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According to the SABS Metrication News of this date, ‘massmeter’ is now the correct name for scales and balances in SA.

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

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Ben Turok is sentenced to three years imprisonment for attempting to cause an explosion in the centre of Johannesburg in Februa

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A UN agency begins dropping tons of food from a cargo plane to help an estimated 700 000 people facing serious food shortages i

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Gordon Igesund, SA soccer coach who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Coach of the Decade, is born in Durban.

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The SA government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign. The date is given as 24 August 1988 in the following sources: Sout

This day in history

The SA government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign. The date is given as 24 August 1988 in the following sources: Sout

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The State President Dr. Nicolaas J. Diederichs dies of a heart attack in Cape Town. Following an earlier heart attack on 12 Aug

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Two boys, aged ten and fourteen, die near Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape, after picking up an explosive device they found while hunt

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Gill Marcus, manager of Spoornet, former deputy governor of the SA Reserve Bank and deputy minister of Finance (1996-1999), is

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City Press quotes a researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Mr Mark Swelling, as sa

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The SA rugby team wins the third test against Australia in Sydney 18-6 , thereby winning all the matches of the tour.

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An Anglo-French plan to give Italy economic concessions if they renounce their claims for Ethiopia are rejected by Italy during

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The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W

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The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W

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An electoral alliance is announced between the United Party (UP) and the National Union (NU) in Bloemfontein, in a form of a ni

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Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did a lot of research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris.

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Zola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

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Over 5,000 soldiers supported by tanks, armoured cars and air force units begin manoeuvres in an exercise code named Operation

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(Sidney) Robey Leibbrandt, SA Olympic boxer in 1936 who was later condemned to death (but reprieved) because of his Nazi sympat

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Thirty residents are killed in an attack on ANC dominated Umthambeka by The Toaster gang and hostel dwellers, allegedly in coll

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An ANC car bomb attack directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, takes place in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. One pers

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Science Magazine reveals in an article that dinosaur eggs, discovered in South Africa in 1978 during road works in the Golden G

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The UN Security Council authorises an urgent airlift of food and medicine for Somalia and demands the cooperation of warring fa

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The Alabama, American raider of the Southern states during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay to load provisions an

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A Portuguese attempt at an invasion against the Moors of Morocco is thwarted at the Battle of Alcazar-el-Kebir. King Sebastian

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A forty-eight-hour strike and a week of mass action starts to force an early transition to majority rule and effective measures

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SA signs treaty with the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the visit of the German nuclear-powered vessel Otto Hahn.

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The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.

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South African swimmer Penny Heyns wins gold again in the women’s 200m breaststroke final, after setting an Olympic record in he

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According to the SABS Metrication News of this date, ‘massmeter’ is now the correct name for scales and balances in SA.

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

Ben Turok is sentenced to three years imprisonment for attempting to cause an explosion in the centre of Johannesburg in Februa

A UN agency begins dropping tons of food from a cargo plane to help an estimated 700 000 people facing serious food shortages i

Gordon Igesund, SA soccer coach who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Coach of the Decade, is born in Durban.

The SA government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign. The date is given as 24 August 1988 in the following sources: Sout

The SA government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign. The date is given as 24 August 1988 in the following sources: Sout

The State President Dr. Nicolaas J. Diederichs dies of a heart attack in Cape Town. Following an earlier heart attack on 12 Aug

Two boys, aged ten and fourteen, die near Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape, after picking up an explosive device they found while hunt

Gill Marcus, manager of Spoornet, former deputy governor of the SA Reserve Bank and deputy minister of Finance (1996-1999), is

City Press quotes a researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Mr Mark Swelling, as sa

The SA rugby team wins the third test against Australia in Sydney 18-6 , thereby winning all the matches of the tour.

An Anglo-French plan to give Italy economic concessions if they renounce their claims for Ethiopia are rejected by Italy during

The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W

The Executive Council of the ZAR announces in an official document that W.H. Struben is considered the real discoverer of the W

An electoral alliance is announced between the United Party (UP) and the National Union (NU) in Bloemfontein, in a form of a ni

Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did a lot of research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris.

Zola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics

Over 5,000 soldiers supported by tanks, armoured cars and air force units begin manoeuvres in an exercise code named Operation

(Sidney) Robey Leibbrandt, SA Olympic boxer in 1936 who was later condemned to death (but reprieved) because of his Nazi sympat

Thirty residents are killed in an attack on ANC dominated Umthambeka by The Toaster gang and hostel dwellers, allegedly in coll

An ANC car bomb attack directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, takes place in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. One pers

Science Magazine reveals in an article that dinosaur eggs, discovered in South Africa in 1978 during road works in the Golden G

The UN Security Council authorises an urgent airlift of food and medicine for Somalia and demands the cooperation of warring fa

The Alabama, American raider of the Southern states during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay to load provisions an

A Portuguese attempt at an invasion against the Moors of Morocco is thwarted at the Battle of Alcazar-el-Kebir. King Sebastian

A forty-eight-hour strike and a week of mass action starts to force an early transition to majority rule and effective measures

SA signs treaty with the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the visit of the German nuclear-powered vessel Otto Hahn.

The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.

South African swimmer Penny Heyns wins gold again in the women’s 200m breaststroke final, after setting an Olympic record in he