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The second in command of Uganda’s LRA rebel movement, Brigadier Charles Tabuley is reportedly killed in an ambush. 29 October
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A river of fire ignited by an oil tank explosion surges through a village in southern Egypt, killing more than 410 people.
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Lieutenant General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in Gibraltar to set up an American command post for the invasion of North Afric
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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which SA is a party, is signed in Montego Bay.
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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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Princess Margaret, 71, younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies.
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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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Algerian government cancels second round of voting in parliamentary elections that an Islamic party looks set to win. The Islam
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Speaking to the House of Assembly, SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd states that territorial separation is not the essential part
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final versus Tunisia 2-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg.
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An abridged version of the security report by Justice H.J. Potgieter’s Commission of Inquiry on State Security is submitted to
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The Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat, to which SA is a party, is signed in Ra
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The Herschel School opens in Claremont, Cape Town. It is named after Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer an
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President De Klerk announces the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong an
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The Swiss government sends an official protest to the South African government over the illegal activities of South African age
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The United Nations adopts resolution 385 in which guidelines was laid down for an internationally accepted settlement of the So
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WW2: Five power stations are blown up by pro-Axis saboteurs in an attempt to destabilise the Rand gold mines.
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Munitions at an army base in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air and fo
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Quarterfinal versus Algeria 2-1 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesb
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SA signs protocol on cooperation between the Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa and the Ministry of External Affairs
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Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near
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The SA cricket team beats the West Indies with nine wickets in Durban to lead 3-0 in the series of five.
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Justice Coetzee in the Rand Supreme Court refuses to lift an order barring resumption of publication of four Black newspapers.
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Albert Kimmerling, a visiting Frenchman, is the first person to fly in SA. He reaches a height of 6m at East London.
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Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
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