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The SA cricket team beats Zimbabwe with an innings and thirteen runs in the first five-day test in Bloemfontein.

This day in history

The National Library of South Africa Act, 1998 (Act 92 of 1998), comes into effect and creates the National Library of South Af

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The SA cricket team beats the West Indies in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with 4 wickets in a one-day International Cricket Council Wills

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Rwandan and Zairian forces bombard each another with artillery along the border, while rebels in Zaire, supported by Rwanda, cl

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South Africans vote in their first all-race local government elections and the African National Congress secures an impressive

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Angolan government forces take the oil-producing town of Soyo from the rebel group Unita, which captured it the year before.

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SA exchanges notes with Namibia on the joint administration of Walvis Bay and the offshore islands.

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Frederick Chiluba defeats President Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia’s first multi-party elections for twenty-three years.

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Minister of Justice Kobie Coetsee announces guidelines for the release of political prisoners and the return of exiles.

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According to W. Steenkamp in his book SA’s Border War 1966-1989, the final death toll at this date was as follows: 715 SA secur

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The government suspends the anti-apartheid alternative newspaper, The Weekly Mail, until 28 November.

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Despite discussions with the SA Rugby Board, the ANC asks the International Rugby Board to prohibit a SA tour of the World Rugb

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Chris Hani is appointed as the new chief-of-staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, to succeed Joe Slovo.

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The Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA) is launched with the opening of its first office in Port El

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Government bans television coverage of unrest in Black townships in the thirty-eight magisterial districts where the State of E

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Labour Relations Amendment Act No 57 commences, redefining ‘employee’ to cover all Black workers, including local and foreign m

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Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers, lexicographer, educationist, author and member of several cultural organisations, dies in St

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A five-day strike called by militant students in the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC) meets with only limited res

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The QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status. Date is given as 25 October by news24.com.

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Anrich Herbst, SA actor, is born in Bloemfontein.

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Four Indians are convicted of conspiracy under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to a minimum of five years imprisonment. Their i

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The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh is found guilty on ten points of subversive act

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Act no 90 of 1967 commences, according to which the minister of mining no longer chairs the board on atomic energy. The Act sti

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The United Nations General Assembly adopts a fifty-four-nation resolution by 114 to 2 against (South Africa and Portugal) with

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A trackless trolley plunges into the Nile River drowning seventy-four, in Cairo, Egypt.

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Eighty-five people are killed in nationalist demonstrations in Algiers.

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Patrice Lumumba, Congolese nationalist, is arrested following two nights of unrest.

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Pote Human, SA rugby player, is born.

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Thulani Sikhulu Gcabashe, urban and regional planner and current chief Executive Designate &amp; Chair of Eskom Enterprises (20

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Algeria starts rebellion against French rule. Nationalist rioters led by Ahmed Ben Bella (based in Cairo) have wreaked destruct

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The SA cricket team beats Zimbabwe with an innings and thirteen runs in the first five-day test in Bloemfontein.

The National Library of South Africa Act, 1998 (Act 92 of 1998), comes into effect and creates the National Library of South Af

The SA cricket team beats the West Indies in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with 4 wickets in a one-day International Cricket Council Wills

Rwandan and Zairian forces bombard each another with artillery along the border, while rebels in Zaire, supported by Rwanda, cl

South Africans vote in their first all-race local government elections and the African National Congress secures an impressive

Angolan government forces take the oil-producing town of Soyo from the rebel group Unita, which captured it the year before.

SA exchanges notes with Namibia on the joint administration of Walvis Bay and the offshore islands.

Frederick Chiluba defeats President Kenneth Kaunda in Zambia’s first multi-party elections for twenty-three years.

Minister of Justice Kobie Coetsee announces guidelines for the release of political prisoners and the return of exiles.

According to W. Steenkamp in his book SA’s Border War 1966-1989, the final death toll at this date was as follows: 715 SA secur

The government suspends the anti-apartheid alternative newspaper, The Weekly Mail, until 28 November.

Despite discussions with the SA Rugby Board, the ANC asks the International Rugby Board to prohibit a SA tour of the World Rugb

Chris Hani is appointed as the new chief-of-staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, to succeed Joe Slovo.

The Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA) is launched with the opening of its first office in Port El

Government bans television coverage of unrest in Black townships in the thirty-eight magisterial districts where the State of E

Labour Relations Amendment Act No 57 commences, redefining ‘employee’ to cover all Black workers, including local and foreign m

Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers, lexicographer, educationist, author and member of several cultural organisations, dies in St

A five-day strike called by militant students in the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC) meets with only limited res

The QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status. Date is given as 25 October by news24.com.

Anrich Herbst, SA actor, is born in Bloemfontein.

Four Indians are convicted of conspiracy under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to a minimum of five years imprisonment. Their i

The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh is found guilty on ten points of subversive act

Act no 90 of 1967 commences, according to which the minister of mining no longer chairs the board on atomic energy. The Act sti

The United Nations General Assembly adopts a fifty-four-nation resolution by 114 to 2 against (South Africa and Portugal) with

A trackless trolley plunges into the Nile River drowning seventy-four, in Cairo, Egypt.

Eighty-five people are killed in nationalist demonstrations in Algiers.

Patrice Lumumba, Congolese nationalist, is arrested following two nights of unrest.

Pote Human, SA rugby player, is born.

Thulani Sikhulu Gcabashe, urban and regional planner and current chief Executive Designate &amp;amp; Chair of Eskom Enterprises (20

Algeria starts rebellion against French rule. Nationalist rioters led by Ahmed Ben Bella (based in Cairo) have wreaked destruct

Thulani Sikhulu Gcabashe, urban and regional planner and current chief Executive Designate & Chair of Eskom Enterprises (20