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Samuel Tshabalala wins the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades, the first Black person to win the race since the ban on their part
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Dr. John Godlonton on own initiative starts the Comrades Medical facility in a small tent next to the route. (Dr. Jeremy Boulte
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Dr. John Godlonton on own initiative starts the Comrades Medical facility in a small tent next to the route. (Dr. Jeremy Boulte
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The Law on National Parks is passed and the name of Sabie Game Reserve is changed to the Kruger National Park.
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Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, announces that the attorney-general of the Transvaal is to prosecute thirty of the 357 people
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The Transkei Minister of Justice orders the Methodist Church of South Africa to cease all activities, and cede its property wit
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A joint statement is issued, agreed to by Dr. Verwoerd, Victorio Carpio, Dr. de Alva and the Foreign minister, Eric Louw, indic
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Memorandum, On Behalf Of The South African Indian Congress, To The United Nations Group Of Experts On South Africa, March 6, 1964
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Hutu refugees flee the refugee camp at Kibeho, Zaire, after soldiers gun down thousands or are trampled to death in stampedes.
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Rijkloff van Goens leaves Table Bay after a stay of one month to report on what has been accomplished at the Cape.
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Haile Gebrselassie, long distance Ethiopian athlete and the first to run the 5 000 m in less than thirteen minutes and the 10 0
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Bessie Amelia Head, SA novelist, short story writer and social historian dies in Serowe, Botswana. She had gone to Botswana in
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Special Offences Act No 6 commences, making it an offence to possess a tyre or similar object, or any inflammable liquid, in ci
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A special committee of the United Nations accepts an invitation by South Africa to send two of its members, Dr Victorio Carpio
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Sir Robert Nelson Kotzé, mining engineer who did much to promote safety in mines and who became vice-chancellor of the U
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Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai
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Kamuzu Banda of Malawi, Africa’s longest ruling dictator with thirty years at the helm, concedes defeat to Bakili Muluzi in the
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The UN ban on Rhodesian import and export, introduced on 16 December 1966, is expanded to include all trade with Rhodesia.
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About 5 000 people gather on the Parade in Cape town to protest against the decision of Lord Grey, British colonial minister, t
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Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan
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The expedition under August F. Beutler, which left the Cape at the end of February, reaches Boesmans River according to his jou
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Dr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are already infected with th
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Rwandan rebels seize the key government army barracks in Kigali, removing the biggest obstacle in their drive to capture the ca
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Rwandan rebels seize the key government army barracks in Kigali, removing the biggest obstacle in their drive to capture the ca
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In a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament it is unanimously agreed to re-entrench the language rights in the constitution
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According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the
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Troops loyal to Congo’s new president, Laurent Kabila, break up protests in Kinshasa just a week after his forces enter the cap
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President Nelson Mandela opens his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town by quoting from Ingrid Jonker’s poem
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Dr Victorio Carpio of the Philippines falls ill after his visit, together with Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, to the Transkei.
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