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Egypt and Syria resume full diplomatic relations after a twelve-year break.

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The ANC accuses the SA government of ransacking its offices in Maputo, Mozambique.

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Violence claims the lives of fourteen people during the Christmas weekend.

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Swaziland and South Africa agree to exchange trade representatives who will have the same rights and privileges as diplomatic p

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France detonates its third atomic device in the Sahara.

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5,580 Egyptian prisoners of war are exchanged for four Israelis held by Egypt following the

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Rev Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of South Africa since 1975 and SA minister of sport and recrea

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SA abandons the gold standard.

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Lucas Manyane Mangope, president of the former homeland Bophuthatswana, is born in Motswedi, near Zeerust, Transvaal.

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Dr Joosub Hajee Suliman Ebrahim, recipient of the “Order for Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold” for his contribution as busines

The first airmail in SA, consisting of 730 post cards, is flown eight kilometres by Evelyn Driver in his Bleriot plane from Ken

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The first airmail in SA, consisting of 730 post cards, is flown eight kilometres by Evelyn Driver in his Bleriot plane from Ken

Astley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born

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Astley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born

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Harry Escombe (61), premier of Natal and founder of the Natal Naval Volunteers in 1885, dies in Durban.

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Ivan Curlewis, Transvaal judge, is born.

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In the Battle of the White Umfolozi, the Voortrekker commando is ambushed and nearly overpowered by a Zulu impi. Alexander Harv

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James Chapman, photographer and pioneer explorer in many regions of the Zambezi, is born in Cape Town.

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Louis van Assenburgh (51), successor of Willem Adriaan van der Stel as governor at the Cape, dies in the Castle in Cape Town af

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Tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia. More than 125,000 people, including several South African touris

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A C-130 Hercules with ten passengers and a crew of four, under which a SA pilot, disappears near Huambo, Angola.

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Paul Adams became South Africa’s youngest Test Cricket player, aged 18 years and 340 days.

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Ten people are killed in a retaliation attack on the kraal of an ANC supporter.

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Cariango, Angola is taken by Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola, (MPLA, Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) guerril

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American Max Conrad sets a new world non-stop-flight record with his 7,878 mile journey from Cape Town, South Africa, to St Pe

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Charlie Frank, cricketer (South Africa Test centurion vs Australia 1921-22), dies.

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Tom Goddard takes a cricket hat-trick for England vs South Africa.

Edgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.

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Edgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.

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George Mzimvube Matanzima, Prime Minister of the Transkei, 1979 and younger brother of Kaiser Matanzima, is born at Qamata, Tr

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The German gunboat, the Kingani, is captured by the British on Lake Tanganyika. It is removed by portage through the jungle of

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The Uganda railway between Mombassa and Lake Victoria is completed.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Greylingstad takes place when Commandant Buys attacks the South Rand mine, near Greylingstad. P