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Barclays Bank (SA) announces its new name First National Bank.
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha announces in Parliament that South Africa and Mozambique are to establish joint operational centre
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Carnegie Report on Poverty in South Africa reveals the doubling of Blacks living below the poverty line (1960-1980).
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Carnegie Report on Poverty in South Africa reveals the doubling of Blacks living below the poverty line (1960-1980).
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Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa’s United African National Council has won fifty-one of the seventy-two seats available to Black candida
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Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, receives an honorary M.A. Degree from the University of Fort Hare i
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Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, receives an honorary M.A. Degree from the University of Fort Hare i
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Under an amendment to the Defence Act the definition of superior officer is changed with the effect that White and Black member
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Gambia, who achieved independence on 18 Feb. 1965, becomes a republic within the Commonwealth.
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It is confirmed in London that thirteen African countries have threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh,
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development formally opens the Transkei Assembly Session.
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The Prime Minister of SA maintains that the country is economically so strong that it can withstand economic sanctions. The onl
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Mohammed Bhabha, attorney and member of the National Council of Provinces for Mpumalanga, is born in Roodepoort, West Rand.
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A SA cricket team arrives in England for a test series.
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Security forces round up more than 10,000 men in the biggest anti-Mau Mau operation since the state of emergency was declared i
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Gabriel François de Vos Hugo, judge president of the Northern Cape region and champion for the use of Afrikaans in Natal schoo
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For the next month, until May 25, a comet known only as “The Great Comet of 1901’ is visible over most of SA.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A dynamite factory, which forms part of the Begbie Engineering Workshop, Johannesburg, is destroyed in an exp
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Pieter Johannes Hendrik Coetzee, cultural reformer after the Rebellion in 1914 and World War I, is born in Burgersdorp, CC.
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The corner stone of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Graaff-Reinet, the 6th oldest church building in SA, is laid. It i
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The women and children who arrived with Jan van Riebeeck on board the three ships the Reijger, the Goede Hoop and the Drommedar
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Gregoire Boonzaier (96), one of South Africa’s foremost artists, dies at his home in Onrus River near Hermanus in the Western C
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US President George W Bush takes steps to restore normal trade and investment ties with Libya as a reward to Muammar Gaddafi fo
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Makhaya Ntini, bowler of the SA cricket team, is found guilty of raping a student and is replaced in the SA World Cup team by A
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An earthquake, registering 4,8 on the Richter Scale hits Welkom, trapping 969 miners sixteen hours underground. All but two are
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James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at
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The worst ever recorded floods occur in Mossel Bay and surroundings as 238 mm of rain falls within 24 hours
The worst ever recorded floods occur in Mossel Bay and surroundings as 238 mm of rain falls within 24 hours.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says conditions are appalling for the estimated 100 000 Rwandan refugees that are being denied
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AWB (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) leader Eugene TerreBlanche is convicted of attempted murder and assault in the Magistrates
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