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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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Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Fanie) Eloff (62), first notable sculptor born in SA and grandson of Paul Kruger, is born in Pretori
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The Mozambique government and RENAMO rebel leaders sign an historic peace accord, and a cease-fire to end the sixteen-year civi
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Basil D’Oliviera, English cricket player who was denied entry into SA because he was a Coloured, is born in Cape Town.
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SA signs agreements with the government of the US on missile-related export/import restrictions and with the UN Development Pro
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According to the SABS Metrication News of this date, ‘massmeter’ is now the correct name for scales and balances in SA.
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Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, is born in Well
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Eight Black South Africans walk out of a New York conference on SA in protest against Pretoria’s refusal to issue passports to
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