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Petrus Lafras (Piet) Uys, Voortrekker leader, is born in the district of Swellendam.
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Anna Boshoff (75), second eldest child of the late Dr H.F. Verwoerd and his wife Betsie, dies in the Kimberley-Medi-Clinic. She
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Police fire tear gas at unruly fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a
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Pres. Nelson Mandela leaves for England on his first state visit to that country (9 – 13 July).
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Ex-Police Commissioner General Johan van der Merwe implicates Deputy President F.W. de Klerk in being informed about a ‘dirty t
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The SA rugby team loses the first test in Dunedin against New Zealand 14-22.
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses against Cameroon 1-2 in a home match.
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Chief Julius Matatu, former Transkei minister and prominent traditional leader, is shot and killed at his home in Mqanduli, Tra
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The British actors’ union, Equity, decides to retain its ban on the sale of television and other recorded material to South Afr
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SA, suspended since 1964, rejoins the International Olympic Committee and is allowed to take part in the next Olympic Games to
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A Venda schoolteacher, Mr Mkosi Mavhina, is found hanging from a tree 20km from his home. A post-mortem examination reveals tha
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Sixty-one White South Africans, mainly from the Afrikaans community, meet the ANC in Dakar (9-12 July), in search of a democrat
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Mozambique and the Soviet Union reject the findings of the Margo Commission on the air disaster in which Pres. Samora Machel wa
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The Minister of Home Affairs of KwaNdebele, Piet Ntuli, is killed in a car bomb explosion in the homeland. The date of this e
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Chad and Zaire sign an agreement on military co-operation.
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SA signs Protocol amending the International Convention for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas.
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Professor Arthur Edward Herbert Bleksley, mathematician and astronomer, dies in Johannesburg.
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Uganda asks the United Nations (UN) to condemn the Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe.
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Some 2 000 men storm King Hassan’s birthday party in Morocco, killing 100 people in an attempted coup; the king survives.
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The University Christian Movement ‘s (UCM) Second Annual Conference, held at Stutterheim (9-15 July), is attended by 150 studen
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A Royal Air Force Valiant under Wing Commander M.J. Beetham sets a new record for the London-Cape Town flight, completing the j
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A month-long cease-fire ends in the Middle East as Egypt attacks Israeli positions by air. At the same time Iraq attacks by lan
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Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph, SA composer, is born.
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The Hitler youth movement is prohibited in South-West Africa.
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The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC’s nominee to the
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WWI: Dr Theodore Seitz, governor of German South West Africa, surrenders at the farm Khorab, between Otavi and Tsumeb, to Gen.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: ‘Long Cecil’, the gun designed and manufactured by G.F. Labram and used by the British during the siege, is t
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lieutenant General Hunter and Brigadier-General Sir Hector A. MacDonald arrive at Bethlehem, OFS. Hunter take
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George Christopher Cato (79), Natal pioneer and first mayor of Durban, dies in the city.
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