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The United Nations General Assembly passes a draft Resolution, by eighty-seven votes to one (Portugal) and twelve abstentions,
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Balthasar Johannes (John) Vorster, former prime minister and president of SA, marries Martinie Steyn Malan in Worcester, CP.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Kitchener memorandum concerning the implementation of concentration camps for Boer women and children is
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Marthinus Cornelius (oom Tienie) van Schoor, electrical engineer, inventor of the single-line train control system and cultural
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Hercules George Robert Robinson, South African high commissioner and governor (1880-89, 1895-97), is born in Ireland.
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The Steering Committee of CODESA reach an agreement whereby all parties will commit themselves "politically and morally&qu
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The General Assembly strongly disapproves SA policy of Apartheid and requests the Secretary-General to establish a United Natio
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Prof. Benedictus Kok, rector (1967) and chancellor (1976) of the University of the Orange Free State, is born.
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The General Assembly, at its sixteenth Special Session, adopts by consensus the "Declaration on Apartheid and its Destruct
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Carl Gottlieb Büttner (44), Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, dies in Berlin, German
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Joseph Mogotsi, a teacher, dies in Pretoria after his car was forced off the road and he was assaulted.
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Mofasi H. Lekota, managing director of Equal Access Consulting and chair of Seshego Investments is born in Pietersburg (Polokwa
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SA signs memorandum of agreement regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the international border bridge over the
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Walter Sisulu addresses an African National Congress meeting in Durban and gives a comprehensive account of his travel through
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, H. Muller, defines the government’s policy of ending discrimination inside South Africa and of
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Barend Jacobus (Ben) Erasmus, trade unionist and founder member of the Johannesburg Municipal Sports Club, dies in Johannesburg
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Daniël Petrus Goosen, secretary for the Academy of Science and Art, is born in Schweizer-Reneke, western Transvaal.
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An Israeli fighter pilot shoots down a Libyan aircraft over the Sinai Desert. Seventy-four passengers and crewmembers die.
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The Rev. D. Wilcocks, lecturer at the Wellington Missionary Institute and clergyman in various places in SA, is born.
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SA signs agreement with Namibia regarding standards of livestock breeding and the importation of breeding animals, semen, ova o
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A delegation from Mauritius arrives in Cape Town to discuss ways of strengthening links between Mauritius and South Africa.
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A new department of the T.U.C. (Transvaal University College, situated in Johannesburg), consisting of the arts and science cou
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After two days of fighting between Islamic fundamentalists and security forces in Algeria, a state of emergency is declared.
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France and Germany reach agreement over Morocco, with Germany recognising French special interests there in return for economic
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In a communiqué issued today, the African Union’s peace and security council lays out the responsibilities of a peace mi
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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Angola ends in a tie with no goals scored.
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Freedom Front leader General Constand Viljoen has announced he will seek amnesty before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Winnington Sabelo, IFP Central Committee member and KwaZulu MP, is gunned down at his shop in Umlazi, Natal.
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Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician and member of parliament, dies at Fairfield, Caledon district, Western Cape.
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