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Anna Louisa (Annie) Visser, SA singer who was one of the first singers to record Afrikaans songs, is born on the farm Lokshoek,
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 28-3 in the first test in Johannesburg. John Gainsford scores in the second half of the match
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The first 200 members of a West African peacekeeping force arrive in Liberia in an effort to stop more than two months of fight
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An event unique in the SAAF history takes place. The SAAF squadron that was placed at the disposal of the United Nations Organi
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Adolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, the last to be held for the next twelve years. SA also competed.
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Business Day reports that according to the UN joint agency on HIV/AIDS, UNAIDS, SA is home to 5,5-million people infected with
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The SA cricket team wins the second test against England on Lords with 10 wickets and leads 1-0 in the series after the first d
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Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of middle and lightweight SA titles in the 60’s and 70’s, is killed when his car strikes a
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Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of middle and lightweight SA titles in the 60’s and 70’s, is killed when his car strikes a
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Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Rubaina says his visit to South Africa will pave the way for an extended state visit by Cuban Pr
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The British Minister of State for Defence says that the ending of the Simonstown Agreements means an end to all the military co
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Being Indian, Being Mk: An Exploration Of The Experiences And Ethnic Identities Of Indian South African uMkhonto We Sizwe Members by Varsha Lalla
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”An Appeal to the Members of the Imperial Parliament and Public of Great Britain”. Petition from the South African Native National Congress, 1914
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The SA Springbok rugby team beats the Australian Wallabies 22-16 at Loftus in Pretoria, in the opening match of the Tri-nations
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The SA cricket team loses the fourth test against England on Trent Bridge with 8 wickets. One test remains to be played and bot
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The SA rugby team beats New Zealand 13-3 in the three-nations tournament. It is the 50th game between the two opponents.
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Somali truck driver Ali Ahmed Musa is taken hostage by an Iraqi militant group. He is freed unharmed at the beginning of August
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Raphael Ndukwe Chukwu, foreign football player who plays for SA and who was winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 97
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Mandla Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied at the Mofolo Arts Centre in Soweto and from 1984 to 1987
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Henry Allen Fagan, SA author, from whose poem President Mbeki quoted in his response on the occasion of the budget vote of the
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SA quits the UN General Assembly and its committees for the rest of the 10th session after the Assembly adopts a resolution exp
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Swimmer Penny Heyns of SA sets four world records in just two days in the 100m and 200m breaststroke in South California, USA.
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President Kaunda of Zambia says that an eight million Pound Sterling air base is being built by South Africa in the Caprivi Str
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News 24 reports that South Africa will foot an R11.2m bill to upgrade a monument in Mbuzini, south of Komatipoort, at the site
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SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the release from the bound margin of preference of ten percent ad valorem on certain pres
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The Government banns all public meetings of more than twelve persons until June 30 in an effort to disrupt the wave of protests
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Angola releases the bodies of two SA Defence Force commandos killed in a raid on Cabinda oil depots in 1985, and the SADF repat
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A prison warder, Jacques Horne, 31, on escort duty is shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town’s Groot
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President Teodoro Obiang Nguema thanks SA and Angola for warning him of the plot to overthrow his government and says it was fu
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