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Rugby world champion England beats Tri-Nations kings South Africa 32-16 at Twickenham to record its sixth successive victory.
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The British parliament adopts the Balfour Declaration signed by delegates the previous day. This paves the way to self-govern
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The BBC reports an animal airlift is planned for the Congo. The airlift will take chimpanzees to Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage
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The three Zimbabwean intelligence officers standing trial for a bomb attack on an ANC house in Bulawayo are sentenced to death.
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The United Nations urges Rwanda to co-operate with an international tribunal, after the release of genocide suspect Jean-Bosco
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Harold Wilson, the British Prime Minister, announces in the House of Commons that the British government has decided to impose
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Pretoria is officially selected as the capital of the ZAR. The seat of government was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretori
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SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death. The sentence was later
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Elections to the country’s twenty-nine new Black local authorities, over the previous ten days, are met with demonstrations and
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The Minister of Defence, P.W. Botha, announces a reshuffle of senior defence force posts to increase the efficiency of the coun
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The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopt terms for a truce to end a conflict killing an estimated 1,0
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Anti-apartheid demonstrations continue in front of the South African Embassy in Washington and spread to other US cities where
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The Security Council, in resolution 182(1963), calls upon all States "to cease forthwith the sale and shipment of equipmen
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Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse residents of Ganyesa, north of Vryburg in North-West province. Residents were
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General Holomisa announces that he is abandoning a Supreme Court action aimed at forcing the ANC to reinstate him as a member a
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Up to 1 000 delegates from SA and overseas meet for the Pan-Africanist Congress’s first national conference inside the cou
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State President Vorster opens the first emergency session of Parliament to be held in peacetime and promises action against any
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The Star reports that a Group Areas Bill, which sought to increase drastically the penalties for contravention of the Group Are
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Britain grants self-government to the Transvaal Colony in South Africa. Several sources state that the Orange River Colony was
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The Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by
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A cabinet minister restates the government’s policy for the Coloured people. Any policy, or lack thereof, which can lead to int
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The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling (as amended), to which SA is a party, is signed in Washington, USA.
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The British government officially abolishes slavery in the Cape Colony, but the slaves are apprenticed for four years to their
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The United Nations announces that South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will head a UN fact-finding mission to Gaza’s Beit
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Schalk Burger, flank forward AJ Venter, centre Gcobani Bobo and uncapped winger, Jongikhaya Nokwe are released to play for the
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Nigeria’s deputy head of state, Lieut. Gen. Oladipo Diya, and eleven others are arrested and accused of plotting to overthrow G
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A three-month campaign to register Coloured voters ends with only approximately half of the total of 700,000 qualified voters r
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The General Assembly terminated the mandate of the Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petrol
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The United Nations (UN) General Assembly appoints Kofi Annan of Ghana to a five-year term as secretary-general, beginning 1 Jan
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