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… Former defence minister Magnus Malan joins former SA Defence Force chief Constand Viljoen in denying any knowledge of mass grav …

… SA signs an agreement with the USA regarding co-operation in …

… Dr Robert Broom, SA archaeologist and discoverer of the “Mrs Ples” skull at the Sterkfontein Caves, is born in Scotland. …

… soldier and one of the most famous nature conservationists in SA hist …

… Sir John Coode, SA harbour engineer who designed the seaward defences of Table Bay, is born in Bodmin, Cornwallis, England. …

… for the Regulation of Whaling (as amended), to which SA is a party, is signed in Washington, USA. …

… a visiting Frenchman, is the first person to fly in SA. He reaches a height of 6m at East London. …

… United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which SA is a party, is signed in Montego Bay. …

… The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 3-4 against Uruguay in the Confederations Cup, with Lucas Radebe scoring his …

… Hansie Cronje (32), former SA cricket captain, is killed when a light plane in which he was travelling crashes into a mountain …

… Ezrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae, SA artist, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg.  He studied at …

… TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council …

… police arrests Robert McBride, high-ranking official in the SA Department of External Affairs, on the alleged ch …

… Two pilots of the SA Air Force’s Cheetah Squadron, Lieutenant D.A. Ruiter and Captain W.J.J. Badenhorst, are killed in action w …

… Pilots Doug McKellar and "Dizzy" Deans of the SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron, assisting the UN in the …

… William W.P. Selborne (82), British High Commissioner in SA and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony …

… Pretoria News Weekend, 21 Feb 2004. Today in history … SA government opens “whites only” downtown districts of Johannesburg and Durban to all races in the first break with apartheid …

… sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies. …

… discloses that about two-thirds of respondents said SA education is in a crisis an …

… Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, to which SA is a party, is signed in Ra …

… Maggie Laubser, SA painter and receiver of several awards, is born on the farm Bloublommetjieskloof in the district of Malmesbu …

… Gerhardus Smidt (Johan van der Post / Adriaan Roodt), SA short-story writer is born in Frankfort, Orange Free State. …

… Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, SA anthropologist and consul-general of the Orange Free State, is born in Rotterdam, the Nether …

… Neal Stephenson, SA champion body board surfer, loses his leg in a shark attack at Keurbooms River, near Plettenberg Bay, …

… Johannes van der Walt, SA wrestler who was known as the ‘Gemaskerde Wonder’ (Masked Wonder), dies in Johannesburg after being w …

… The SA government announces that the United Nations High … for Refugees (UNHCR) will be requested to help in repatri …

… Indians in SA start a protest under Mohandas Gandhi against new …

… cricket players are prohibited to play for three years in England, because of their rebel tour to SA. …

… and General Secretary of the United Workers’ Union of SA (UWUSA), is born in Melmoth, Natal. …

… Basebetsi be merafong ba batla meputso e lekaneng bakeng sa ho phele ho Chamber of Mines (article written in Xhosa language) …