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Building starts on the Suez Canal under the engineer and designer Ferdinand de Lisseps (or Lesseps).
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Building starts on the Suez Canal under the engineer and designer Ferdinand de Lisseps (or Lesseps).
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The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church merge to form the United Methodist Church.
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President F.W. de Klerk and two senior ministers receive a delegation representing the Anglican, Congregational, Lutheran, Meth
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Representatives from twenty-six South African political parties and organisations resume multiparty negotiations marking the st
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Representatives from twenty-six South African political parties and organisations resume multiparty negotiations marking the st
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About seventy delegates representing a broad spectrum of faculty, religious and social organisations on eight university campus
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The British government publishes in Trade and Industry, guidelines for British companies operating in South Africa.
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Beauclerk Upington, advocate, politician, yachtsman and president of the South African Football (Soccer) Association (1913-22),
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Multilateral agreement between the governments of Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland amending the Trilateral Monetary Agreemen
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Eddie Dunn, SA ambassador in El Salvador, is kidnapped and later murdered by a leftist terrorist group.
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A former member of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s entourage testifies before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak frees thirty-one journalists and political figures, including five former Cabinet officials, w
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Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg.
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Constance Magogo Sibilile Mantithi Ngangezinye Thombisile Ka Dinuzulu (Princess Constance), daughter of Zulu King Dinuzulu and
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Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, SA painter and mother of actress Jana Celliers, is born in Rustenburg, Tvl.
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Adriaan Johannes Begemann, clergyman, librarian and first permanent minister of the Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk in Pretoria, d
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The test between the SA rugby team and England in London ends in a tie with 3 each.
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Dr D.F. Malan retires as prime minister, and withdraws from politics. Adv. J.G. Strijdom succeeds him.
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Archaeologists of Egypt and the US discover a fleet of ships 500 years old near the Nile.
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Ten people are killed in two attacks on homes of IFP supporting Lushaba and Cele families.
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Convicted robber and “people’s poet”, appears in the Johannesburg magistrate’s court for allegedly assaulting his wife
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President Sam Nujoma and his governing party are declared winners of Namibia’s first post-independence election.
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The first edition of Standpunte, mouthpiece of Afrikaans poets in the ‘30s and ‘40s, is published.
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The first railway line between two towns in SA, Cape Town and Wellington is officially opened.
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Tulani Eric Nkosi and friend Elias Kunene, ANC, are gunned down in Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal.
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SA signs an air transport agreement with Lesotho for services between and beyond their respective territories.
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Drunken British soldiers desecrate and destroy the “Taalmonument” in Burgersdorp, erected to commemorate legislation passed in
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