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On his return from Paris, General Hendrik van den Bergh has his own passport impounded on orders from the minister of the inter
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Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat asks Parliament to cancel treaty with Soviet Union, charging that Moscow failed to provide arms t
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Mark Fish, SA football player, is born.
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Chief Matanzima calls upon the South African government to grant full independence to the Transkei within five years. The prime
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The largest concentration of national monuments in the country, the thirty-two restored buildings which had been damaged in the
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The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) asks the national Olympic committees of Belgium, Great Britain, Japan, the Neth
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Ephraim Mojalefa (Kid) Ngatane, artist, teacher, musician and boxer, dies of tuberculosis at the Barangwanath Hospital, Soweto.
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The United Nations Security Council censures South Africa for its flagrant defiance of Council Resolution 245 (1968) calling fo
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Tertius Bosch, SA cricket player in one test match against the West Indies (1991-1992), is born in Vereeniging. (Wallis; Nuusda
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The Red Cross of SA institutes its emergency rescue unit.
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The Publications and Entertainment Bill, which has been before a select Committee for nearly two years, passes its third readin
EventThe New English Bible is published.
In 1935, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press who were the copyright holders of the English Revised Version Bible felt that a modern version…
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Sir Robert N. Kotze (82), SA mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines and who was mainly responsible f
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Samuel Maharero, who succeeded his father Maharero as chief of the Herero, dies in exile in Serowe, Bechuanaland. His misadmini
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Percy Fisher, miner and unionist born in 1891 in Durham, England, is found dead inside Central Hall of Fordsburg with a bullet
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Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping
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Gerard Jacob Theodoor Beelaerts van Blokland (54), co-founder of the Nederlandsch Zuid-Afrikaansche Vereeniging, dies.
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The still existing Hollandse Mannekoor (Dutch men’s choir)is founded in Pretoria.
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Dr Alexander Logie du Toit, SA geologist, is born in Cape Town.
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SA golf player and world number three, Ernie Els, scores his second victory in seven days after his third Dubai Desert Classic
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Struggle hero Dullah Omar and SA transport minister dies in the Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in the Western Cape.
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The Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire in its 27-year civil war against Unita, to begin the next day.
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Mr. Tony Leon, Leader of the Democratic Alliance speculates on the declaration of an AIDS-related national emergency from the D
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Finance Minister Liebenberg presents the 1996-97 Budget, reports continuing economic growth and underlines his aim of building
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TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph
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South Africa signs treaties with Swaziland on the establishment and functioning of the joint Water Commission and the developme
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Frank Moema, reverend and community leader, disappears after allegedly being abducted by men in camouflage gear. Coleman, M. (e
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Business Dayreports that Justice T. Spoelstra has sentenced four strikers to death four times each on charges of murder of non-
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Church services are held countrywide to warn the government to desist from its confrontational road.
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