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Mamorena Annah Buthelezi-Phori, ANC politician and MEC for Social Welfare, Free State Provincial Government since 1999, is born
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SA signs multilateral agreement accepting the constitution of the Universal Postal Union.
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It is announced in Rawalpindi that the government of Pakistan has decided to ban all exports from Pakistan to South Africa and
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Israeli foreign minister Golda Meir says the UN failure to resolve the Suez Crisis means they must take military action.
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League of Nations declares Italy aggressor in Ethiopia.
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Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is born in Klerksdorp, Transvaal.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Sir Redvers Buller is appointed Commander-in-Chief in South Africa.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Tension continues between the British and the Boers in South Africa, and the British Army is ordered to mobil
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One of the biggest faction fights ever recorded on the Witwatersrand, starts as a canteen brawl. Zulus, Shangaan, Chopis and
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Maharero, Herero chief under whose leadership the Herero were liberated from their Nama oppressors, dies in Okahandja, South-We
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Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Fanie) Eloff (62), first notable sculptor born in SA and grandson of Paul Kruger, is born in Pretori
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Gen. Christiaan Rudolph de Wet, chief commandant of the Free State forces during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born on the farm Leeuwkop
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Carl August Pacalt, missionary of the London Missionary Society is born in Germany.
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Commuters angry about train delays cause damage estimated at R30m when they set fire to several coaches and two offices at Germ
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The Star reports that a South African, Johan Hattingh, a former Task Force member, who was working with US company DynCorp in B
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National Eagle Day, organised by the Raptor Conservation Group and short-term insurer SA Eagle,is celebrated.
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Overwhelmed by rising waters on the Niger River, officials open the floodgates of two major dams, submerging 400 villages and l
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The SA Agricultural Union changes its name on the union’s annual meeting in Rustenburg to Agri South Africa.
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State of Emergency Act No 86 commences.
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South African President Nelson Mandela addresses a joint session of US Congress.
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 0-4 against Mexico.
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Minister of Manpower Eli Louw announces that in future Workers’ Day would always be on 1 May.
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Algeria’s President Chadli Bendjedid announces state of emergency on third day of violent protests against austerity measures.
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Zambian postal workers refuse to sort mail from South Africa following a bomb explosion the previous week in which two postal w
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Stella Sigcau is elected Transkei’s third prime minister since the SA government accorded the territory independence in 1976. D
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ANC command structure in the Western Cape is arrested.
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Three of the six protesters leave the British Consulate in protest against South Africa’s action in linking their sit-in with t
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade, eleven years and one day after
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Dr. Dawie de Villiers wins the Piketberg, Western Cape, seat for the National Party with a slightly reduced majority.
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