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The Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns is founded in Bloemfontein.
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According to News 24, Britain grants self-government to the Orange River Colony on this date. Kruger gives the date on which re
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Cornelis Johannes Janse van Rensburg, expert in soil conservation and authority on field grasses, is born in Rustenburg, Transv
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Pieter Morkel, SA rugby Springbok, is born in Stellenbosch.
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Cecil John Rhodes leaves Britain to return to South Africa.
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Henrietta Georgina (Netta) Kirk, cheese maker, who received two international awards, is born in Matatiele. She was a deeply ca
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Thomas François Burgers is inaugurated as state president of the ZAR.
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Robert Gwelo Goodman, SA painter of war scenes, is born in Taplow-on-Thames, England.
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A boat on its way from Gabon to the Cameroons founders, killing forty-three people.
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Congo ends a more than twenty years’ break in top-level relations with its old colonial ruler by welcoming Belgian Prime Minist
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The Minister of Correctional Services, Dr. Sipho Mzimela, announces in parliament that Dimitrio Tsafendas, assassin of Prime Mi
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President Nelson Mandela meets in Dakar with Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. They discuss the possible involvement of
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Two top leaders of Algeria’s rebellious fundamentalists are arrested, and clashes between their followers and Algerian security
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The Independent Development Trust allocates R70 million to provide pre-school facilities for 1.2m of the estimated 3.5m impover
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Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act No 108 commences.
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African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela visits Oakland, California, a day after receiving a star-studded welcome in Los
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Sudanese military leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir topples the civilian administration of Sadeq al-Mahdi.
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Minister Heunis announces consolidation proposals approved by the cabinet for KwaZulu, reducing its twenty-six separate areas t
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Zimbabwe foils a South African commando attempt to rescue five alleged South African agents awaiting trial for bomb attacks aga
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The SA Defence Force claims that 200 Angolan and Cuban troops died in a clash at Calueque earlier in the week. It says eleven S
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Proclamation No 8 commences, declaring a state of emergency in Transkei.
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Colonel Muannar Kadhaffi (also Muamar Gaddafi), president of Libya, flies to Rabat for talks with King Hassan II of Morocco. Hi
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The campaign against dissident South African students continues with the banning of three more students immediately after the s
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Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, and son of Walter Sisulu, is arrested under
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The Security Police detain J. Tugwana of the Rand Daily Mail, the fifth journalist to be held without trial since February 1977
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Hezekiel Sepeng, SA Olympic -, World and Commonwealth silver medal winner in the 800m events, is born in Potchefstroom. ;
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Cooperation with Iran in the fields of nuclear energy, petroleum, mining and trade is announced.
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Membership of the Bank for International Settlement is extended to the South African Reserve Bank.
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Prof. Casper H. Rautenbach, rector of the University of Pretoria, retires after twenty-two years of service.
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