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SA signs cooperation agreement with the United States concerning peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
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An American post-graduate student, Amy Elizabeth Biehl, 26, is dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Guguletu,
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Three thousand people march to the South African Broadcasting Corporation in Auckland Park, Johannesburg, to demand the establi
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The Citizen reports that a serious shortage of trained intensive care nurses has plunged the country’s famous heart transplant
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FW de Klerk meets Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko to try to forge a joint emergency strategy to rescue the teetering Angolan
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The Satour office in Paris is ransacked by youths belonging to a communist group.
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The mutilated body of Toto Dweba, UDF and member of the Natal Freedom Charter Committee, is found at the Natal North Coast.
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The World Alliance of Reformed (Presbyterian and Congregational) Churches (WARC) suspends the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (N
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Confrontation between South Africa and Transkei over the deportation and return to Transkei of squatters from the Cape Town are
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Zimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations.
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Talks between Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the African National Council start in a r
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The Prime Minister warns the opposition parties, the United Party and Progressive Party that his government may have to end int
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Harry Schwarz wins the Transvaal party leadership of the United Party (UP) from Marais Steyn.
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The leader of the Zulu Territorial Authority, Chief Buthelezi, calls for a National Convention of all races in South Africa to
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Kenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964.
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Geoffrey Bongumusa Mduduzi Bhengu, member of parliament for the Inkatha Freedom Party and chairman of several commercial enterp
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Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former commissioner of the SA police, is born in Ermelo, Tvl.
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Dorothea (Anne) Fairbridge (69), author of historical fiction and non-fiction, dies in Cape Town.
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Ellen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and leading executive member of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SA
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Anglo Boer War 2: In terms of martial law regulations, the veteran Cape politician, John X Merriman, is confined to his farm ne
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Lord Roberts issues instructions for the final mop-up of guerrillas or ‘rebels’ (i.e. burghers engaged in fighting after the ‘a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: President Steyn arrives at Waterval-Onder to meet President Kruger.
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The Galeler, 446 ton, of Norway, is stranded west of Danger Point, near Mossel Bay.
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The first 25 families from Germany arrive at Swakopmund, German South West Africa (Namibia).
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Sir Thomas Muir, educationist, mathematician and superintendent-general of education in the Cape Colony, is born in Lanarkshire
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Elizabeth Dijkman, author of the first Afrikaans cookery book, is born.
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The 600-ton cargo ship The Duke of Northumberland, en route from Madras to London, is wrecked near Cape Agulhas, CC. No lives a
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Commander Simon van der Stel departs on his long journey to Namaqualand.
Commander Simon van der Stel departs on his long journey to Namaqualand.
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Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h
EventJeremy Cronin and British couple are sentenced in the Cape Town Supreme Court
In the Cape Town Supreme Court a British journalist, David Rabkin, his wife and a South African lecturer, Jeremy Cronin, were sentenced to ten, one, and seven…