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Nelson Mandela celebrates his sixtieth birthday on Robben Island.
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The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid comes into force.
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Egypt demands the Soviet Union remove its 20,000 advisers from the country, accusing it of failing to supply promised arms.
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The SA Minister of Finance attacks the United States and other former ‘gold pool’ countries for attempting to reduce the moneta
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Hugh Masekela strikes gold with the breezy, Latin-soul instrumental Grazing in the Grass, while Gary Puckett and The Union Gap
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The verdict of the International Court in the Hague in connection with South Africa’s mandate of South West Africa is delivered
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Darryl Kelfkens, SA actor in Egoli is born.
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Harold Wolpe, a Johannesburg solicitor and listed Communist, is arrested on the Bechuanaland border.
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The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second Interim Report recommending an effective embargo on the s
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Dr Karl Bremmer, SA minister of health after whom the Karl Bremer Hospital in Bellville was named, dies in Cape Town.
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Marthinus Johannes (Tinus) de Jongh (57), SA landscape painter, dies in Bloemfontein.
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Fikile Charles Bam, advocate, president of Land Claims Court since 1996 and director of several companies, including Volkswagen
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The Spanish Civil War begins in the early morning hours with a revolt at Melilla in Spanish Morocco.
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Ethiopian King Haile Selassie urges his countrymen to fight to the last man against the invading Italian army.
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The SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman (Herman Malan), shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a qua
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Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela is born in the small village of Mvezo, in the district of Qunu near Umtata.
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Mohandas Gandhi, after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance in this country, finally leaves from Cape Town by s
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In the first drive in the Cape Colony, the British under overall command of Gen. French are deployed along th
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR Volksraad passes the Aliens Act (Franchise Law), Act No 3 of 1899, allowing i.a. naturalisation of fo
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Thomas Cook, British travel agent, dies.
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Charles Baxter, SA author and Natal magistrate, is born in Oxfordshire, England.
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The Santos of Germany, weighing 163 tons, sinks near Mossel Bay with a cargo of skins, dried fruit and wool from Cape Town.
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The National Prosecuting Authority’s spokesperson Panyaza Lesufi says human remains believed to be those of the "Pebco Thr
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Almost 200 Black families, who were removed from their land in Eersterus, east of Pretoria in the 1950’s, receive R17 million f
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In Stinkwater, Hammanskraal, 2 200 families are given title deeds to land they had lived on for more than 50 years.
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The president of Burundian transitional government, Domitien Ndayizeye, and representatives of the three main political parties
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Elder statesman Nelson Mandela says he could not receive a better birthday gift the next day than a commitment by the world to
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The Australian rugby team gains its biggest ever victory over SA by beating the Springboks 32-6 in Brisbane.
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An agreement to restore peace in Liberia is reached by the warring factions, whose accord includes a cease-fire, an interim gov
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