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The SA rugby team beats France 52-10 in the second test, winning the series 2-0.
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SA signs agreement with the government of Switzerland concerning support to the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP).
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SA signs protocol with India on the establishment of consular and diplomatic relations.
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Tom Vraalsen, special envoy of the UN Secretary-General, visits South Africa (22 November 9 December).
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Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide meets with a group of Haitian legislators to negotiate an end to Haiti’s consti
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Exchange of notes establishing diplomatic relations with Romania.
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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, after being defeated by John Major in a ballot for Conservative Party leader, resigns
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South African government announces it has joined Cuba and Angola in endorsing a plan to remove Cuban troops from Angola.
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The Gemini succeeds in its search for the black box of the Helderberg in the sea near Mauritius, nearly a year after it crashed
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Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg.
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Helen Suzman, member of Parliament for Houghton, is elected as national president of the Progressive Federal Party.
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US President Ronald Reagan is in favour of covert aid for UNITA rebels in Angola.
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Abel Ngwenya, Daveyton, dies in police custody, allegedly from an epileptic fit, but the pathologist indicated violence involve
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Keith McFadden and Zwelakhe Nyanda, both ANC members, are shot dead by two gunmen in Manzini, Swaziland.
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The President’s Council, mandated to consider South Africa’s constitutional future, releases its final report.
The President's Council, mandated to consider South Africa's constitutional future, releases its final report. Central items of its plan include establishment…
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The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, outlines a project for a constellation of states to some 250 leading businessmen. Its objective
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Dr Robert Smit, National Party MP for Springs, and his wife, Jean-Cora, are murdered in their home in Springs. The TRC found in
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UN General Assembly gives the Palestine Liberation Organisation observer status.
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President Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea requests UN aid against invading Portuguese troops.
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Rhodesia leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.
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The first General Assembly in Transkei starts.
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Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever
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Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and China’s Chiang Kai-shek agree in Cairo, Egypt,
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WWII: SA troops in North Africa flee before the onslaught of Field-Marshall Erwin Rommel.
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World War 1: North Africa: German L59 Zeppelin starts flight from Bulgaria to Khartoum carrying much needed supplies to General
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The Rev. Willem Postma’s Afrikaans translation of the Bible book Titus is published.
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Instructions are issued to all magistrates in Zululand to assemble the chiefs in their areas, to explain the new poll-tax law.
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President Paul Kruger arrives in Marseille harbour, France, on board the Dutch cruiser Gelderland , sent by Queen Wilhelmina.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Willow Grange, two British soldiers and two burghers are knocked unconscious by lightnin
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