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Masibulela Hawk Makepula, SA junior flyweight, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Union in that category.
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The sale of six state-owned provincial radio stations has realised R520 million, to be spend on reducing state debt, new infras
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The Constitutional Court rules that President Nelson Mandela exceeded his power by decreasing electoral boundaries.
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South Africa signs joint communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Ecuador.
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Political assassinations: Nhlanhla Makhanya (14), Rev. Mntambo, his son and an employee, Mr Mtshali, Mr Ngenya and Siyabonga Go
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Dingaan Thobela, lightweight of SA, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) title.
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Odette Boucher disappears after school in Kempton Park. Later evidence points to the fact that she was abducted by paedophile G
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The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) launches a national campaign to focus on government repression during the
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Diederik Johannes Opperman, Afrikaans poet, dramatist, litterateur, and professor of the University of Stellenbosch, dies in St
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The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill is enacted.
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The Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) reverses its 1972 decision to expel HNP (Herstigte Nasionale Party) members from its ranks.
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Signs treaty with Zimbabwe for the reciprocal appointment of trade representatives.
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It is reported that the President, Vice-President and Secretary-General of the Hervormde Kerk (Reformed Church) of the Netherla
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The Prime Minister pays a secret visit (22-23 September) to the Ivory Coast in pursuit of his policy of seeking dialogue with B
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Idi Amin gives Uganda’s 8,000 Asians forty-eight hours to leave the country.
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A Commission of the South African Council of Churches publishes a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Chris
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Mali (without Senegal) gains independence from France (National Day).
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William Henry Brann (54), SA cricket player in three tests, 1922 /1923, dies in Port Elizabeth.
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Twenty non-White leaders are put on trial on charges under Suppression of Communism Act. The accused include Dr. J. S. Moroka,
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Andries Johannes Botha, SA sculptor, is born in Durban, Natal.
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Peter Whipp, SA rugby player, is born.
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South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive, meeting in Cape Town, elects Sorabjee Rustomjee as a delegate of SAIC to the me
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Dr Anton Rupert establishes the Voorbrand Tobacco Company in Commissioner Street, Johannesburg.
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Slavery is abolished in Sierra Leone, Africa.
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Douglas Portway, SA born artist who left SA and has since resided in several European countries, is born in Johannesburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British, under Col. Settle, enter Schweizer-Reneke, in western Transvaal.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: As result of a military notice on this date, the first two refugee camps are established at Pretoria and Bloe
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR takes over control of the railway lines and workshops of the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg
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Chief Sekwati, Pedi paramount chief, dies in Mosega and is succeeded by his son Sekhukhune I.
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