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The SA rugby team loses the second test 8-9 against New Zealand in Newlands, Cape Town.
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Lieutenant Colonel Yakubu Gowon, leader of Nigeria’s National Military Government, reinstates a federal government system. This
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Beatle records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments.
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Following the findings of the Viljoen Commission into the employment of African labour in twelve gold mines, the experiment is
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Shackleton 1718 crashes in the mountains at Steynskloof Dam near Rawsonville with total loss of life. The aircraft was on its w
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Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld, UN secretary-general, instructs Belgium to withdraw its troops from the Congo.
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The last tram trip from Pretoria Church Square to the station takes place.
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The symbolic Ossewatrek, organised by the Uitvoerende Raad van die Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging (ATKV), starts from the
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Prof. Stephanus Andrew Louw, authority on language geography, is born in Krugersdorp.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In Bethlehem, OFS, a Black man called Frans is tried by the British, found guilty, sentenced to death and h
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Buffelshoek, a council of war adopts De Wet’s proposal to reduce the number of wagons to one per twenty-
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The London Convention is ratified by the Volksraad. It restored the name Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and did not mention Britis
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Louisa Frederika Meyburgh, also called the ‘first Afrikaans minister of Port Elizabeth’ because of her fervour for proclaiming
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At request of Pres. T.F. Burgers, J.F. (Jan Volkstem) Celliers publishes a pro-government newspaper, De Volksstem, in Pretoria
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King Moshesh (Moshoeshoe, Msheshwe) of the Basuto beats off an attack by Com. Louw Wepener of the Orange Free State.
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The Swiftsure is wrecked in a storm at Plettenberg Bay, without loss of lives.
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Dr Carl Pehr Thunberg, SA explorer, dies.
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Tjaart van der Walt, frontier farmer and field commandant who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co
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IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi reveals at the funeral of his daughter, Princess Mandisi Sibukakonke, that she died from HIV/Ai
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The New National Party (NNP) in SA announces its dissolution and merger with ruling African National Congress (ANC).
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The SA rugby team loses its fourth consecutive test match when New Zealand beats the Springbok team 34-18 in a Tri-Nations matc
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Terrorist bombs detonate within minutes of each other outside US embassies in buildings in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Ta
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Schweizer-Reneke extends ‘freedom of town’ to Eugene Terreblanche, leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB).
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Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C
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Joaquim Alberto Chissano, president of Mozambique, meets with Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the Resistência Nacional Moçambicana
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USSR Deputy Foreign Minister Valeri Nikolayenko arrives in SA for five-day visit.
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In a joint statement released by the ANC and the government, the ANC announces the suspension of its thirty-year-old armed stru
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City Press quotes a researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Mr Mark Swelling, as sa
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Conference of Arab Solidarity with the Struggle for Liberation in Southern Africa, organised by the Special Committee against A
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