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Surfer Shaun Thomson, winner of the World Championship in Hawaii in 1977, is born in Durban.
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Ngoako Abel Ramathlodi, former premier of the Northern Province, is born at the village Tauatswala in the then Northern Transva
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Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat (84), first principal of the Deaf and Blind Institute in Worcester, dies.
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The Soviet Union and Germany sign the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, a 10-year nonaggression treaty, with a secret addendum, to parti
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Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg (75), founder member of the Zuid-Afrikaanse Akademie voor Taal, Letteren en Kunst on 1 and 2 July
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The 4th Pan-African Congress meets in New York City, USA.
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Lord Roberts, commander-in-chief of the British forces during Anglo-Boer War 2, congratulates Gen. Louis Botha on his appointme
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bergendal, near Vanwyksvlei, starts. Gen. Joachim Fourie’s men force the 11th Hussars to retrea
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Cecil John Rhodes visits the Matopos to confer with Matabele chiefs.
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Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the Cape, declares the maintenance of British authority over all emigrant Boers and defines
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Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, is born in Cape Town.
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The Heeren XVII refuses the catching of whales, suggested by Van Riebeeck to supplement the income generated at the Cape.
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Two boys, aged ten and fourteen, die near Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape, after picking up an explosive device they found while hunt
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Regulations granting labour rights for members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) are promulgated and published in the Go
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Zimbabwe intervenes in the Democratic Republic of Congo to support the regime against a rebellion. The last Zimbabwean soldiers
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US military forces attack a chemical plant in Sudan and what they describe as a terrorist camp in Afghanistan. Said to be linke
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Liberia’s main warring factions signed a peace accord calling for a cease-fire after more than five years of civil war and the
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Vuyani Bungu, SA junior featherweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world champion title.
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United Democratic Front (UDF) dissolves.
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George Adamson (83), naturalist and husband of Joy, who wrote Born Free, and two of his assistants are killed by Somali poacher
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President P.W. Botha says ANC members can return to South Africa with “amnesty” if they reject violence.
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South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front, is launched. 15 000 People attend the national lau
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The constitutional proposals are approved by a special session of the National Party Parliamentary caucus. They are subsequentl
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At a Nordic Council meeting in Copenhagen, the Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden recommend an i
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SA announces new concession, giving urban Blacks full title to land on which they live.
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A special conference of National Party office-bearers in Pretoria endorses Prime Minister Vorster’s policies concerning the adm
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Mauritius closes her sea and airports to South Africa and Portugal.
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Israeli government informs the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid that it has taken all necessary steps to ensure th
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Senegal decides to withdraw from the Mali Federation which it has formed with French Sudan (now Mali) in 1959, and gains comple
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