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Minister of Coloured Affairs, J.J. Loots announces that larger Coloured group areas will gradually be transformed into full-fle
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Sasol (Die Suid-Afrikaanse Steenkool-, Olie- en Gaskorporasie) is registered.
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 22-9 in Port Elizabeth, winning the series 3-1.
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Personnel of the SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron leave Durban to assist the United Nations in the Korean War.
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Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka establishes the African Democratic Party in conjunction with Senator Hyman Basner. The organisation had
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Hester Henriette Grove, born Venter, SA author and dramatist, is born in the Potchefstroom district, western Transvaal. She was
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Sidney Mendelssohn, collector of Africana and author of the South African Bibliography in 1910, dies in London.
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Margaret Mary Smith, artist and ichthyologist, is born in Indwe, Eastern Cape. She illustrated the book of her husband, Prof. J
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Young physicist of Switzerland, Einstein publishes his daring new theory, known as the special theory of relativity
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Fort Prospect, about fifteen kilometres east of Itala, is defended by about 80 men under Captain Rowley of
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR government formally requests military assistance from the Orange Free State in accordance with the
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Prof. James Leonard Brierly Smith, who identified the coelacanth caught near East London, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
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Schabir Shaik’s appeal against his June 2005 Durban High Court fraud and corruption conviction starts in the Supreme Court of A
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Allan Boesak, one of the participants in the Rainbow Debate at a heritage festival in Eersterus where a large part of the debat
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An Islamic appeals court in Nigeria frees Amina Lawal after she is acquitted on adultery charges.
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Moody Awori is appointed as Kenya’s vice president.
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The Star reports the death of Onicca Mashingo, ANC stalwart, after being attacked by a dog.
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Wele Maqolo, SA mini flyweight, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Federation (WBF).
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Nic Mallet is appointed as SA’s sixth rugby coach in five years.
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Mangosuthu Buthelezi, home affairs minister and president of the IFP interrupts a live studio broadcast of an interview with Pr
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Three US soldiers are killed in Somalia when their helicopter is shot down.
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Gazankulu Criminal Procedure Amendment Act No 9 commences.
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French Trade and Industry Minister on week-long visit to SA.
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The Commission of Inquiry into the 1986 Unrest and Alleged Mismanagement in KwaNdebele, originally to be headed by Mr Justice W
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Thirteen Inkatha Youth Brigade members, attending a meeting, are killed.
Thirteen Inkatha Youth Brigade members, attending a meeting in a house, are killed by a group, including three off-duty police officers in KwaShange,…
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Egypt and Jordan formally resume diplomatic relations. Jordan announces it will restore relations with Egypt, something no Arab
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The SA rugby team wins the first test against the USA in New York 38-7. Ray Mordt of SA scores in his second consecutive te
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The Minister of Manpower Utilisation, Fanie Botha, tells the Conference of the Federated Chamber of Industries that migrant wor
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The trial begins of eleven Soweto students charged under the Terrorism Act.
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