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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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Dr Daniël Francois Malan, premier of SA at the age of 74, is born in Riebeeck West, CC.
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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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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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The first memorial stamps with surtax are issued in SA. They are known as the Voortrekker Memorial Stamps.
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Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State.
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João Albasini, trader in SA, Bantu commissioner and White chief of the Magwamba tribe, is born in Portugal.
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The military administration of the Ciskei under Brigadier Joshua Gqozo unbans various organisations, including the ANC, UDF, SA
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The military administration of the Ciskei under Brigadier Joshua Gqozo unbans various organisations, including the ANC, UDF, SA
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An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.
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The Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.
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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.
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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 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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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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An Arab oil embargo against South Africa brings the prospects of rationing and the extension of conservation measures.
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UNICEF says fighting and crop failures in southern Sudan have forced an unprecedented exodus of 200 000 people.
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Fifty-four members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated by an Egyptian Military court during a pre-election purge.
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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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Eric Hendrik Louw, SA minister of finance and first ambassador to the US, is born in Jacobsdal, OFS.
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Nadine Gordimer, SA author and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, is born in Springs.
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