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The SA rugby team beats Australia 61-22 in the Tri-Nations championship in Pretoria.
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Zambian police shoot and wound former president Kenneth Kaunda at an opposition rally in Kabwe.
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The SA rugby team loses the second test against the British Isles 8-17 in Johannesburg.
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John Erskine (Jack) Cheetham (60), SA cricket player in 24 test matches, dies in Johannesburg.
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SA announces new concession, giving urban Blacks full title to land on which they live.
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William Booth (83), founder of the charitable Salvation Army who works also in SA, dies.
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Theodore Walter Jandrell, SA teacher, inspector of schools and poet, is born in Richmond, CP.
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The SA rugby team loses the third test against New Zealand 10-17 in Christchurch.
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Machtelt Smit (born Combrinck), founder of the first private welfare organisation in SA, is born.
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Jannie Gildenhuys (70), well-known SA TV and stage actor, dies in Heidelberg, Western Cape.
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The match between the SA rugby team and the British Isles ends in a tie with 3-3.
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Samuel Cronwright-Schreiner, (73), husband of SA author Olive Schreiner, dies in Rondebosch, Cape Town.
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H.F. Verwoerd, future SA prime minister and architect of apartheid, is born in the Netherlands.
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Thomas Molatodi Lehupela, S.A. sculptor, is born in Paradys Location, Thaba’ Nchu, Orange Free State.
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P.W. Botha is unanimously elected to the post of Executive President by an Electoral College.
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SA informs the League of Nations that it will apply all sanctions imposed on Italy.
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The statue of former SA Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom (Hans) on Strijdom Square, Pretoria, collapses.
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Dr Thomas Barrow Dowling, director of the SA Music Association, is born in Wiltshire, England.
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Daniël Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born in Dal Josafat, Cape Colony.
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Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian premier (1947) and staunch supporter of the Indian cause in SA, dies.
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Coal miners and industrial and government representatives from seventeen countries, attending an international labour organisat
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Egyptian aircraft begin an UN-approved shuttle of Muslim pilgrims from Libya to Saudi Arabia.
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French and Spanish representatives meet with Riff envoys but fail to reach an armistice agreement.
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French troops move into downtown Bangui, Central African Republic, to help quell an army uprising.
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President Jomo Kenyatta bans big-game hunting in Kenya in an attempt to conserve wildlife.
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Rolland Beaumont, (74), SA cricket player in 5 test matches (1912-1914), dies in Berea, Durban.
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Maggie Laubser (87), SA painter and receiver of several awards, dies in the Strand, Cape.
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Culture(s) of the African National congress of SA: Imprint of exile experiences by Raymond Suttner
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The UN reports acceptance of an unconditional ceasefire by Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon.
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