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The United Nations General Assembly votes by 114 votes to two (South Africa and Portugal), with three abstentions (Britain, Fra
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Gen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born near Greytown, Natal.
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Indian and Coloured members walk out of Parliament in protest against the draft Group Areas Amendment Bill, the Free Settlement
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Margaret Mary Smith, artist and ichthyologist, is born in Indwe, Eastern Cape. She illustrated the book of her husband, Prof. J
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Schabir Shaik’s appeal against his June 2005 Durban High Court fraud and corruption conviction starts in the Supreme Court of A
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The Commission of Inquiry into the 1986 Unrest and Alleged Mismanagement in KwaNdebele, originally to be headed by Mr Justice W
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Anglo-Boer War 2 The British under Generals R. Pole-Carew and I.S.M. Hamilton occupy the deserted Komatipoort on the ZAR easter
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Following the slayings of hundreds of civilians in a series of incidents believed linked to upcoming elections and the long tho
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Rioters in the Congo burn and loot the Portuguese embassy in Kinshasa, demanding that relations with Portugal be broken off.
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The world press speculates that a bright flash detected by an American satellite between SA and the Antarctic was caused by a S
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The UN and UNAIDS, its Aids programme, issues a progress report on how member nations were adhering to commitments made during
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It is reported that the President, Vice-President and Secretary-General of the Hervormde Kerk (Reformed Church) of the Netherla
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Douglas Portway, SA born artist who left SA and has since resided in several European countries, is born in Johannesburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR takes over control of the railway lines and workshops of the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg
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United Nations deploys 4 000 troops to Katanga to prevent the massacre of Baluba tribesmen by provincial troops and police in C
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United Nations deploys 4 000 troops to Katanga to prevent the massacre of Baluba tribesmen by provincial troops and police in C
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Kwame Nkrumah, premier and later president of Ghana, is born in Nkroful, British colony of the Gold Coast (later Ghana).
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King Goodwill Zwelithini and the Zulu Royal Family severs all ties with Chief Buthelezi. This followed a stoning by Inkatha Fre
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In the Athens Paralympic Games, field athlete Fanie Lombaard wins a gold medal (his sixth Paralympic medal, three gold and one
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Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, dies in exile in London.
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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria to discuss majority ru
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Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria opens the new building for the SA Library and Museum.
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The Paralympic Games open in Athens, with Amakrokokroko table tennis star Rosabelle Riese carrying the SA flag and leading the
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Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat and US President Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David accord, laying the groundwork for a permanent pea
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Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, dies in Kimberl
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The trial of Dr Allan Boesak on thirty-two charges of theft and fraud starts in the Cape Supreme Court.
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The trial of Dr Allan Boesak on thirty-two charges of theft and fraud starts in the Cape Supreme Court.
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John Vorster announces that while Dr. Connie Mulder will remain Minister of Plural Relations and Development, the Bureau for Na
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John Vorster announces that while Dr. Connie Mulder will remain Minister of Plural Relations and Development, the Bureau for Na
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