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Political assassination: Sam Ntuli (31), general secretary of CAST, chair of Thokoza Civic Association and ANC member, is shot

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Sam Ramsamy, president of the (NOCSA), announced South Africa’s acceptance of an invitation to participate in the Olympic Game

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Tristam Burrell, one of the SA’s most-experienced paragliders, is electrocuted when his powered trike hits powerlines. His pass

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Sam Ramsamy, president of the (NOCSA), announced South Africa’s acceptance of an invitation to participate in the Olympic Game

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Christopher Columbus first learns about growing and harvesting maize, now SA’s staple food, from the native population of Cuba.

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Victor (Vic) Toweel, (bantamweight) becomes SA’s first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes

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Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of SA’s greatest working-class martyrs, is arrested

Zuleikha Mayat portrait

Zuleikha Mayat

Imam Abdullah Haron portrait

Imam Abdullah Haron

1987, the year of the Krimpvark, the cougar of the rooibok? presidential Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town, 1987

1987, the year of the Krimpvark, the cougar of the rooibok? presidential Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Cape Town, 1987

One-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks

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One-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks

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In SA’s first ever Fifa sanctioned match the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Cameroon 1-0 in an international friendly gam

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Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.

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SA closes its consulate in Wellington after the New Zealand prime minister cuts diplomatic ties because of SA’s racial segregat

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Eight people, including Sam Nywayo, are killed during a two-hour attack on the homes of ANC activists in Esikhaweni, Natal.

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ANC leader Nelson Mandela says in Geneva, Switzerland, that SA’s Black population is prepared to suffer the consequences of san

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The Natal Mercury reports that Mr Jan Steyn, a director of Hillview Investments, announced that the company was to develop SA’s

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SA’s first national news Agency, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established from what was the Reuters South Afr

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Sam Kahn announces in Parliament that the Communist Party of South African has disbanded. The announcement is made a few days b

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SA’s new constitution is enacted by parliament, signalling the end of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa.

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The merger between Ashanti Goldfields and SA’s Anglo-Gold, approved by the Ghanaian government on 29 October 2003, becomes effe

Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba portrait

Bishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba

Letter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.

Letter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.

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SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia, with one gold and two bro

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Relations between SA and the USA becomes strained by SA’s announcement that it is going to normalise full diplomatic ties with

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A Rhodesian plane is shot down with a SAM 7 missile and thirty-eight of the fifty-six passengers are killed instantly, while gu

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Du Prè Alexander, Earl of Caledon arrives in the Cape as SA’s first civilian governor. He instituted circuit courts in 1811.

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The Job Creation Trust, aimed at raising millions for the relief of unemployment, is launched by SA’s three major trade union f

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André Stander, SA’s suave heist man and bank robber, flees to Fort Lauderdale in the US using a false passport. Allan He

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Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de