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Melius de Villiers, former chief justice of the Orange Free State, is born in Paarl, CC.
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New East India Company is granted charter by King William III of England.
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Fear of civil war escalates in Lesotho on the second consecutive day of fighting between the police and soldiers in the streets
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The United Nations (UN) tribunal on Rwanda sentences former prime minister Jean Kambanda to life imprisonment for his role in t
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against Madagascar in an away game.
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Speaking at the end of a two-day fact-finding mission by three ministers of the European Community (EC), United Kingdom Foreign
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In his second progress report on the implementation of the United Nations 1989 Declaration on Apartheid and Its Destructive Con
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SA signs a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the voluntary repatriation and
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Key points of the National Party’s constitutional proposals are outlined at its special Federal Congress. It provides for unive
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Nineteen hostel residents die in Sebokeng in an attempted hostel takeover allegedly by IFP vigilantes, while another eleven die
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SA signs a memorandum of understanding on road transportation in the Common Customs Area.
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KwaNdebele: Public Safety Act No 5 commences.
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A Rhodesian plane is shot down with a SAM 7 missile and thirty-eight of the fifty-six passengers are killed instantly, while gu
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Foreign Minister Pik Botha meets the President of the Ivory Coast at Lake Geneva for talks covering the dangers threatening Afr
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Riots continue, 4-5 September. The youth come out in the Coloured townships. Schools, libraries and a magistrate’s court are se
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Representatives of Egypt and Israel sign interim peace agreement in Geneva.
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Daniel Mbulaheni Mudau, Sundown’s striker who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Top Goal scorer of the Decade, is born in
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South Africa signs an extradition agreement with Swaziland.
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The SA rugby team comes back and win the third test against New Zealand 19-16, after trailing 5-16 at half-time.
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Albert Schweitzer, French Nobel Award winner, physician and missionary in Africa, dies at Lambaréné in Gabon.
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Dr. Verwoerd clearly indicates that no Maoris will be acceptable in any New Zealand rugby team visiting South Africa in future.
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Egypt and Syria form economic union.
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Wilhelmina, queen of the Netherlands from 1890 and throughout World Wars I (WWI) and II (WWII), abdicates in favour of her daug
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The House of Assembly defeats Prime Minister Hertzog’s motion of neutrality and adopts Smuts’ amendment in favour of joining th
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The SA rugby team wins the second test against New Zealand in Christchurch 13-6.
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The Capitol theatre in Pretoria, described as the best in the world, is inaugurated.
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British forces take Dar-es-Salaam in Tanganyika.
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Henry M. Arderne (80), attorney and director of companies, dies in Cape Town.
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Ian Bruce Anderson, SA baritone, actor and director, is born in Southport, England.
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