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The General Assembly decides in resolution 2142A (XXI) to proclaim 21 March as the International Day for the Elimination of Rac
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The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid decides to issue an appeal to member states and organisations
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South Africa signs multilateral treaty for protection of performers, producers of phonograms and broadcasting organisations.
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An attempted assassination on Egyptian President Gamal Nasser fails.
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Bishop Hamilton Mvumelwano, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and President of the SA Council of Chur
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George Msimang, SA artist, is born in Durban, Natal.
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Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (41), SA poet, dies in Johannesburg.
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At the request of the Government of India, the General Assembly decides to include in its agenda an item entitled: "Treatm
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Karel Schoeman, well-known SA author and recipient of several awards, is born in Trompsburg, OFS.
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Internationally known Justice Richard J. Goldstone, from July 1994 to October 2003 Justice of the Constitutional Court of South
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Solomon Porter Hood is named minister to Liberia.
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Dr Anton Carlisle Hartman, SA musician and director, is born in Krugersdorp.
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Gideon Roos, SA actor, broadcaster and co-founder of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), is born in Worcester, CC.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Gerhardus Hendrik (Gert) Gravette is fatally wounded near Roossenekal, OFS.
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Italy concedes Ethiopia’s independence by Treaty of Addis Ababa after a crushing defeat at Adwa earlier in the year.
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The first weather service is instituted in South Africa.
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Sir George Albu, co-founder of General Mining and Finance, is born in Berlin, Germany.
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Governor of the Cape Sir Harry Smith deposes Xhosa King Sandile after his refusal to appear at talks, which Sir Harry held with
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The Lords 17 stops further immigration to the Cape.
EventThe first pineapples are planted in South Africa
The first pineapples are planted in SA.
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In a precedent-setting judgment, a full Bench of the Cape High Court rules in favour of the SABC’s request to televise Mark Tha
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Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang attends the 2nd National Health Providers’ Prayer Day, which is intended to take care
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South African author J.M. Coetzee wins England’s prestige book prize, the Booker prize for fiction, for the second time, this t
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Western Province wins the rugby Currie Cup by beating Free State 14-12 in Newlands, Cape Town.
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Thirty-three people die at Mandini, KwaZulu-Natal North Coast, when a passenger bus collides with a petrol road tanker.
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SA is formally invited to rejoin the Commonwealth in 1994.
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About 90 anti-apartheid movements, claiming to represent more than 15 million South Africans, establish a "patriotic unite
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The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr
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The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr
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