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Seven Nigerian United Nations peacekeepers are killed in an ambush by Somalis in Mogadishu.
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Prof. Pothinus Carl Matsiri Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, dies in Mankweng
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Chris Hani is reported as saying that the ANC alliance is “preparing for a battle in the Ciskei” to remove parasites, obviously
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Venda Reincorporation Forum Act No 5, providing for the re-incorporation of Venda into South Africa, commences.
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Two gunmen open fire on a crowd of commuters in Jeppe railway station, Johannesburg, killing five persons and injuring fourteen
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Twenty-nine (numbers differ, according to the police nineteen) people are killed in an attack by police on election protestors
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For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for representatives
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Government orders closure of all Coloured schools.
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Former American Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, lectures South Africans on the need for racial reform and a new Constit
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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t
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Agnes Alwena (Wena) Naudé (72), SA stage and cinema actress, dies in Pretoria.
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Sonny Leon, leader of the Labour Party in the Coloured Representative Council (CRC) resigns, ostensibly for health reasons. His
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The last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay.
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 11-3 in Newlands.
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Swaziland becomes independent within the Commonwealth.
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Prime Minister HF Verwoerd is assassinated in parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas.
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Sibongile Millicent Manana, MEC for Health, Mpumalanga Provincial Government, is born in Ermelo, Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). Sh
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The Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor-General of SA, Dr E.G. Jansen during a concert by
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Mohammed Kedir, 10k runner (Olympic-bronze-1980), is born in Ethiopia.
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Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South African Kwazulu politician, is born.
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Prof. Jacobus Johannes le Roux, linguist and Afrikaans cultural leader, dies in Pietermaritzburg, Natal.
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Bhekisani Manyoni, S.A artist, is born in Greytown, Natal.
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South Africa declares war on Germany, causing dissent amongst pro-war and anti-war sections.
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Johan Frederik van Oordt (D’Arbez), early Afrikaans author of historical stories, dies.
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Gerard Bhengu (also Benghu Bengu), SA artist, is born at an outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer distric
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under Gen. French occupy Carolina.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces under Gen. Buller occupy Lydenburg.
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The nineteen year old Princess Wilhelmina is crowned as queen of the Netherlands. She strongly sympathised with the cause of
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King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns.
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