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Passports have been withdrawn from three White staff members of the joint Institute of Race Relations.

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Gary Kirsten, SA cricket player and stepbrother of Peter Kirsten, is born in Cape Town.

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Gen. R.C. Hiemstra opens the Castle of Good Hope military museum in Cape Town, reflecting various aspects of military history s

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A police convoy is ambushed in Pondoland.

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Moroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni.

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Britain starts military withdrawal from Suez war zone and petrol is rationed because of fear that the Suez crisis may lead to f

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Ms Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April

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The SA rugby team beats Scotland 16-0 in Edinburgh.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Major-General Smith-Dorrien, leaving only the church standing, razes the town of Dullstroom to the ground.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battles of Belmont, western front, and Willow Grange, Natal front, started on the day before, continue.

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Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in

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The families who survived the Thirstland Trek and made it to Angola, are naturalised as Portuguese subjects, assured of freedom

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Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, is born in Somer

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Sir John Barrow (84), explorer of the interior of SA, dies in London.

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Petrus van der Spuy, the first clergyman to be born in SA, is born in Cape Town.

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Four children die and two policemen are critically injured when a police vehicle smashed into a minibus taxi and they both burs

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Parts of western Johannesburg are plunged into darkness when an electrical sub-station in Hursthill near the Helen Joseph Hospi

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Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria for fear of riots and move it instead to London.

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Carlos Cardoso, arguably the finest of post independence Mozambican journalists, is assassinated in Maputo.

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Abdelkader Hachani, a moderate leader of Algeria’s banned Islamic Salvation Front, is fatally shot in Algiers.

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Anne Paton, widow of Alan Paton, announces her decision to move to England.

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Willie Liebenberg, SA all-in wrestler, dies in Johannesburg.

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Gunmen kidnap five aid workers from the U.N. and European Union in Somalia. They are released unharmed three days later.

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The SA rugby team beats France 52-10 in the second test, winning the series 2-0.

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SA signs agreement with the government of Switzerland concerning support to the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).

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SA signs protocol with India on the establishment of consular and diplomatic relations.

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Tom Vraalsen, special envoy of the UN Secretary-General, visits South Africa (22 November 9 December).

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Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets with a group of Haitian legislators to negotiate an end to Haiti’s consti

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Exchange of notes establishing diplomatic relations with Romania.

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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, after being defeated by John Major in a ballot for Conservative Party leader, resigns

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Passports have been withdrawn from three White staff members of the joint Institute of Race Relations.

Gary Kirsten, SA cricket player and stepbrother of Peter Kirsten, is born in Cape Town.

Gen. R.C. Hiemstra opens the Castle of Good Hope military museum in Cape Town, reflecting various aspects of military history s

A police convoy is ambushed in Pondoland.

Moroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni.

Britain starts military withdrawal from Suez war zone and petrol is rationed because of fear that the Suez crisis may lead to f

Ms Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April

The SA rugby team beats Scotland 16-0 in Edinburgh.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Major-General Smith-Dorrien, leaving only the church standing, razes the town of Dullstroom to the ground.

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battles of Belmont, western front, and Willow Grange, Natal front, started on the day before, continue.

Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in

The families who survived the Thirstland Trek and made it to Angola, are naturalised as Portuguese subjects, assured of freedom

Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, is born in Somer

Sir John Barrow (84), explorer of the interior of SA, dies in London.

Petrus van der Spuy, the first clergyman to be born in SA, is born in Cape Town.

Four children die and two policemen are critically injured when a police vehicle smashed into a minibus taxi and they both burs

Parts of western Johannesburg are plunged into darkness when an electrical sub-station in Hursthill near the Helen Joseph Hospi

Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria for fear of riots and move it instead to London.

Carlos Cardoso, arguably the finest of post independence Mozambican journalists, is assassinated in Maputo.

Abdelkader Hachani, a moderate leader of Algeria’s banned Islamic Salvation Front, is fatally shot in Algiers.

Anne Paton, widow of Alan Paton, announces her decision to move to England.

Willie Liebenberg, SA all-in wrestler, dies in Johannesburg.

Gunmen kidnap five aid workers from the U.N. and European Union in Somalia. They are released unharmed three days later.

The SA rugby team beats France 52-10 in the second test, winning the series 2-0.

SA signs agreement with the government of Switzerland concerning support to the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).

SA signs protocol with India on the establishment of consular and diplomatic relations.

Tom Vraalsen, special envoy of the UN Secretary-General, visits South Africa (22 November 9 December).

Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets with a group of Haitian legislators to negotiate an end to Haiti’s consti

Exchange of notes establishing diplomatic relations with Romania.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, after being defeated by John Major in a ballot for Conservative Party leader, resigns