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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 Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) White Paper, put before parliament, calls for an expeditious programme to en
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The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaims the establishment of an independent Palestinian stat
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Thirty-eight African and Asian delegations table a draft resolution in the Trusteeship Committee asking for an effective United
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Egypt brokers an understanding to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence and move toward a peace accord, announced just hours after
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A Hammanskraal policeman, Richard Motasi, an alleged informer for the Zimbabwean security police, and his wife Irene is murdere
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Bob Forster successfully defends his world lightweight title against SA challenger Pierre Fourie during the first-ever boxing c
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Central African Republic becomes an autonomous member of the French Commonwealth with Boganda as president. (Now a National Da
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Sydney Carter, SA painter known for his landscape paintings, dies in President Brand Park, district of Harrismith, OFS.
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Balthasar Johannes (John) Vorster, former prime minister and president of SA, marries Martinie Steyn Malan in Worcester, CP.
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The Steering Committee of CODESA reach an agreement whereby all parties will commit themselves "politically and morally&qu
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Thomas Selema Masekela, SA artist, Chief Health Inspector in Alexandra and later health inspector in Germiston and Sharpeville,
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SA cricket player Jacobus Petrus Duminy, who played in three tests for South Africa (1927-29), is born.
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The General Assembly strongly disapproves SA policy of Apartheid and requests the Secretary-General to establish a United Natio
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Jacob Abraham Jeremy (Japie) de Villiers, chief justice of the Union of SA, is born in Fauresmith, OFS.
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SA signs memorandum of agreement regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the international border bridge over the
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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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President Mandela issues an invitation to Libyan leader Col. M. al Kadhaffi. The National Party considers this could jeopardize
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An Israeli fighter pilot shoots down a Libyan aircraft over the Sinai Desert. Seventy-four passengers and crewmembers die.
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WW2: The 12th African Division, with 1st SA Infantry Brigade in command, captures Kismayu in Somaliland.
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The Rev. D. Wilcocks, lecturer at the Wellington Missionary Institute and clergyman in various places in SA, is born.
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An edict is issued in the Cape Colony forbidding any White person from settling beyond the Gamtoos River.
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SA signs agreement with Namibia regarding standards of livestock breeding and the importation of breeding animals, semen, ova o
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Governor Isbrand Goske dispatches an expedition to Hottentots Holland to decide whether the district is suitable for permanent
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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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In a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) revelation, General Georg Meiring is implicated with more than sixty officers an
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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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