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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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Todd Tozama Matshikiza, SA musician, composer and writer, dies in Lusaka, Zambia. He composed the music and wrote some of the l
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A ‘timeless’ cricket test match (the only one ever) between SA and England starts in Durban and continues until the 14th. E
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Jonathan Ayliff resigns because of ill health as minister of colonial affairs from the cabinet of Thomas Upington, but plays an
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French President Jacques Chirac visits Algeria in an effort to improve relations between the two countries. It is the first off
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Lucas Radebe, SA born soccer star, twists his right knee in a Champions League game against Real Madrid, barring him from playi
EventThe UN decides not to support the request of the Union of South Africa concerning the treatment of Indians in SA
During the second part of the first session of the United Nations General Assembly, the General Committee decided not to support the request of the Union of…
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Document 103 - Programme of the National Liberation League of S.A. as Revised and Adopted at First Congress, Cape Town, March 1937
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages spoken in South Africa. It is a derivative of the Dutch, language spoken by settlers who arrived in the Cape…
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WWII: The Second Battle of El Alamein, in which many SA soldiers took part, commences with a thousand-gun barrage. The opening
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Louise (Lulu) Latsky, SA author of children’s books and the first woman to be awarded a doctorate at the University of Stellenb
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Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation
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South Africa fails to meet an ultimatum by the International Olympic Committee to comply with its demand to renounce racial dis
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Jabulani Albert Ntuli, SA artist and illustrator of the Bantubibel in 1977, with Laduma Madela, is born in Eshowe district, Nat
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SA signs agreement with Portugal (for Angola and Mozambique) with regard to rivers of mutual interest and the Kunene River Sche
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An emergency session was convened by parliament on October 12, 1995, to approve legislation to permit local elections to be hel
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Free trade between SA and the European Union realises with the signing of the Trade, Development and Co-operation Agreement (TD
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A large crowd spends the night outside the Durban magistrate’s court in an all-night vigil for former deputy president Jacob Zu
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SA President Thabo Mbeki is publicly opposed to the provision of AIDS drugs in South Africa, arguing that they are dangerously
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US jet fighters force an Egyptian airliner carrying hijackers of cruise ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, where the hijacker
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Magdalena Gertruide (Magda) Sauer, first woman in SA to practise as a qualified architect and art critic of Die Burger, dies in
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Bheki Myeni, SA artist portraying his interest in insects in his sculpture, is born in Hlabisa, Natal. He is currently (1988) l
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SA signs multilateral treaty on the principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space. Al
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Habib Mohamed (A.M.) Rajab, trader who possessed the biggest collection of oriental art in SA, and remembered for his role in p
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