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Announcement of the continuation of current SA defence relations with the United Kingdom.
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A state of emergency is proclaimed in Southern Rhodesia.
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Louisa Frederika Meyburgh, also called the ‘first Afrikaans pastor of Port Elizabeth’ because of her fervour for proclaiming th
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Daniel Hugo, SA poet and radio broadcaster, is born.
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Winston Churchill announces that Britain has produced its own atomic bomb.
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Maj. William Jardine (80), one of the first collectors of Africana, dies in Cape Town.
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William W.P. Selborne (82), British High Commissioner in SA and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony (1905-1909),
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Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet who lives since 1966 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is born in Klerksdorp, western Transva
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Gen. George Pomeroy Colley deploys his troops overnight on Amajuba; Gen. Piet Joubert discovers it only at daybreak.
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An English troop carrier, the Birkenhead with Robert Salmond as captain, carrying reinforcements for the 8th Frontier War, runs
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A violent earthquake hits Cape Town.
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Militiamen kill nine United Nations Bangladeshi peacekeepers in Ituri, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the worst attac
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Condom use and multiple-drug "cocktails" have slowed the spread of Aids cases in certain African countries, the 12th
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A memorial service, attended by several dignitaries, is held for Archbishop Denis Hurley at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart i
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Zaire 2-1.
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South Africa opens an embassy in Mbabane, Swaziland.
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SA signs agreement with the government of Namibia relating to the promotion of co-operation in the field of administration of j
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US marines and Nigerian soldiers blast at snipers in central Mogadishu, Somalia, in a five-hour battle that kills one Somali.
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Chief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, CONTRALESA, ANC, is shot dead in Pietermaritzburg while getting into his car.
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Anglican bishops in Southern Africa urge liberation movements to suspend the armed struggle.
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More than 100,000 persons attend a rally in Durban addressed by Nelson Mandela, who urges his followers to end the factional wa
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South Africa and Botswana agree to take steps preventing ANC operatives from using Botswana as a transit base into South Africa
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Hansard reports that on this date 289 servicemen of the SADF are in detention, of which 137 are being punished for reasons of c
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Signs extradition agreement with Malawi.
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A newspaper reports that the government has refused a visa application from the American Negro tennis player, Arthur Ashe, to v
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Seven Africans are detained in the Transkei on an allegation of conspiracy to commit murder. Five are opposition members of the
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Archbishop Owen McCann of Cape Town becomes South Africa’s first Cardinal when he is invested by Pope Paul in St Peter’s Basili
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Anneli van Rooyen, SA singer, is born.
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Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes premier of Egypt following a coup.
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