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… Two brothers are sentenced to death in Cairo, Egypt, after an attack on a bus in the city, killing nine Germans and one Egyptia …

… leader who was honoured with the Award of Merit from TUCSA in 1964, is born in Grea …

… In the United Nations Security Council ‘Pik’ Botha says that South Africa will do everything in its power to move away from dis …

… Liam Aspeling is snatched from a car by a gang of five in front of his home in Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg. T …

… Convention, chaired by Lord Henry de Villiers, Justice in Chief of the Cape, meets for the first time in Durban to …

… Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at Brenner Pass in the Alps, where the Nazi leader seeks Italy’s help in fighting the Br …

… The St George’s Anglican Church in Knysna, the first to be built in the town and now a national monument, is consecrated by Bis …

… The St George’s Anglican Church in Knysna, the first to be built in the town and now a national monument, is consecrated by Bis …

… of Ethiopia (1930-74), is born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of Ejersa Goro in the Harar provin …

… The SA rugby team beats Australia 11-0 in Port Elizabeth to lead 3-1 in the series, with the last test still to be played. …

… Nelson Mukhuba, SA artist, is born in Venda.   His art career started in 1958 and he used mainly marula and jacaranda for woo …

… the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field is signe …

… The Castillo de Bellver spills 250 000 ton of oil in the sea at Cape Town after it caught fire in Saldana Bay. …

… rugby team beats the Australian Wallabies 22-16 at Loftus in Pretoria, in the opening match of the Tri-nations …

… 200 members of a West African peacekeeping force arrive in Liberia in an effort to stop more than two months of fight …

… In the Athens Paralympic Games Natalie du Toit wins her fifth gold medal, the 50m freestyle, in a world record 29.52sec, after …

… Wessels, author and founder of the Toyota motor company in SA, is born in the district of Boshof, OFS.  …

… Louis Thibault, SA architect of several well-known houses in the western Cape and also the Lutheran Church in Cape Town, is bor …

… SA rugby team beats the British Isles for the first time in a rugby test series by winning the third test in Newlands 8-0. …

… Mobutu Sese Seko (66), former president of Zaire, dies in exile in Rabat, Morocco, three months after the end of his nearly 32 …

… In one of the worst winter storms ever, eighteen ships are wrecked in Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, and fifty-eight lives are lost …

… A delegation of four members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, led by Dr Nico Smith, talks with the ANC in Lusaka, Zambia …

… The Reza Shah Museum, in honour of Reza Shah Pahlevi, housed in the Johannesburg house where he lived from 1942-1944, is …

… A bomb explodes in the elevator of the building in the centre of Cape Town, which houses the President’s …

… The Allied Forces land on the beach of Normandy in the largest sea and air operation in the military history of the world. …

… Sithembele Zokwe, detained in terms of the Transkei Public Security Act of 1977, is shot dead at his home in Nqamakwe by police …

… The Rev. Hendrik Willem Ballot (47), parson in Tulbach, dies and is buried in front of the pulpit of the Dutch Reformed Church. …

… Mandla Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied at the Mofolo Arts Centre in Soweto and from 1984 to 1987 …

… deputy president Jacob Zuma appears for the first time in court on two charges of corruption in Durban.  It is the star …

… Johanna Duminy, writer of the well-known Duminy journal in which she gives a vivid description of life at the Cape, is born in …