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Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 metres in less than 27 minutes.
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An international panel led by Philip Heymann, Director of the Harvard Law School Centre for Criminal Justice, proposes changes
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The International Cricket Council agrees to grant full membership to the United Cricket Board of South Africa, which will allow
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President Bush lifts certain US trade sanctions against South Africa, making it possible for the two nations to engage in trade
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Foreign Minister R.F. (Pik) Botha signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) on behalf of South Africa. Agre
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SA ratifies the Convention on Assistance in the case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency; also ratifies Convention
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The SA Police and the Defence Force ambush and kill six alleged Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) members near Alldays.
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Four British men are jailed for conspiring to smuggle military components into South Africa.
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A military coup takes place in Mauritania.
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Dr S.J. du Toit, chief inspector of schools in the OFS, dies.
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The lengthy and expensive trial of Laurence Gandar and Benjamin Pogrund, of the Rand Daily Mail, on charges under the Prisons A
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The International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF), at its meeting in Monte Carlo, rejects a Russian resolution to expel the South
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The Netherlands Foreign Minister Dr. Luns says in The Hague that the Dutch government’s gift of 20,000 Pounds Sterling to the D
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Moïse-Kapenda Tshombe, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, becomes prime minister of the Democratic
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SA signs the International Wheat Agreement.
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Ulrich Louis (Uli) Schmidt, SA rugby player and later Springbok team doctor, is born in Pretoria.
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Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) soldier executed for murder in 1979, is born in Mamelodi, Pretoria.
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Robey Leibbrandt and six other appear in the supreme court on a charge of high treason.
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Sponono Francina Baloyi, nurse, current ANC MP and former Minister of Health and Welfare, KaNgwane, is born.
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Dawie de Villiers, Springbok rugby captain and later cabinet minister, is born.
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Representation of Blacks Act No 12, removing Black voters in the Cape from the common roll and placing them on a separate roll,
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Robert Hector Catterall, SA cricket player in twenty-four test matches, is born in Port Elizabeth.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Lawson reports that the De Beer and Van Rooyen’s commando, raiding the upper Tugela from the Free State,
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In a letter to Lord Roberts, Chief Commandant de Wet protests against the indiscriminate destruction of priva
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Queensland, Australia, offers military aid to Britain.
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During the years of territorial disputes between France and Britain in Africa, a French expedition under Jean-Batiste Marchand
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João Albasini (75), elephant-hunter, trader and White chief of the Magwamba tribe, dies in the Soutpansberg district.
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Dr George Lindsay Johnson, SA ophthalmologist and authority on the eyes of animals, is born in England.
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Sir Marshall Campbell, SA sugar pioneer, is born in Glasgow.
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