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Willem Postma (Dr O’Kullis), writer, teacher and minister of the Reformed Church, is born in Burgersdorp, CC.
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The Church of the Vow in Pietermaritzburg is consecrated and Erasmus Smit is inducted as its first minister.
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Between 30% and 45% of all agricultural workers are infected with HIV/Aids, Gretha Kostwinder, the agricultural attaché
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Struggle hero Dullah Omar and SA transport minister dies in the Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in the Western Cape.
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Finance Minister Liebenberg presents the 1996-97 Budget, reports continuing economic growth and underlines his aim of building
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Sen. François S. Malan, editor of Die Patriot and founder of the FAK, is born at Bovlei near Wellington.
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Outspoken Kenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia (82), a friend and later rival of the country’s founding president Jomo Kenyat
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Mozambique’s former president Joaquim Chissano, who steered his country for eighteen years after helping end a long and brutal
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Zimbabwe seizes a US-registered cargo plane carrying sixty-four suspected mercenaries and military equipment. Simon Mann, of th
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The Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, Dr Albert Hertzog, confirms that the government’s policy regarding television is unchange
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South Africa signs a multilateral declaration on the provisional accession of Iceland to the General Agreement on Tariffs and T
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President Mandela visits Togo for a few hours. He and Togolese President Eyadema review the situation in West Africa.
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Dr. Basil Moore, Johannesburg Methodist Minister, staff member of the Christian Institute and acting Secretary of the Universit
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National Police Commissioner George Fivaz announces plans to restructure the South African Police Service (SAPS) and later seek
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Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, politician and former leader of the Progressive Federal Party, is born in Pretoria.
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A bus service replaces the train commuter service between Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, and the Pretoria city centre. Commut
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The National Party manifesto reaffirms its belief in separate development programmes for the White, Black, Coloured and Indian
EventGary Player won the US Open golf tournament and became the fourth winner to earn all four top
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The fifth Frontier War: Sangoma Makana attacks Grahamstown under the patronage of Xhosa Chief Ndlambe, and is defeated
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Apartheid and the Removal of Black Spots from Lake Bhangazi in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa by Bradley Skelcher
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Why Did it happen? Religious and lay Explanations of the spanish flue epidemic of 1918 in South Africa
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APDUSA Views Issue No. 63: Culture Misused to Taunt and Torment - Another Steve Mabona Episode, 14 August 2002
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George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, dies in Cape Town.
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James Henry Bowker (78), SA soldier during the frontier wars and expedition leader to Basutoland, dies in Durban.
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Aliens and Travellers Control Amendment Act No 16, regulating the control of travellers during states of emergency, commences.
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The United States, the Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany and Belgium all start recalling their Ambassadors for consultat
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Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia, businessman, community leader and staunch opponent of the Asiatic Registration Act, born in poverty in
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Charlotte Lange disappears after being picked up from her home by eight Whites and one Black in a combi.
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The Prime Minister holds discussions on constitutional developments with the chairman and other members of the Coloured Persons
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