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The Paralympic Games open in Athens, with Amakrokokroko table tennis star Rosabelle Riese carrying the SA flag and leading the
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South African house prices have been growing at the second fastest pace in the world over the last few years, according to The
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The ANC has come out the biggest winner in the municipal councillor floor-crossing period, notching up at least 290 councillors
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The South African Weather Service is officially launched by the Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism to provide public
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The South African Gymnastics Federation announces in Johannesburg that the first ever National Gymnastic Games will be taking p
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Breyten Breytenbach receives the Hertzog Prize for his two poetry volumes, ‘Oorblyfsels: ‘n roudig’ and ‘Papierblom’.
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President Thabo Mbeki receives an Honorary Doctorate from the Rand Afrikaans University.
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Demonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho to protest election results, while a week-old mutiny by a
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Abraham Geldenhuys (66), former Springbok wrestler, dies in Bellville of lung cancer.
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A fistfight between parliamentarians of the ANC and National Party erupts in the parliament in Cape Town. Johnny de Lange of th
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The South African Foreign Affairs Department denies Iranian media reports that the government has endorsed Iran’s human rights
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The Labour Party decides to disband after twenty-nine years in existence.
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Ten people die in Umtata, Transkei when ANC slogan chanters storm them in a well-orchestrated attack on stock thieves.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu and religious leaders from South Africa’s Hindu and Muslim communities hold talks with the African Nati
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Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat and US President Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David accord, laying the groundwork for a permanent pea
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The Prime Minister and Chief Kaiser Matanzima sign a total of sixty-five documents concerning the establishment of an independe
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Cyprian Bhekuzulu Nyangayezizwe KaDinuzulu, fourth son of Solomon KaDinuzulu and Paramount Chief of the Zulus for twenty years,
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Prime Minister Vorster criticises the decision to include a Coloured cricketer, Basil d’Oliveira, in the British MCC team to to
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Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, dies in Kimberl
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Frances Beatrice Marshoff, Premier of Free State Province since 22 April 2004, is born.
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The SA rugby team beats New Zealand 11-8 in Port Elizabeth and wins the series 4-0.
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Maria Helena Gertruida Christina Lee (49) is executed for the murder on her lover, Alwyn Smith.
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Roy Martin Macnab, writer, poet and former cultural attaché in London, is born in Durban.
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António Agostinho Neto, first president of Angola, is born in the town of Icolo e Bengo in Angola.
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The match between the rugby teams of SA and New Zealand ends in a draw with no points being scored.
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SA accepts the German South West Africa mandate.
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Ernest George Bock, SA cricket player in one test match (1935/1936), is born in Kimberley.
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Joseph Chamberlain, British colonial secretary who played an important role in Britain’s decisions on South Africa and other Br
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant-General Louis Botha and General Cheere Emmett join forces to invade Natal.
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