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President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt refuses to resume talks with Israel over the question of Palestinian autonomy.
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The International Olympic Committee bars South Africa from competing in the next Olympic games (1972).
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Pieter Johannes Hendrik Coetzee (75), SA teacher and actor, dies.
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Hours after declaring its independence and the end of Britain’s 28-year-old Palestine mandate, the new state of Israel is attac
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WWII:Operation ‘Brevity’. British forces regain Halfaya Pass and capture the towns of Sollum and Capuzzo on the Egypt–Libya b
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Amy Johnson arrives in England after her record flight of twelve days and fifteen hours from London to Cape Town and back.
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Dr Rudolph Marloth (75), collector of plants and author of botany books, dies in Caledon, Western Cape.
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Abraham J. Kotzé, missionary in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), dies of pneumonia shortly before his return to SA.
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Johannes Hendricus Meiring Beck (63), Union minister, composer and medical practitioner, dies in Rosebank, Cape Town.
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’De Central Westlake Co-operatiewe Landbouw Vereniging’ is founded by forty-five farmers in Klerksdorp.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Vereeniging conference begins. The sixty Boer representatives elect General C.F. Beyers as chairman.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Buller and Lord Dundonald enter Dundee. Lyttelton’s division captures Glencoe.
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Elizabeth Fouché Vermeulen, SA author, is born in Aberdeen.
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The Rev. T.C. (oom Essie) Esterhuysen, missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Transvaal, is born in C
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James Sofasonke (meaning ‘We shall all die’) Mpanza, politician and founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better ho
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The parliamentary building at the top of Adderley Street, Cape Town, is occupied for the first time.
EventInternational Day of Families.
The International Day of Families was proclaimed by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1993, as a day to provide an opportunity to celebrate families…
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Mike Barnardo, SA heavyweight, wins the World Boxing Federation (WBF) title.
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Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international internet competition in which more than 20 000 lea
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Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international internet competition in which more than 20 000 lea
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Speaking before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee for a second time, F.W. de Klerk repeats his assertion that murder and t
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Speaking before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee for a second time, F.W. de Klerk repeats his assertion that murder and t
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A Nigerian freighter with 3 500 Liberian war refugees is allowed to dock in Ghana after being turned away from African ports fo
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Local elections for KwaZulu-Natal are again postponed until 26 June 1996 as a result of persistent violence and administrative
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Turkish newspapers issue harsh criticism of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award named after i
EventWinnie Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela is sentenced to six years
On 14 May 1991, Winnie Nomzamo Mandela, the then-wife of Nelson Mandela was sentenced to six years in jail by a Johannesburg court presided over by Justice…
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A booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, the wife of ANC official R. Mazimba, in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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The Soweto City Council serves notices on Winnie Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Nthato Motlana and Ellen Kuzwayo to pay their rent
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Petrus Vusi Mahlangu of Vlaklaagte No. 2 disappears after being shot at a taxi rank on his way to a meeting at Chief Mabogo’s k
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