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International Day for Biological Diversity.
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, beats Turkey 2-0. .
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Gen. Kat Liebenberg (60), ex-chief of the SA defence force, dies of cancer in Pretoria.
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The governing Lesotho Congress for Democracy wins the election in Lesotho with Pakalitha Mosisili as premier.
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The South African Cabinet decides to apply for membership of the Commonwealth.
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South Africa is formally accepted as the 53rd member of the OAU.
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Thirteen residents are killed in an attack on a beer hall by unknown men.
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President De Klerk says that twenty-one Coloured representatives have joined the ruling National Party.
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The ruling National Party loses the Ladybrand by-election to the Conservative Party.
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A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in
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Simon Maswanganye, executive member of the Soweto Civic Association, is allegedly shot by a group of men in a white minibus in
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The US expels the South African military attaché in response to raids by South African forces into Botswana, Zambia, and
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In response to a car bomb attack in Pretoria which killed nineteen people, the South African air force bombs ANC bases in a Map
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The State Theatre in Pretoria opens with a brilliant performance.
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Mozambique and Zimbabwe sign an agreement on military co-operation.
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The Fort Klapperkop military museum, Pretoria, mainly illustrating the period from the Great Trek to 1902, is opened by Preside
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The SA rugby team beats Wales in Durban 24-3.
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A US miscalculation results in one kilogram of plutonium being released into the atmosphere above Africa.
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Albert Luthuli’s ban expires again but he is immediately served with a new and stricter order.
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General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Algiers formally recognises the Algerian juntas.
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Ex-president Pierre Mendés-France resigns from the French Cabinet in disgust over the current crackdown in Algeria.
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Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, teacher, politician and journalist, born in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district in 1861, dies in River
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Moss Lebakeng Leoka, executive chair of Makulu Consolidating Holdings and director of several boards, is born in Orlando East,
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India asks its High Commissioner in South Africa, Ramrao Madhavrao Deshmukh, to return for consultations. He sails for India th
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Rejoice Thizwilondi Mabudafhazi , Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism of the Republic of South Africa since 1
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Evelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Leipzig, Germany.
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Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania. He died on 6 Jan. 1995.
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France captures the Rif capital, Targuist.
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British soldiers are called out in Alexandria to restore order after riots by nationalists. The riots follow the departure of a
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