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Following an order granted to the KwaZulu government by the Supreme Court in Natal, officials of the Department of Cooperation
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The British Conservative government’s intention to resume arms supplies to SA is announced in the House of Commons. Other Commo
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An Egyptian immigrant armed with two handguns and a hunting knife fatally shoots two people and injures several others near the
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Jacob Daniël du Toit (Totius) (76), SA theologian, poet and co-translator of the Bible into Afrikaans, dies in Pretoria.
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Notes for an address by President Nelson Mandela at a meeting with the Western Cape business community Cape Town 6 December 1996
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Cornelis Jacob Langenhoven, SA author, i.a. “Die Stem”, advocate and editor of Het Zuid-Westen, is born in Ladismith, C.P.
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SA international acclaimed swimmer and world record holder, Penny Heyns, is born. This date might be wrong. Several sources giv
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The SA cricket team loses the 5th test against England with 24 runs in Headingley. England wins the series 2-1.
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Fourteen people die in an attack on a cinema building in Umlazi where the funeral service for murdered UDFmember, Victoria Mxen
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King Moshesh (Moshoeshoe, Msheshwe) of the Basuto beats off an attack by Com. Louw Wepener of the Orange Free State.
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The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, to which SA is a party,
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Prince James Mahlangu and Mr Fanie Fanyana brings an urgent application in the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Cou
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Cyprian Mpho Shilakoe, SA artist, is born in Barberton, Eastern Transvaal. He died in September, 1972, in a motor car accid
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John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour
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Germany rejects Britain’s call to effectively double aid for some of the world’s poorest countries, an adviser to Chancellor Ge
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The Chairman of Armscor announces that under an agreement with a French aviation company, Mirage III and F jet fighters will be
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Dr William Guybon Atherstone (84), medical practitioner and scientist who was probably the first to use an anaesthetic in any B
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It is alleged that Pres. Mandela concluded a transaction of R2,7 billion with Col. Muammar Gaddafi, promising weapons from SA i
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The Star newspaper mentions that hundreds of Black people are leaving the Witwatersrand, especially for Natal, and calls it an
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Hendrik Hop, leader of an expedition to the north of the Orange River, is born in the district of Paarl.
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The first completely SA built aeroplane is flown by John Weston in Kimberley. He establishing a South African non-stop flight r
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The Scot arrives in Southampton, four days after Barney Barnato was drowned near Madeira. An immediate inquest into his dea
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The Act of Parliament, becoming law from this date, achieves the abolition of slavery as an institution throughout the British
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The chief of the SA defence force, Gen. Jannie Geldenhuys, announces that the Citizens Cooperation Bureau (CCB) will be disband
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The chief of the SA defence force, Gen. Jannie Geldenhuys, announces that the Citizens Cooperation Bureau (CCB) will be disband
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The Federal Congress of the National Party supports the set of constitutional reforms outlined by Prime Minister P.W. Botha, an
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In the Geneva session of the United nations Economic and Social Council, an Argentinean resolution state that South Africa shal
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The SA rugby team plays for the first time against a team of the British Isles, and lose 0-4 in Port Elizabeth.
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Anglo-Boer War 2 -General Marthinus Prinsloo, leader of the Republican forces in the Brandwater Basin, sends an emissary to Gen
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