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Mantombazana Edmie Tshabalala-Msimang, SA minister of health since 17 June 1999, is born.
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Sir William Cornwallis Harris (41), explorer of the interior of SA, dies in Bombay.
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Willie Smith, bantamweight boxing champion of SA, wins the world champion title. (British version).
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Nigeria, which gained independence on October 1, 1960, becomes an independent republic within the Commonwealth.
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Gé Korsten (71), popular SA tenor and actor, commits suicide in his Wilderness home.
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The SA rugby team wins the second test against New Zealand in Christchurch 13-6.
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Mark Thatcher’s wife, Diane, and their two children leave SA for the United States.
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World War 2: North Africa. The Suez Canal is targeted by an Italian air raid.
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Finland opens official economic relations with SA and raised diplomatic relations to ambassadorial level.
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South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) begins armed struggle against S.A. occupation of Namibia.
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Sango Patekile Holomisa, president of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA, is born.
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SA signs cooperation agreement with the United States concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
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The ANC and the SA government reach a compromise at their summit meeting in Johannesburg.
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The SA Vaal departs for the last time from Table Bay harbour to England.
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Sir Ernest Oppenheimer establishes the Anglo American Corporation of SA with a capital of £1 million.
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Walter Spiethoff, royal opera singer and SA singer and composer, is born in Austria.
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Nine miners die in an underground fire at the Northam Platinum mine near Thabazimbi,
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The SA government imposes a state of emergency on Black townships hit by savage fighting.
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Vuyani Bungu, SA junior featherweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world champion title.
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Helen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA.
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The SA rugby team loses the second test against Australia 20-28 in Brisbane.
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The SA rugby team loses the first test in Wellington against New Zealand 7-13.
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
Helen Nontando (Noni) Jabavu was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued…
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Jacob Mofokeng, cruiserweight boxer of SA, wins the World Boxing Union world champion title.
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Mpush Makambi of SA wins the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) middleweight world champion title.
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South Africa concludes an agreement with the Marconi Company for a high-powered radio station.
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Seven Nigerian United Nations peacekeepers are killed in an ambush by Somalis in Mogadishu.
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Ernest George Bock, SA cricket player in one test (1935/1936), dies in Springs.
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Janita Claassen (58) SA singer dies of cancer in the Sungarden Hospice in Pretoria.
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