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Harold Vane Baumgartner, SA cricket player in one test (1913/1914), is born in Henley-on-Thames, England.
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The Midge (61 tons) is stranded near Plettenberg Bay. The captain is accused of negligence because the anchor was rusted.
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The Suez Canal in Egypt, which has taken ten years to build, is formally opened. Date is given as 16th in some sources.
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The ANC suspends national assembly chief whip Mbulelo Goniwe, pending the outcome of a disciplinary hearing into sexual harassm
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The controversial ANC manager of the Central Karoo District Municipality at Beaufort West, Truman Prince, is suspended with imm
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The UN Security Council has voted unanimously to impose an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast.
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The Burundian president and the CNDD/FDD rebel leader mark formal end to the ten-year civil war.
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United Nations officially abandons search for Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid.
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Judge Goldstone makes an urgent plea to the SAG for wider powers, more resources and greater co-operation for his investigation
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The Goldstone Commission, following its raid on the SADF on November 11, states that it has found that Ferdi Barnard, a convict
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SA signs treaty with Romania establishing consular and trade relations.
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President F.W. de Klerk announces SA beaches open to all racial groups and promises repeal of Separate Amenities Act.
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A car bomb kills four exiles, including two children, in Gaborone, Botswana.
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Police arrest 2,300 people in the Black township of Sebokeng in what is believed to be the biggest raid against Blacks living i
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British newspapers report that South African mercenaries are helping UNITA against the MPLA in Angola.
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Owing to a national oil shortage, speed limits of 50 km per hour in built-up areas and 80 km per hour on other roads are declar
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Dr. Beyers Naudé, Director of the Christian Institute, is found guilty by a Pretoria regional court of refusing to testi
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The SA rugby team beats France 16-11 in Paris.
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Siamese twins are separated in Cape Town, the first successful operation of that kind in SA.
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British Parliament draws up sanctions against Ian Smith’s regime in Rhodesia. Sir Humphrey Gibbs, the British Governor of Rhode
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4,000 Black postal workers have refused to give oaths of loyalty to Ian Smith’s government in Rhodesia.
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Joshua Nkomo and sixteen supporters are released from jail in Southern Rhodesia.
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A list of 437 persons said to have been office-bearers, officers, members or active supporters of the banned Communist Party of South Africa is published
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After the bodies of thirteen Italian UN soldiers are "sold" in a Congo market, UN Secretary-General U Thant orders UN
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Pretoria celebrates its centenary in lavish fashion, under mayoralty of Dr Hilgard Muller, later SA Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Egypt agrees to a UN supervised referendum in Sudan to determine its future.
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King Farouk, Egypt, demands the "total and immediate evacuation" of all British troops from the Suez Canal Zone.
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Chinua Achebe, Nigerian (Igbo) novelist, whose first novel Things Fall Apart was published in 1958, is born.
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Elsa Fouché, SA actress, is born at Kommissiedrift, district of Rustenburg, Tvl.
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