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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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(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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SA signs a protocol of intent on military cooperation between the Ministry of Defence of South Africa and the Ministry of Defen
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Omar Badsha, SA photographer, trade unionist and political activist, is born in Durban. He is currently head of the Non Governm
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Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of the middle and light-heavyweight SA titles, is born in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was
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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight
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Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso, SA artist, is born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso st
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Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso, SA artist, is born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso st
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Dumisani Abraham Mabaso, SA artist, is born in Soweto. From childhood until 1974 he received art education at the YWCA (Young
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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, State President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei, one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.
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Parliament meets in an Extraordinary Session at the request of the leader of the Opposition, Colin Eglin. The resignation of th
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The ANC begins an open-ended campaign of public protest with a day of rallies, work stoppages and threats of a crippling genera
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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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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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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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SA signs treaty with the Perishable Products Export Control Board for the ocean conveyance of goods between South Africa and Eu
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Florence Nightingale, doyen of the modern nursing profession, also in SA, opens the first school for nurses at the St. Thomas h
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Lord Salisbury negotiates an Anglo-French agreement on West Africa and ends the Niger crisis. It defines the border between Nig
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Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the
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The SA rugby team loses the second test against the British Lions 15-18, after having lost the first one too.
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The minister of mines announces that SA scientists under Drs A.J.A. Roux and W.L. Grant have developed a new method to enrich u
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