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Seven Nigerian United Nations peacekeepers are killed in an ambush by Somalis in Mogadishu.
West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against SA.
Jacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the International Boxing Association (IBA) world champion title.
The SA rugby team loses the first test against New Zealand 6-10 in Dunedin.
The game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Paraguay, ends in a 2-2 tie.
Hubert Lawrence du Plessis, SA composer, is born on the farm Groenrivier, near Malmesbury.
Rugby teams of SA and France play to a draw with no score in Paris.
SA signs treaty with Portugal (for Mozambique), amending Article XXXII of the Mozambique Convention.
Gabriel Stephanus (Gaffie) du Toit, SA rugby player, is born in Kuils River, CP.
Sir Alfred Milner, Cape governor and SA High Commissioner, is born in Bonn, Germany.
Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier, first cartoonist at a SA newspaper (Die Burger), dies in Cape Town.
Ditau Molefyane, junior lightweight champion of SA wins the World Boxing Federation (WBF) title.
The Pietersburg City Council reverses an earlier decision and desegregates the town’s only cinema.
Thulane Sugarboy Malinga, SA super middleweight champion, wins the World Boxing Council (WBC) title.
EventThere is an assassination attempt on Verwoerd at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg
The first assassination attempt was made on the life of Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd at the Rand Easter Show in Johannesburg. His assailant was a disgruntled…
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
On this day in history, and international conference was held to implement legislation to protect the African elephant and rhinoceros. This is because due to…
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
On 24 June 1973, South African athlete Danie Malan set a new world record in the middle distance 1000m event in Munich. Malan was raised in the Boland area of…
President F.W. de Klerk denies talks between the ANC leaders and an Afrikaner delegation
Karl Ludwig Phillip Zeyher, SA botanist and collector of plants, is born in Germany
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet, painter and activist, received the Hertzog Prize for his two Afrikaans poetry volumes, an elegy 'Oorblyfsels: 'n…
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
During the Apartheid regime, Eugene de Kock was a colonel in the South African Police force. He acted as the commander of a counter-insurgency group located on…
Cachalia, Amina. 2013. When Hope and History Rhyme: An Autobiography - Reviewed by Muhammed Haron
EventOthello is staged for the first time in SA with a Black actor, John Kani
A production of Shakespeare’s “Othello” in which the Moor is played by black Actor, John Kani, was staged at the Market Theatre on 16 September 1987. The play…
EventJudge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1987
Justice of the Constitutional Court, Edwin Cameron made headlines in 1999 when he announced that he had been living with HIV for twelve years. Cameron was a…