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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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Nineteen youths, under whom four South Africans, are killed in an adventure sport accident near Interlaken, in the Swiss Alps.
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The engagement of Marike, first wife of Pres. F.W. de Klerk, to Johan Koekemoer, Johannesburg businessman and accountant, is an
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Rand Daily Mail explains that Black and White South Africans might compete against each other in an “open international” meetin
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Dr. Peter Waddington of Reading University, who had been invited by the Goldstone Commission to make an independent inquiry int
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The last six SA mercenaries from the attempted Seychelles coup are pardoned, freed and arrive in Johannesburg. The Minister of
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Marches organised by the African National Congress, SA Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions are held
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The SA defence force attacks alleged ANC homes and offices in Gaborone, Botswana, in Operation Plecksy. Twelve or thirteen peop
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Jabulani Sibisi, Joseph Mthembu, Sifiso Nxumalo and Nkosinthi Thenjekwayo, all ANC members, are shot dead in an ambush near Pie
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The Naledi branch of the SA Students Movement holds a meeting, attended by representatives of all Soweto schools, at which it i
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The health department slams the SA National Blood Service for revealing that Mbeki’s blood had been rejected because he decline
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