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Adelaide Tambo, wife of ANC president Oliver Tambo, arrives in SA after thirty years abroad, to re-establish the ANC Women’s Le
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The Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, to which SA is a party, is signed i
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About half of the filling stations in urban SA run dry because of a country wide strike of workers in the chemical industry.
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Dr. Motlana, on behalf of the ‘Committee of 10’, repeats the call for non-ethnic elections for an autonomous Soweto city counci
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The Supreme Court of Appeal refuses to allow the Western Cape education MEC to compel an Afrikaans-medium school, Mikro, in Kui
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Josephus Suasso de Lima, editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, De Verzamelaar, is born in Amsterdam, the Net
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The rugby match between SA and France ends in a tie with 20 each. It is François Pienaar’s first match as Springbok captain.
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Sisulu makes the first broadcast on “Radio Freedom” from a secret hideout in SA. He urges the youth to join forces and continue
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Allan Lewis (66), first official SA war artist and portrait painter of Sir Winston Churchill and Gen. J.C. Smuts, dies in Stell
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National Day of Protest and Mourning. The first national political strike called by the ANC as an act of national mourning and
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Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org
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The SA rugby team, with François Pienaar as captain, wins the World Cup final match against New Zealand 15-12. Joel Stransky
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A service in Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral marks the retirement of the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu as Archbishop of Cape Town an
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The match between the SA rugby team and the British Lions ends in a tie, with both sides scoring 6 points in Port Elizabeth.
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The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers. Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb
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Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
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Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in District 6 in Cape Town. While incarcerated on Robben Island as a political prisoner between 1964 and 1971, he completed…
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At the final poetry performance at the Urban Voices festival, SA poet Don Mattera, widely known as Bra Zinga, announces his wit
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The Namibian soccer team beats the SA Bafana Bafana 4-1 in Windhoek, thereby entering the semi-final round of the Cosafa Cup Se
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The Namibian soccer team beats the SA Bafana Bafana 4-1 in Windhoek, thereby entering the semi-final round of the Cosafa Cup Se
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News 24 reports that the worst fires in SA history wrecked havoc in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal during the past weekend. Fires
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The Sowetan reports that the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela was burned down allegedly by a group of school children, after an at
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Edward Motale, SA soccer player who was awarded the accolade, ‘Footballer of the Season 95’ by Kick Off, is born in Pretoria. (
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Judge Faan Hancke finds Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez guilty of the murders on two soldiers in an apparent rightwing-in
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An Egyptian munitions ship, Star of Alexandria, explodes at the dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 are injured, and $20 mi
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The ANC, in an emergency meeting, calls for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Magnus Ma
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Twenty-four people die in Sebokeng after attacks by armed impis leaving an Inkatha rally in the township. Coleman gives the num
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SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
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Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, an Osama bin Laden follower, is sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing
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