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SA signs amendment to multilateral treaty on endangered species of flora and fauna.
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The Advocate-General Bill is passed in amended form despite PFP opposition.
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The SA rugby team loses the second test against the British Lions 9-28 in Pretoria.
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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight
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A Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned PAC, Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit (gr
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The match between the SA rugby team and the British Lions ends in a tie, with both sides scoring 6 points in Port Elizabeth.
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SA signs treaty with Norway on a scientific project.
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Meyrick Pringle, SA cricket player, is born.
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A spokesman for the World Council of Churches says in Geneva that the government has refused permission for Bishop Zulu to atte
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SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the introduction of a system of levies for certain cereals and related products.
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The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the
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Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop the hooliganism of Whit
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Under leadership of Dr Abel Coetzee, the Genootskap vir Afrikaanse Volkskunde is established in Johannesburg. Its aim was t
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World War II: France surrenders to Germany eight days after the German forces invaded the country.
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Bambata Rebellion: Sigananda, one of the leaders of the rebellion, dies in the jail at Nkandla at midnight.
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The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers. Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb
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Willem Jacobus du Plooy Erlank (Eitemal), poet and professor in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of Stellenbosc
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Electricity comes to Durban when the mayor, Mrs George Payne, pulls a switch and parts of the town are bathed in light.
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James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, is born in Rabula, Keiskammahoek, Eastern C
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Muhammad Ahmad ibn al Sayyid Abd Allah, who declared himself as the Mahdi, religious leader in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1881, di
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Leopold Marquard (80), clergyman, missionary and educationist, dies in Cape Town.
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon’s Mines and other adventure stories, mostly about Africa, is born in Norfolk, E
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The first grant of land in Table Valley is registered in the surveyor’s office in Table Bay in the name and favour of Hieronymo
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Jan van Riebeeck nominates the first Burgher Council in Table Bay, consisting of four freemen.
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Business Day reports that according to the UN joint agency on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, SA is home to 5,5-million people infected with
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The SA cricket team wins the second test against England on Lords with 10 wickets and leads 1-0 in the series after the first d
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A Draft White Paper on Defence is released.
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Convention between the governments of South Africa and Denmark for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fisca
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Ethiopians vote in their country’s first multiparty elections, but balloting is marred by opposition boycotts.
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