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The SA Air Force announces that Mirages will be phased out because of a cut to the defence budget.
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The match between the SA rugby team and New Zealand ends in a tie with 18 points each. SA loses the series 2-0.
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Adelaide Tambo, wife of ANC president Oliver Tambo, arrives in SA after thirty years abroad, to re-establish the ANC Women’s Le
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The government and the ANC meet for their second round of talks and agree upon the Pretoria Minute, concerning release of polit
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The Citizen reports that the film, Cry Freedom, based on the life and death of Steve Biko was banned by the Bophuthatswana and
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A bomb explodes at a synagogue in central Johannesburg four hours before State President Viljoen is due to attend a ceremony th
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The Castillo de Bellver spills 250 000 ton of oil in the sea at Cape Town after it caught fire in Saldana Bay.
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Three ANC members are sentenced to death for attacks directed against the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the
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The Mauritanian government has conceded defeat against the Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el H
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Eleven people die and seventy-six are injured in a bomb explosion in a store in Salisbury (now Harare) the capital of Rhodesia
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Manie Botha, SA actor and camera man, dies.
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The Hewat Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC boycotters.
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South African golfer Gary Player wins his second PGA Championship with a two-stroke victory over Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron.
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The Universities Amendment Act and the Extension of University Education Amendment Act give the Minister of Education, Arts and
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Dr Cornelius Francois Visser (Vader Visser), educator and cultural leader who founded the Voortrekker Beweging, an Afrikaner yo
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Samuel Bonnin Hobson, SA author, dies in Grahamstown. Together with his brother, G.C. Hobson, they formed a unique example of c
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Guinea announces that she has broken off diplomatic, commercial and cultural relations with South Africa and Portugal, and bann
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Andrew Vusi Fasedemi, businessman and managing director of several companies, is born in Cardiff, Wales. He came in 1994 to Sou
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Jack van der Schyff misses a goal kick and the SA rugby team loses 22-23 against the British Lions on Ellis Park field.
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Yacoob Mahomed Makda, politician, executive member of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, and member of several boar
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WW2: The United States drops the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to force Japan to surrender.
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The SA rugby team beats the British 26-12 in the first test of the series. S.C. Louw scores SA’s 100th try.
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Joseph Michael Solomon, architect partner of Herbert Baker, commits suicide in Cape Town. He was never to see the final com
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Prof. Christoffel Johannes Michael Nienaber, Afrikaans linguist, is born in Fauresmith, OFS.
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Adm. Hugo (Hendrik) Bierman, head and first admiral of the SA Fleet, is born in Johannesburg.
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The SA rugby team beats the British Isles 14-10 in the first test in Johannesburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Remnants of the notorious Steinaecker’s Horse, led by Capt. Francis and fighting on British side, are surroun
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Elands River: British Gen. Carrington retreats to the Marico River and Zeerust, Western Transvaal
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Madagascar becomes a possession of the French Republic.
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