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The of National HIV prevalence survey is released at Public Sector Ante-natal clinics.
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The Forest Industries Education and Training Authority (FIETA) is established. Its function is to run leadership programmes and
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair thanks President Nelson Mandela by telephone for his help in persuading Libya to hand over two sus
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The African People’s Liberation Army (APLA), armed section of the PAC, is disbanded in the Umtata stadium by Dr Stanley Mogoba.
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V.S. Pritchett, short-story writer and critic, dies at the age of 96.
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Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain addresses the South African Parliament.
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Gerard Sekoto (80), SA artist who left SA for Paris in 1947, dies.
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Finance Minister Barend du Plessis presents a budget offering a large tax incentive to business, with emphasis directed to the
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Nicholas (Boikie) Thlapi disappears after allegedly been taken into police custody at a roadblock at Stilfontein on his way fro
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Dr. Allan Boesak, President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, is exonerated by his church for having had an extra-mar
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A powerful bomb at 2:05 am destroys the cells behind the Langa Commissioner’s Court in Cape Town where thousands of pass law of
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The Conservative Party is founded in the Skilpadsaal in Pretoria with Dr Andries Treurnicht as leader. It brings together, in a
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KwaNdebele proclaimed a self-governing territory.
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Former South African Supreme Court judge, Judge J.F. Ludorf, claims he has evidence that two hired German killers were paid to
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SA signs agreement with Swaziland on the issue of notes and coin.
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Responding to the British Labour government’s re-imposition of an embargo on arms sales to South Africa, John Vorster tells Bri
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Evidence of guerrilla training in the Soviet Union and Tanzania is given in the trial of six people, on nineteen charges under
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Sports Minister, Dr. P. Koornhof, says the government will not allow organisations inside or outside the country to disrupt the
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The Budget introduced by the Minister of Finance, Dr. T.E. Dönges, provides the record sum of R202 million for defence and
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Police obtain information that Sisulu is an office bearer of Umkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation).
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Rioting and arson in Pondoland.
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The Transkei Territorial Authority, instituted in 1956 to replace the former Bunga, becomes an all-Black administrative body.
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Tunisia gains independence from France, becoming the Republic of Tunisia, under its first president, Habib Bourguiba. He also l
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The first mountain zebra foal is born in the National Mountain Zebra Park near Cradock.
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Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier, first cartoonist at a SA newspaper (Die Burger), dies in Cape Town.
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The first synoptic weather observations from Prince Edward and Marion Islands are received in SA.
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Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker met Mahatma Gandhi in Patna and held several hours of discussions with him (Mahatma Gandhi).
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John Joubert, South African composer, is born in Cape Town.
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Sir Pierre van Ryneveld and Quintin Brand arrive in Wynberg after the first flight from London to Cape Town.
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