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… Penny Heyns, SA swimming star, is born in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents …

… Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in Their Natural State, to which SA is a party, is …

… cricket team achieves the highest fourth innings ever in SA provincial cricket by scoring 443/4 against Natal Do …

… on the Protection of New Varieties of Plants, to which SA is a party, is signed in Paris, France. …

… Assembly of the UN adopts a resolution, initiated by SA, on ‘The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict’ by consensu …

… Sir Laurens van der Post (90), SA born explorer, author and mentor of Britain’s Prince Charles, dies in Chelsea, England. The d …

… William Ewart Gladstone (W.E.G.) Louw, SA poet and literator and younger brother of N.P. van Wyk Louw, is born in Sutherland. …

… According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the …

… Todd Tozama Matshikiza, SA musician, composer and writer, dies in Lusaka, Zambia. He composed the music and wrote some of …

… A ‘timeless’ cricket test match (the only one ever) between SA and England starts in Durban and continues until the 14th.   E …

… SA signs agreement with the government of Namibia relating to the promotion of co-operation in the field of administration of j …

… Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English, …

… André Stander, SA’s suave heist man and bank robber, flees to Fort Lauderdale in the US using a false passport. Allan He …

… WWII: SA prime minister, General Jan Smuts, asks parliament’s … approval to send troops to Europe, contrary to his promise in 193 …

… SA Protea captain Graeme Smith scores his second hundred in …

… Vincent Baloyi, SA artist, is born in Newclare, Johannesburg. He joined the …

… Sydney Alex Kumalo (also documented as Khumalo), SA artist, is born in Johannesburg.  He began studying at Polly Street Art Ce …

… Ruben Xulu SA artist is born in Hlabisa, Natal.  Xulu, born deaf, began …

… Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, with Lucas Radebe replacing Neil Tovey as captain, wins 2-1 against the former Zaire in a Wo …

… the Dutch East Indies Company and scout of the interior of SA, is born in Dinkelsbühl, G …

… the Dutch East Indies Company and scout of the interior of SA, is born in Dinkelsbühl, G …

… African churches are the largest single group of churches in SA, accounting for a fifth of al …

… ’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 …

… Lawrence George Green (72), SA author of mainly travel books, dies in Cape Town. Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of Sou …

… of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) arrives in SA as head of a delegation of …

… Two pilots of SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron, assisting the United Nations in the Korean War, blast a convoy of …

… Thomas Thornton becomes the first air passenger in SA when he pays Albert Kimmerling £100 for a short flight …

… Jahleel Brenton, SA artist and marine officer after whom the islands Brenton and Jahleel were called, is born in Warwick, Engla …

… Lucas Radebe, SA born soccer star, twists his right knee in a Champions …

… Pan-Africanism and the Rastafari Movement.  He was born in Jamaica on 17 August 1887, and as a young man developed a … Times and Orient Review, where he developed his ideas on black unity. Upon his return to Jamaica in 1914, he founded … in the hopes of raising funds to establish a private black university in Jamaica. Two years after his arrival in …