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… Reigning champion France is beaten 1-0 by Senegal in the opening game of football’s World Cup in South Korea. …

… General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Algiers formally recognises the Algerian juntas. …

… Pierre Mendés-France resigns from the French Cabinet in disgust over the current crackdown in Algeria. …

… Zulu royal household, Prince Thulani Zulu, is shot dead in Nongoma in northern KwaZulu-Natal. …

… The bodies of two Swedish tourists are discovered in their luxury holiday flat in Umhlanga Rocks, KwaZulu-Natal. …

… kill nine United Nations Bangladeshi peacekeepers in Ituri, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in the worst attac …

… Gastrow: Who's Who in South African Politics … appointed as General Secretary of the Mineworkers’ Union in 1967, is born in Pretoria. …

… Dr. Allan Boesak and the journalist Elna Botha is married in the St. Stephens church in Cape Town. …

… The first gold (61 ounces) is sent from Kromdraai in the Witwatersrand to the Standard Bank in Pretoria. …

… A bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures seventy-six …

… Nine people are hurt in an explosion in front of the Cape-Central police offices (previously …

… Chad breaks links to Libya in protest to their support of Muslim guerrillas currently fighting in northern Chad. …

… Six men suffocate in Vereeniging after being locked up by robbers in the airtight compartment of a meat truck. …

… Judge Jacob de Villiers, judge of the Appeal Court in South Africa, dies in Somerset West, Western Cape. …

… member of Stander’s bank robber gang, is killed by police in Stander’s hideout in Houghton, Johannesburg. …

… The Katanga Company is formed in Brussels to exploit copper deposits in the Katanga area of Central Africa. …

… Following the discovery of coelacanths in Jesser Canyon off Sodwana Bay, Kwazulu-Natal, in October 2000, the multidisciplinary …

… In a by-election in Westdene, Johannesburg, ‘Pik’ Botha as National Party …

… Kotzé de Klerk, missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ceylon, is born in Garies, Namaqualand. …

… Following the discovery of coelacanths in Jesser Canyon off Sodwana Bay, Kwazulu-Natal, in October 2000, the multidisciplinary …

… Mercia Marie Isaacs, businesswoman, winner in category Medium Corporate/Medium Business Owner/NGO Lebone Woman’s Award in 1998 …

… The first congregation of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Transvaal is instituted in Potchefstroom.   The Rev. Daniel Lind …

… John Christoffel Kannemeyer, expert in Afrikaans literature and author of several biographies of Afrikaans writers, is born in …

… Kotzé de Klerk, missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ceylon, is born in Garies, Namaqualand. …

… (21) is found hanging from an electric wire tied to a bar in his cell in Alice. …

… Gastrow: Who's Who in South African Politics … Hendrik Jacobus Coetzee (Kobie), Minister of Justice in the previous government, is born in Ladybrand, Orange Free State. …

… The South African Police Force stationed in the Caprivi Strip, bordering Zambia, suffer casualties in clashes with ‘terrorists’ …

… civil servant, scholar and the father of historical study in Natal, is born in Rondebosch, Cape.   …

… J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood … story which, through the experience of a mentally disabled black man, traces the tensions of a ravaged country, and … of times past to explore the perpetual Boer-English, white-black conflicts. Its sequel, Youth, has the writer clinically …

… groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape), as the third … 1999. She then pursued her Masters; her thesis topic was Black Afrikaans women writers: the joy and frustration of the … stories on fathers and daughters – a project by White and Black women – an Afrikaans collection of poetry, Ons …