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Natal Indian Congress (NIC) meets in an emergency session in Durban and decides on a hartal on 13 June, which was designated &q
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Dr. Renfrew Christie, an academic and former student leader at the University of Cape Town, is sentenced to ten years imprisonm
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Duke Ketye, SA artist, is born in Orlando East, Soweto. After matriculation he studied art with Sister Pientia Selhorst and Sis
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An expedition of seventy-one under August F. Beutler leaves the Castle at the Cape with eleven wagons and thirty-seven soldiers
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses against Egypt in the final game of the Africa Nations Cup in Burkina Faso.
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In an attack described by Mukesh Kapila, top official of the UN in Sudan, government-allied militia (known as Janjawiet), rape
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Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo
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SA signs agreement with the government of Namibia relating to the promotion of co-operation in the field of administration of j
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Seven Africans are detained in the Transkei on an allegation of conspiracy to commit murder. Five are opposition members of the
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Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,
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South Africa signs an agreement with Hungary on co-operation in the areas of culture, education, science and related fields and
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President Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana vows that the country would never be reunified with SA, because it has not become ind
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The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to
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The government of South Africa and the African National Congress announce an agreement on terms of the ANC’s decision to suspen
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Jacobus Hendrik Hatting, fighter at the battle of Blood River and author of an early history of the Voortrekkers, is born.
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South Africa signs an agreement with Namibia relating to defence and civil aviation in Walvis Bay and signs a bilateral air ser
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Twelve ANC supporters are killed in an IFP attack on houses and hostels in Esikhaweni, Natal North Coast, allegedly assisted by
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Mr Edmond Perret, general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) arrives in SA as head of a delegation of
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Two pilots of SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron, assisting the United Nations in the Korean War, blast a convoy of
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The Minister of Water Affairs announces an ambitious scheme to harness the Orange River for power and irrigation at a cost of R
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Responding to the British Labour government’s re-imposition of an embargo on arms sales to South Africa, John Vorster tells Bri
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Makhaya Ntini becomes the first Black SA cricket player to play in a five-day test. He takes 2 wickets in Cape Town.
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Thomas Thornton becomes the first air passenger in SA when he pays Albert Kimmerling £100 for a short flight from Sydenham Hil
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Tertius Bosch, SA cricket player in one test match against the West Indies (1991-1992), is born in Vereeniging. (Wallis; Nuusda
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An earth tremor measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale strikes South Africa with its epicentre believed to be at the Hartebeesfonte
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Maropoli Mapalakanye, an organiser for MWASA, is reported missing. No reply is received from the minister of law and order to a
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SA sends troops to Ciskei to suppress mob attacks on factories and shops after military coup under Brigadier Gqozo ousted autho
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Four senior newspaper editors are found guilty on between one and three counts under the 1982 Protection of Information Act, an
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In the British House of Commons the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Select Committee on Expenditure proposes an inquiry
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