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A painting by SA painter Irma Stern is auctioned for the record price of R1.1 m in Johannesburg.
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Twenty people die when gunmen open fire on the house of an IFP member in Umbumbulu, Natal.
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The General Assembly requests the Secretary-General to conduct an investigation into reports concerning a nuclear explosion by
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SA ratifies a treaty with Switzerland on the avoidance of double taxation with respect to taxes on income.
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Dr George Lindsay Johnson, SA ophthalmologist and authority on the eyes of animals, is born in England.
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SA exchanges notes with Sudan regarding the establishment of a trade representative office of the Sudan in Pretoria.
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Cecil John Rhodes, SA statesman after whom Rhodesia was named, is born in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.
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Notes for an address by President Nelson Mandela to the Foreign Correspondents Association Johannesburg, 21 November 1997
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SA signs memorandum of understanding with the government of Malaysia concluding agreements that enhance trade and investment.
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SA signs agreement with Paraguay on the partial waiver of visa requirements for holders of ordinary passports.
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SA and Russia sign a declaration of intent providing for wide-ranging co-operation of mineral beneficiation technologies.
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Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula meets British officials amid concerns about false SA passports discovered during
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University of Cape Town students disrupt an annual campus dinner, forcing guest speaker Dennis Worrall to leave.
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Security forces arrest fifty armed Islamic extremists and seize an arms cache containing 130 bombs in Algiers.
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Alexander John (Sandy) Bell (79), SA cricket player in sixteen tests (1929-1935), dies in Cape Town.
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The Kenyan Air Force disbands following an attempted coup by non-commissioned officers in which 159 died.
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The Cotonou Agreement, a trade and aid framework, of which SA is a member, is signed in Cotonou, Benin.
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The General Assembly approves the credentials of the South African delegation, after decades as an international outcast.
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In an effort to solve the ‘Uitlander’ grievances regarding voting rights, Pres. Kruger institutes a Second Volksraad, responsib
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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Denmark ends in a tie with the score 1-1.
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An ANC spokesman in Lusaka calls for increased participation by White sympathisers in the Black emancipation struggle.
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The SA Communist Party is founded at a conference of socialist parties in Cape Town (27 July 3 August).
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The official launch of the South African Communist Party (SACP) as an above-ground organisation takes place.
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Dorothea Möller-Malan, SA missionary and writer, is born in Winburg, OFS, as Dorothea Catherina Stoffelina Malan.
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Leon Schuster, SA actor, comedian and singer, announces that he and his wife Lalie are getting a divorce.
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Prof. Johan Combrink (60), Afrikaans lecturer and linguist, dies in Stellenbosch of complications following an asthma attack.
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Federale Volksbeleggings Bpk. (F.V.B.) and Bonus Investment Corporation of South Africa Ltd. (Bonuscor) establish the mining an
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In Cape Town SA gains a victory of 27-9 against the English rugby team, thereby sharing the series.
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Basil Rathbone, SA born actor who played the role of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen movies, is born.
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