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The SA cricket team beats the West Indies with nine wickets in Durban to lead 3-0 in the series of five.
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President Daniel Torotich arap Moi wins the first multi-party elections held in Kenya for twenty-six years. All foreign observe
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Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his wife Ruth Gerhardt, are sentenced to
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Winnie Mandela is banned for a further five years and continues to be restricted to the small town of Brandfort.
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Justice Coetzee in the Rand Supreme Court refuses to lift an order barring resumption of publication of four Black newspapers.
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Rev. Allan Hendrickse is elected leader of the Coloured Labour Party of South Africa at its thirteenth Congress in Bloemfontein
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Mathilda Hanekom, SA actress and wife of Hendrik Hanekom, dies.
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Police announce the release of the last of the 113 detainees held under Section 10 (preventive detention) of the Internal Secur
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The Minister of Bantu Education announces moves towards the introduction of free and compulsory education for Blacks. This is t
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The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, to which SA is a party, is signed i
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The SA flag is hoisted on Marion Island after an agreement with Britain.
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Tombs of the third dynasty Egyptian kings are excavated at Ur.
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The first private broadcasting station in South Africa is put up by the South African Railways in Johannesburg. The Scientific
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Dricky Beukes, SA novel writer, is born.
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Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus, trade unionist and unselfish fighter for the underprivileged, is born in Vredefort, OFS.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Helvetia near Machadodorp takes place, with the British under Major Cotton surrendering to Gene
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Leander Starr Jameson crosses the border into Transvaal, leading about five hundred hand-picked policemen of the Chartered Comp
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Commandant Andreas Theodorus Spies, founder of the short-lived Klip River Republic and Utrecht Republic, dies.
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Adolf Stephan Fredrich Jentsch, Namibian landscape painter, is born in Dresden, Germany.
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Landdros Anders Stockenström (father of Sir Andries Stockenström), seven or eight burghers and an interpreter are att
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Judge Pierre Rabie (80), chief justice of SA, dies.
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Molly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner widely respected by Blacks, is killed in a car accident near Hu
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It is announced that Colonel Hoare, the leader of the attempted Seychelles coup, will shortly be eligible for release from pris
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Cease-fire in Zimbabwe.
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Sidney Goldblatt (60), SA painter, dies.
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The Lesotho government announces it will deport eight South Africans, whom it describes as a danger to peace.
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Siza Khang Cecil Khampepe, financier and managing director of Khayalethu Home-loans, is born in Johannesburg. He is director of
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Egyptian premier, Mahmoud Fatimy, is assassinated by a member of (the Muslim Brotherhood).
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Oscar Dumisani Dhlomo, politician and businessman, is born in Umbumbulu, Natal.
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