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South Africa signs treaty with Lesotho relating to the establishment of an office for a Lesotho government labour representativ
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The SA rugby team loses the third test against Australia 9-11, bringing the score of the series to 1-2.
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SA wins the Tri-Nations rugby series by beating Australia 29-15 on the Ellis Park field, Johannesburg.
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South Africa signs treaty with Swaziland on the establishment of an office for the Swaziland government labour representative i
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At a Nordic Council meeting in Copenhagen, the Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden recommend an i
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In a telegram to Milner, Chamberlain describes the proposals as “...an immense concession and even a considerable advance on yo
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SA signs memorandum of agreement with Lesotho regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the international border br
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The ANC sent a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end violent police action.
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An Egyptian military court convicts seventy-two Islamic militants of subversion and sentences four of them to death.
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President P.W. Botha admits in Parliament that he personally phoned the SA Broadcasting Corporation and intervened to change a
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The Minister of Justice officially announces that NUSAS has been declared an ‘affected organisation’ under the Affected Organis
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The Johannesburg and the Namibian Stock Exchanges sign an accord for the exchange of technology, skills and information.
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Following an international campaign for clemency, the Bloemfontein Appeal Court overrules the death sentence on James Mange and
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The Lesotho government announces that an undisclosed number of South African refugees have decided voluntarily to withdraw from
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An intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, involving 133 Angolan soldiers, anti-apartheid activists, Klaas de Jonge,
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A gas explosion devastates the officers’ club of the SA National Defence Force, a national monument, in Wynberg, Cape Town.
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An elephant tramples German tourist Rita Hahn to death on the Hans Merensky golf course in Phalaborwa, Limpopo.
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The SA rugby team loses the second test against France 16-29 in Paris, thereby losing the series.
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Guy Tachard, a French astronomer, sets up an observatory in die Company Gardens at the Cape of Good Hope.
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John Erskine (Jack) Cheetham, SA cricket player in twenty-four test matches, is born in Mowbray, Cape Town.
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Sathyandranath Ragunanan (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and former SA Minister of Transport, is born in Newcastle, Natal. He
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Dinana Mbetheni (21) is found hanging from an electric wire tied to a bar in his cell in Alice.
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Dorothy Fischer becomes the first woman in SA to receive a new heart. She lives for twelve years afterwards.
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Alexander John (Sandy) Bell, SA cricket player in sixteen test matches (1929-1935), is born in East London.
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Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.
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Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.
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Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.
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The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Afr
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An agreement is reached between President F.W. de Klerk, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and Inkatha’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi restr
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