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James Archbell, missionary and printer, negotiates together with John Edwards and T. Jenkins on the purchase of land at Thaba ‘

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International Civil Aviation Day.

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Joseph Kabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC. Kabila is the country’s first democratically elected president in over fo

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The health department slams the SA National Blood Service for revealing that Mbeki’s blood had been rejected because he decline

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Rebels of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army spend the first day of their first-ever visit to Sudan’s capital since the civil wa

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Nine staff members of a training company and a pilot are killed when their plane crashes near the N17 freeway minutes after tak

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Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.

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Zimbabwean Nick Price, defending champion of the Nedbank Million Dollar Golf Tournament at Sun City, wins again when he beats T

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President Nelson Mandela arrives in the United Arabian Emirates as guest of honour at the annual conference of Arabian countrie

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Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, is murdered.

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Twelve people are killed in Kathlehong, East Rand, as a result of the bloody feud between ANC Youth League and SDU.

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Headman Tshabalala, SA singer and founder member of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen

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Marches are staged by the ANC in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s &quot;mass mobi

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The Star reports that a Group Areas Bill, which sought to increase drastically the penalties for contravention of the Group Are

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The Prime Minister announces a reorganisation of the governmental administrative structure, under which the number of central e

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Zambian president Kenneth David Kaunda refuses to take part in UK-US discussions on majority rule in Rhodesia.

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South Africa grants Bophuthatswana, consisting of six separate territories, independence.

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Britain calls for United Nations sanctions against rebellious Rhodesia, including ban on oil shipments.

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Henry Allen Fagan, SA author, from whose poem President Mbeki quoted in his response on the occasion of the budget vote of the

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The Transkei Legislative Assembly meets for the first time in Umtata and elects Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief Minister.

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Heavy fighting erupts in Congo’s Katanga Province between United Nations and Katangan forces.

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The International Plant Protection Convention, to which SA is a party, is signed in Rome.

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The Normaalkollege (teachers’ training college) in Bloemfontein becomes the faculty of education of the University of the Orang

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John H. Amschewitz, SA art painter and cartoonist, dies three days before his sixtieth birthday in Muizenberg, Cape.

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Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia.

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Charlie Hime, SA cricketer in one test in 1895, dies.

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Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, dies in Bloemfontein.

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James Archbell, missionary and printer, negotiates together with John Edwards and T. Jenkins on the purchase of land at Thaba ‘

International Civil Aviation Day.

Joseph Kabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC. Kabila is the country’s first democratically elected president in over fo

The health department slams the SA National Blood Service for revealing that Mbeki’s blood had been rejected because he decline

Rebels of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army spend the first day of their first-ever visit to Sudan’s capital since the civil wa

Nine staff members of a training company and a pilot are killed when their plane crashes near the N17 freeway minutes after tak

Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.

Zimbabwean Nick Price, defending champion of the Nedbank Million Dollar Golf Tournament at Sun City, wins again when he beats T

President Nelson Mandela arrives in the United Arabian Emirates as guest of honour at the annual conference of Arabian countrie

Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, is murdered.

Twelve people are killed in Kathlehong, East Rand, as a result of the bloody feud between ANC Youth League and SDU.

Headman Tshabalala, SA singer and founder member of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen

Marches are staged by the ANC in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s &amp;quot;mass mobi

The Star reports that a Group Areas Bill, which sought to increase drastically the penalties for contravention of the Group Are

The Prime Minister announces a reorganisation of the governmental administrative structure, under which the number of central e

Zambian president Kenneth David Kaunda refuses to take part in UK-US discussions on majority rule in Rhodesia.

South Africa grants Bophuthatswana, consisting of six separate territories, independence.

Britain calls for United Nations sanctions against rebellious Rhodesia, including ban on oil shipments.

Henry Allen Fagan, SA author, from whose poem President Mbeki quoted in his response on the occasion of the budget vote of the

The Transkei Legislative Assembly meets for the first time in Umtata and elects Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief Minister.

Heavy fighting erupts in Congo’s Katanga Province between United Nations and Katangan forces.

The International Plant Protection Convention, to which SA is a party, is signed in Rome.

The Normaalkollege (teachers’ training college) in Bloemfontein becomes the faculty of education of the University of the Orang

John H. Amschewitz, SA art painter and cartoonist, dies three days before his sixtieth birthday in Muizenberg, Cape.

Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia.

Charlie Hime, SA cricketer in one test in 1895, dies.

Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, dies in Bloemfontein.

Dessye palace, Ethiopia, is destroyed by an Italian air raid.

Jim Pothecary, SA cricketer and pace bowler on the 1960 England tour, is born.

Lawrence Folley, SA opera baritone, is born.

Marches are staged by the ANC in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s "mass mobi