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Dr Anthony Edward (Anton) Rupert, industrial chemist and SA business entrepreneur and magnate, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
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Randjieslaagte on the Rand is proclaimed as public gold diggings.
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Hermann Böhle, SA electro-technical engineer and first professor in electro-technics at the South African College in Cape
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Gustav Preller, champion of Afrikaans, educationist and writer, is born in Pretoria.
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Sarel Arnoldus Celliers (70), Voortrekker leader, dies near Lindley, OFS.
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In Southwest Africa, the Rhenish Missionary Church constitutes itself as the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
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Pieter Arnoldus (Piet) Cronjé, politician and military leader in the ZAR and general during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born in
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National Day of Lesotho.
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South African Pieter de Waal has been appointed as head of the sales and marketing division for BMW Motorrad worldwide – the
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At least ten people are killed and thirty injured eleven seriously in a bus accident at Botha’s Hill north of Durban.
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T.V. (Tom) Bulpin (81), SA author of travel books and photographer, dies in Cape Town.
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The SA rugby team wins its first match in the World Cup tournament against Scotland in Edinburgh 46-29.
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the home game, the first qualifying game for the African Nations Cup later in Zimbabwe,
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The South African Police Service (SAPS) launches a National Bureau for Missing Persons to render supportive service to investig
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SA signs agreements with the government of the US on missile-related export/import restrictions and with the UN Development Pro
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At least twelve US army soldiers are killed in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, in a fifteen-hour battle with supporters of Somal
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It is announced that South African writer Nadine Gordimer is to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.
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The European Community issues a communiqué expressing concern at "the continued detention of political prisoners in
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General Magnus Malan acknowledges that South Africa has troops in Angola.
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Hans Jürgen Aschenborn, librarian, director of the State Library and receiver of the Sailis Award for Bibliography in 1985, di
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The leader of the New Republic Party, Vause Raw, states that his party is prepared to give the President’s Council a chance as
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The leader of the New Republic Party, Vause Raw, states that his party is prepared to give the President’s Council a chance as
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The results of four Parliamentary by-elections show a decided swing to the Herstigte Nasionale Party and low percentage polls.
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The results of four Parliamentary by-elections show a decided swing to the Herstigte Nasionale Party and low percentage polls.
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At the end of a ten-day inquest, L.A. Coetzee, Deputy Chief Magistrate of Port Elizabeth, rules that no one is to blame for the
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M.C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that he will not stand for re-election and will resign a
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M.C. Botha, Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that he will not stand for re-election and will resign a
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Bishop Abel Muzorewa returns to Rhodesia after two years in exile in Tanzania.
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Bishop Abel Muzorewa returns to Rhodesia after two years in exile in Tanzania.
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