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The General Assembly of the UN adopts a resolution, initiated by SA, on ‘The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict’ by consensu
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Six South Africans and three Lesotho nationals are killed in an attack for which the renegade Lesotho Liberation Army claims re
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Fikile Magadledla, SA artist, co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, illustrator of several books and writer of poetry to ac
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Balthazar Johannes (John) Vorster, premier (1966-1978) and state president (1978-1979) of SA, is born in the district of Jamest
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The Mozambique Convention, an agreement between the ZAR and Portugal, paves the way for the construction of the Delagoa Bay rai
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In an open letter to the government, financial services group PSG comes out in support of First National Bank’s (FNB) aborted c
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South Africa’s White parliament, sitting probably for the last time, buries apartheid, voting 237 to 45 to adopt an interim con
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South Africa signs an accord granting independence to South-West Africa. Angola, Cuba, and South Africa end eight months of ne
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The first test match between SA and Pakistan starts a day late after the alleged mugging of two Pakistani players in Sandton.
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Seventy-six people are injured in an explosion at the offices of the Administration Board of the Free State in Bloemfontein.
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The Dutch East India Company issues an order that the statutes of India are to be followed strictly in the Cape.
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SA Protea captain Graeme Smith scores his second hundred in three matches and Justin Kemp hammers a spectacular 80 off 50 balls
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South Africa signs an agreement with the government of the Republic of Poland on the abolition of visa requirements for holders
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The results of an informal poll amongst White sportsmen show that of 101 sportsmen questioned, seventy-nine were in favour of m
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Group A game versus Angola 1-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesbu
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Kassala, on the Sudan-Eritrean border, is retaken by the British as Major General William Platt begins an offensive against Ita
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In the first incident to hint that grave trouble was looming in Natal, culminating in the Bambatha rebellion, Henry Smith, an U
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Group A game versus Cameroon 3-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannes
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Vincent Baloyi, SA artist, is born in Newclare, Johannesburg. He joined the National Arts Society and the SAAA, taught art at t
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The National Party launches a ‘core values’ document in Pretoria. On the same day it is reported that the Provincial Affairs an
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Semi-finals versus Ghana 3-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg
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An Avro York aircraft, en route from Johannesburg to London, lands in Nairobi, Kenya, after the machine was damaged when a swar
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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in
EventThe Pretoria Supreme Court orders for an inquiry into the doctors' treatment of Steve Biko at the time of his death
The Pretoria Supreme Court ordered the South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) to hold an inquiry into the conduct of the two doctors who treated…
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An estimated 500 people suspected of being rebels have been executed by Congo government forces in Stanleyville in six weeks si
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ANC president Oliver Tambo, in a speech in Lusaka, rules out negotiations with the SA government and declares 1987 to be “the y
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The Battle of Wagon Hill (Platrand), south of Ladysmith, takes place, in which the Boer forces make an unsuccessful attempt to
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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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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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