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The SA rugby team beats Australia 28-3 in the first test in Johannesburg. John Gainsford scores in the second half of the match
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Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) gains independence from France.
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Father Bernard Huss (72), Roman Catholic missionary, dies at Marian Hill, outside Durban.
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Werner Nel, SA baritone, is born.
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The South West African constitution is put into force.
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WWI: The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt.
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Friedrich Engels, German political philosopher who wrote The Communist Manifesto (well-known in SA) with Karl Marx, dies in L
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Griqualand West is annexed to the Cape Colony, after it was proclaimed British territory on 27 October 1871.
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The Alabama, American raider, captures the Northern bark, Sea Bride, outside Table Bay. The Alabama was built during the Amer
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A peace treaty with Tripoli, which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis, brings an end to the Barbary Wars.
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The first 200 members of a West African peacekeeping force arrive in Liberia in an effort to stop more than two months of fight
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Queen Mother Elizabeth celebrates her 100th birthday as thousands line the roads of London to cheer her. Her popularity stems i
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About half of the filling stations in urban SA run dry because of a country wide strike of workers in the chemical industry.
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Robert Van Tonder, founder of the Boerestaat Party in 1986 to fight for the restoration of the old Transvaal, Northern Natal an
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Josia Thugwane is the first Black SA athlete to win an Olympic gold medal award by winning the marathon in Atlanta.
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During a march organised by the Cape Town-based Muslim organisation People against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) a suspected dr
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Radio Maputo reports that according to South Africa’s Security Minister, Sidney Mufamadi, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Afric
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Boy Chonco, working for Flora Mkhize, widow of Sipho Mkhize, is shot dead in Umbumbulu, Natal, while driving his car.
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The Greek liner Oceanos sinks off the South Africa coast in heavy seas; all 571 on board are rescued by 35 Squadron, in company
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Britain’s Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reluctantly offers to impose limited sanctions against South Africa.
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The African Republic of Upper Volta changes its named to Burkina Faso, which means ‘the land of upright men’.
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Captain Thomas Sankara seizes power in a military coup in Burkina Faso.
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Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u
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President Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50 000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months.
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Malawian ambassador to South Africa, Joe Kachingwe, is the first Black African statesman to be formally recognised by the Apart
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The government gives limited powers of internal self-government to ‘homeland’, Damaraland, in Namibia.
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The Defence Amendment Act comes into force, under which every young White male will be liable for military service.
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Fred Vusi Khumalo, journalist and assistant editor of the Sunday paper Rapport, is born in Chesterville Township, Durban.
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The SA rugby team wins the third test against the British Lions 8-3 in Newlands, Cape Town.
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