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Twenty-nine (numbers differ, according to the police nineteen) people are killed in an attack by police on election protestors

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WWI: A body of Active Citizen Force (A.C.F.) troops of the Union of SA, nearly 1 800 strong, lands at Lüderitsbucht (Angra P

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The Paralympic Games open in Athens, with Amakrokokroko table tennis star Rosabelle Riese carrying the SA flag and leading the

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Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, dies in Kimberl

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The SA government transfers R2bn to the Independent Development Trust to ‘overcome the backlog in the socio-economic developmen

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Gen. C.F. Beyers, Commandant-General of SA, resigns his commission in protest against the resolution of the government to enter

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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) declines an invitation by the Durban Mayor’s office to enable members of the Indian community t

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In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria reply that Johannesburg is named after Johann Friedrich Bernhard Rissik and Ch

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The SA rugby team loses the third test against the British Isles 16-21 in Newlands, but wins the series 2-1.

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An agreement is signed for the sale of Anglo America’s almost 48 percent shareholding in Johnnies Industrial Corporation to the

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Faced with an increasingly critical and protest media that support the democratisation of South Africa, the Minister of Home Af

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George Cary Hobson, SA author, is born in Graaff-Reinet district. Together with his brother, S.B. Hobson, they formed a uniqu

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Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signs an agreement in Cairo to expand Palestinian autonomy from Gaza to the We

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An explosion takes place at the Ciskei consulate offices in the Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, in which one person is injured. I

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Negotiators at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva reach an agreement that would allow poor countries with seve

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Residents of Peelton receive an undertaking in the Ciskei Supreme Court, Bisho, that no unlawful arrest or harassment by police

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The London Times, a British newspaper based in London, publishes an article paying tribute to King Sekhukhune of the Marota Emp

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James Andrew Gray, SA journalist, newspaper proprietor and editor of the Pretoria News (1924-1932), is born in Scotland. He w

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Scorpion investigators raid the upmarket Glenhurst wine farm boxes of documents are removed. The raid is part of an ongoing b

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The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Sub-Committee opens an inquiry into the South African operations of 320 Am

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SA signs agreement with the Republic of China concerning the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion

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Prof. Johan Heyns, moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and participant in a panel discussion filmed by an American tel

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Angolan government troops break into Unita rebel-held highlands in an attempt to open a supply corridor to the embattled city o

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Henry Smith, an Umlaas Road farmer and popular master, accompanies his workers to Camperdown to pay their taxes. That evening,

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Guy Tachard, a French astronomer who set up an observatory in die Company Gardens in the Cape, makes his first observations.

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David Nthubu Koloane, SA artist, is born in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He received his art training at the Bill Ainslie Studi

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A SA fishing trawler, the Sudurhavid, comes to grief at the Falkland Islands and seventeen of the thirty-eight crewmembers drow

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Makhosi Nyoka, Lindiwe Mthembu, Surendra Naidu and Nontsikelelo Cothoza, all ANC members, are shot in an ambush near Piet Retie

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Rebel leader Laurent Kabila, after a plea from the United Nations, agrees to delay an attack on Zaire’s largest refugee camp. T

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Simon Moshapo, SA artist, is born in Waterpoort district, Northern Transvaal. He taught art at Batlhalerwa High School for pa

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Twenty-nine (numbers differ, according to the police nineteen) people are killed in an attack by police on election protestors

WWI: A body of Active Citizen Force (A.C.F.) troops of the Union of SA, nearly 1 800 strong, lands at Lüderitsbucht (Angra P

The Paralympic Games open in Athens, with Amakrokokroko table tennis star Rosabelle Riese carrying the SA flag and leading the

Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, dies in Kimberl

The SA government transfers R2bn to the Independent Development Trust to ‘overcome the backlog in the socio-economic developmen

Gen. C.F. Beyers, Commandant-General of SA, resigns his commission in protest against the resolution of the government to enter

The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) declines an invitation by the Durban Mayor’s office to enable members of the Indian community t

In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria reply that Johannesburg is named after Johann Friedrich Bernhard Rissik and Ch

The SA rugby team loses the third test against the British Isles 16-21 in Newlands, but wins the series 2-1.

An agreement is signed for the sale of Anglo America’s almost 48 percent shareholding in Johnnies Industrial Corporation to the

Faced with an increasingly critical and protest media that support the democratisation of South Africa, the Minister of Home Af

George Cary Hobson, SA author, is born in Graaff-Reinet district. Together with his brother, S.B. Hobson, they formed a uniqu

Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signs an agreement in Cairo to expand Palestinian autonomy from Gaza to the We

An explosion takes place at the Ciskei consulate offices in the Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, in which one person is injured. I

Negotiators at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva reach an agreement that would allow poor countries with seve

Residents of Peelton receive an undertaking in the Ciskei Supreme Court, Bisho, that no unlawful arrest or harassment by police

The London Times, a British newspaper based in London, publishes an article paying tribute to King Sekhukhune of the Marota Emp

James Andrew Gray, SA journalist, newspaper proprietor and editor of the Pretoria News (1924-1932), is born in Scotland. He w

Scorpion investigators raid the upmarket Glenhurst wine farm boxes of documents are removed. The raid is part of an ongoing b

The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Sub-Committee opens an inquiry into the South African operations of 320 Am

SA signs agreement with the Republic of China concerning the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion

Prof. Johan Heyns, moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and participant in a panel discussion filmed by an American tel

Angolan government troops break into Unita rebel-held highlands in an attempt to open a supply corridor to the embattled city o

Henry Smith, an Umlaas Road farmer and popular master, accompanies his workers to Camperdown to pay their taxes. That evening,

Guy Tachard, a French astronomer who set up an observatory in die Company Gardens in the Cape, makes his first observations.

David Nthubu Koloane, SA artist, is born in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He received his art training at the Bill Ainslie Studi

A SA fishing trawler, the Sudurhavid, comes to grief at the Falkland Islands and seventeen of the thirty-eight crewmembers drow

Makhosi Nyoka, Lindiwe Mthembu, Surendra Naidu and Nontsikelelo Cothoza, all ANC members, are shot in an ambush near Piet Retie

Rebel leader Laurent Kabila, after a plea from the United Nations, agrees to delay an attack on Zaire’s largest refugee camp. T

Simon Moshapo, SA artist, is born in Waterpoort district, Northern Transvaal. He taught art at Batlhalerwa High School for pa