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Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata is arrested for drunk driving after he drove into a wall north of Johannesburg. He resis
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Louis Buys, chief director of disaster management at the department of provincial and local government, says the South African
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The cricket team of South Africa suffers an innings defeat in the second test against Australia in Sydney. Shane Warne take
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Mass celebration takes place in the streets of Lilongwe, Malawi, following the arrest of former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda
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Allan Boesak, charged with financial impropriety, agrees not to take up the post of Ambassador to the United Nations.
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The Swedish Government announces that it will give financial aid totalling about 110 million Rand to the ANC and other organisa
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SA signs air service agreement with the Republic of Malaysia.
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The ANC agrees to close its military training base in Angola and in return South Africa must stop aid to the rebel Angolan UNIT
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The planning and programming divisional manager of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Mr Danie Schoeman, says that
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Senator Edward Kennedy pays an eight-day visit to South Africa.
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The forty-five mercenaries alleged to have commandeered an Air India Boeing and forced it to fly to Durban, after attempting a
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Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament.
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The Meadowlands Tswana School Board meets with the local inspector of the Bantu Education Department to discuss the conflict th
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The SABC starts regular daily TV transmissions after trial transmissions during 1975.
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The British Foreign Minister, James Callaghan, arrives in Port Elizabeth for a three-hour meeting with Prime Minister John Vors
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The Van Riebeeck festival, commemorating the settlement of Whites in South Africa 300 years ago, is officially opened by dr D.F
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WW2: Bardia, Libya, falls to a British assault 25 000 Italian troops, including six generals, are captured.
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Lawrence George Green, author of numerous travel books, is born in Kimberley. Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of South
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The first recorded cricket match in South Africa takes place between two defence force teams in Cape Town.
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Former State President Marais Viljoen, the country’s last ceremonial state president (1979-1984) dies as a result of heart fa
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Daniel arap Moi is again re-elected as president of Kenya.
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Daniel Torotich arap Moi is sworn in as Kenyan president for another term.
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Dr Danie Craven (Mr Rugby) dies at his home in Stellenbosch at the age of 82.
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Twenty-seven ANC supporters are killed in a large-scale attack on Emagcino area, Umgababa, Natal South Coast.
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Labour Party leader the Rev. Allan Hendrickse and150 supporters take to the waves off a ‘Whites only’ beach at Port Elizabeth.
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The (Coloured) Labour Party opts for an election for the eighty representatives to the Coloured House of Representatives, witho
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At its annual conference in Eshowe, Natal, the Labour Party overwhelmingly adopts a resolution stating that it seeks to represe
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The leader of the United Party in the Transvaal, Harry Swartz, signs a five-point ‘declaration of faith’ with Chief Gatsha Buth
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Ifni province is returned to Morocco by Spain.
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