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The SA rugby team loses the second test against Australia 5-9 in Newlands, Cape Town.
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Dr. K.G. Abrahams is arrested in Gobabis area of South West Africa, and subsequently charged with being the chairman of the Yu
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Erich Mayer (83), SA landscape painter born in Germany, dies in Pretoria.
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Angela Maria Ferreira, S.A artist, is born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique.
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Edrich Krantz, SA rugby player, is born.
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Gill Marcus, manager of Spoornet, former deputy governor of the SA Reserve Bank and deputy minister of Finance (1996-1999), is
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Japan offers to surrender in World War 2 if Emperor Hirohito is permitted to keep his throne.
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Rodney Gould, SA rugby player, is born.
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Sir Abe Bailey (75), SA politician and Rand mine magnate, dies in Muizenberg.
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Prof. Dikloff Omphitlhetse Lenamile, academic and acting registrar and vice-principal, Finance, Unisa, is born in Johannesburg.
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Joshua Andries Nell, S.A artist, is born in Keetmanshoop, South West Africa.
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The draft bill concerning the founding of a central bank, the SA Reserve Bank, is approved by the Senate.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Milner leaves England to return to SA.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British Gen. Carrington reaches Mafeking and narrowly avoids being court-martialled for his inexplicable flig
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The first known reference to Antjie Somers, SA bogy figure, is made in The Friend. It is alleged that he was a brigand, dress
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Louis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn.
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Portuguese navigator Diego Diaz becomes the first European to arrive to the island of Madagascar.
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President Thabo Mbeki confirms that he has dismissed the Deputy Minister of Health, Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, with immediate e
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Several military officers and civilians are arrested in Mauritania for plotting a coup.
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Former rebels in the Ivory Coast attend their first cabinet meeting after a four-month boycott.
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South African women celebrate the first National Women’s day.
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Two members of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and a supporter of the Konserwatiewe Party (Conservative Party), die when
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International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women of South Africa and Namibia was observed for the first time.
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The Theron Commission Report is discussed at a meeting between the Prime Minister and the sixteen-member Liaison Committee of t
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French government has decided to supply no further continental (ground or air) armaments to South Africa. This political decisi
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Moses Kotane is awarded the Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe.
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The French Minister of State for National Defence confirms the continued supply of French arms to South Africa, except for anti
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Prime Minister Vorster reorganises his cabinet in order to strengthen the ‘verligte’ enlightened elements in the government.
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Biafran troops, under the command of Colonel Ojukwu, have crossed the Niger River into Nigeria’s Mid-Western State and are head
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