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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Angola ends in a tie with no goals scored.

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Walter Sisulu addresses an African National Congress meeting in Durban and gives a comprehensive account of his travel through

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Belgian aviator Albert Kimmerling gives a successful flying display in Johannesburg, an event marking the start of serious avia

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Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, is born in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia.

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More than 1000 people are reported drowned or missing when an Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea.

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Richard Mzamane Mabaso, SA artist, is born in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He started drawing and carving without any instruc

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An Air Senegal plane carrying European tourists crashes in Senegal, killing at least twenty people and injuring thirty.

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The first memorial stamps with surtax are issued in SA. They are known as the Voortrekker Memorial Stamps.

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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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Eric Sturgess, SA tennis player who won a title in the mixed doubles on Wimbledon, is born in Johannesburg.

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An elderly resident of Pretoria, Hester Scheepers, of the Moot, dies five days before her 105th birthday.

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Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor

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Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.

This day in history

Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.

This day in history

The home match between Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius, ends in a tie with no goals scored.

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The amnesty commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses applications for amnesty of a further seventy-nine AN

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Thousands of Liberians flee their homes amid fierce fighting between government troops and members of an ethnic faction.

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UN troops defending an airfield in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by ‘mobs’.

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Jacob Matlala, SA flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) world champion title. Jacob Matlala [online] Available at

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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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Suspected guerrillas using RPG 7 rocket-launchers attack the Soweto City Council offices. An hour later, 3 limpet mine blas

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SA signs amendment with Great Britain to the agreement on civil air services signed on 26 October 1945.

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Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, Presi

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The Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, to which SA is a party, is signed in Vienna.

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The Transkei Territorial Authority, instituted in 1956 to replace the former Bunga, becomes an all-Black administrative body.

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A United Nations official says South Africa and the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) have formally accepted an

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Referring to allegations that a vendetta is being conducted against churches and religious workers in SA, Prime Minister Vorste

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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Angola ends in a tie with no goals scored.

Walter Sisulu addresses an African National Congress meeting in Durban and gives a comprehensive account of his travel through

Belgian aviator Albert Kimmerling gives a successful flying display in Johannesburg, an event marking the start of serious avia

Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, is born in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia.

More than 1000 people are reported drowned or missing when an Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea.

Richard Mzamane Mabaso, SA artist, is born in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He started drawing and carving without any instruc

An Air Senegal plane carrying European tourists crashes in Senegal, killing at least twenty people and injuring thirty.

The first memorial stamps with surtax are issued in SA. They are known as the Voortrekker Memorial Stamps.

Alexander John (Sandy) Bell, SA cricket player in sixteen test matches (1929-1935), is born in East London.

Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.

Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.

Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.

Eric Sturgess, SA tennis player who won a title in the mixed doubles on Wimbledon, is born in Johannesburg.

An elderly resident of Pretoria, Hester Scheepers, of the Moot, dies five days before her 105th birthday.

Peter Allan, physician, health administrator and founder of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor

Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.

Pfizer Inc. agrees to supply AIDS patients attending public hospitals with an unlimited two-year supply of fluconozale.

The home match between Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius, ends in a tie with no goals scored.

The amnesty commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses applications for amnesty of a further seventy-nine AN

Thousands of Liberians flee their homes amid fierce fighting between government troops and members of an ethnic faction.

UN troops defending an airfield in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by ‘mobs’.

Jacob Matlala, SA flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) world champion title. Jacob Matlala [online] Available at

Abraham J. Kotzé, missionary in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), dies of pneumonia shortly before his return to SA.

Suspected guerrillas using RPG 7 rocket-launchers attack the Soweto City Council offices. An hour later, 3 limpet mine blas

SA signs amendment with Great Britain to the agreement on civil air services signed on 26 October 1945.

Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, Presi

The Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, to which SA is a party, is signed in Vienna.

The Transkei Territorial Authority, instituted in 1956 to replace the former Bunga, becomes an all-Black administrative body.

A United Nations official says South Africa and the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) have formally accepted an

Referring to allegations that a vendetta is being conducted against churches and religious workers in SA, Prime Minister Vorste