal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi die when their jet is shot down near Kigali, sparking the Rwandan Genocide. Three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna dies during the San Marino Grand Prix. The Channel Tunnel opens between England and France. Nelson Mandela is sworn in as the first post-apartheid President of South Africa. Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside O.J. Simpsons home in Los Angeles. The planet Jupiter is hit by 21 large fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The car ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852. A planned correction of the Mexican peso to the US dollar becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico. And in December Spoornet takes delivery of the last of ten locally manufactured Class 14E1 dual voltage electric mainline locomotives.
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