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SA signs a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the voluntary repatriation and

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Riots continue, 4-5 September. The youth come out in the Coloured townships. Schools, libraries and a magistrate’s court are se

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Dr Martin Heinrich (Hinrich) Karl Lichtenstein (77), physician, naturalist and explorer of the interior of South Africa, dies o

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Tinashe Washington Nengomasha, Zimbabwean international football player who played for Kaizer Chiefs and was winner of the Kick

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Sir Harry Smith proclaims the territory between the Orange and Vaal Rivers British territory, discounting protests by Voortrekk

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Demonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho to protest election results, while a week-old mutiny by a

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Cyprian Bhekuzulu Nyangayezizwe KaDinuzulu, fourth son of Solomon KaDinuzulu and Paramount Chief of the Zulus for twenty years,

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Deadline for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia, to leave Djibouti is set.

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President P.W. Botha admits in Parliament that he personally phoned the SA Broadcasting Corporation and intervened to change a

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SA signs multilateral agreement with the governments of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei for the avoidance of double

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President P.W. Botha instructs the Houses of Representatives and Delegates to vote on the controversial Group Areas Amendments

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The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Geneva, bans South Africa from further meetings of the organisation and is

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In the Cape Town Supreme Court a British journalist, David Rabkin, his wife, Susan, and a university lecturer, Jeremy Cronin, a

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Cape Governor Sir George Grey arranges peace between Basotho King Moshesh and the Free State at Aliwal North.

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Allison Wessels George Champion, trade union leader, politician and businessman, dies in Chesterville, Durban. In 1942 he was

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Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher is born in Pretoria. She was youngest daughter of Sir Arnold Theiler.

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The government was implicitly involved in farm attacks, the union’s national safety and security committee chairperson Danie du

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Two burghers and a young boy are allegedly murdered after surrendering to the notorious Bushveld Carbineers

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Prof. Johannes Cornelis van Rooy (64), educationist, rector of the University of Potchefstroom and president of the Federasie v

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Nearly 300 people are killed in a single late-night altercation between the government and Islamic militants in Algeria.

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Mohamed Hajee Joosub, pioneer wholesaler, trader, philanthropist and devout Muslim, dies in Pretoria. He was born in Ranavav, I

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A 3-week-old rebellion reaches the outskirts of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, and hundreds of soldiers are killed or wounded.

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A Defence Bill is passed laying down penalties for any person or organization inciting anyone to avoid military service.

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Dr Andries P. Treurnicht, Minister of Public Works, Statistics and Tourism, is unanimously re-elected as the National Party’s l

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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) passed a resolution barring any athlete from the Olympics who competes in South Afric

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The Chief Minister of Ovamboland, Filemon Elifas (43), is shot and killed near Ondangwa, South West Africa (Namibia).

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Leaders of Syria, Algeria, South Yemen, Libya and Palestine Liberation Organisation announce in Damascus, Syria, they are sever

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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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Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician and member of parliament, dies at Fairfield, Caledon district, Western Cape.

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SA signs a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the voluntary repatriation and

Riots continue, 4-5 September. The youth come out in the Coloured townships. Schools, libraries and a magistrate’s court are se

Dr Martin Heinrich (Hinrich) Karl Lichtenstein (77), physician, naturalist and explorer of the interior of South Africa, dies o

Tinashe Washington Nengomasha, Zimbabwean international football player who played for Kaizer Chiefs and was winner of the Kick

Sir Harry Smith proclaims the territory between the Orange and Vaal Rivers British territory, discounting protests by Voortrekk

Demonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho to protest election results, while a week-old mutiny by a

Cyprian Bhekuzulu Nyangayezizwe KaDinuzulu, fourth son of Solomon KaDinuzulu and Paramount Chief of the Zulus for twenty years,

Deadline for tens of thousands of illegal immigrants, mostly from Ethiopia and Somalia, to leave Djibouti is set.

President P.W. Botha admits in Parliament that he personally phoned the SA Broadcasting Corporation and intervened to change a

SA signs multilateral agreement with the governments of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei for the avoidance of double

President P.W. Botha instructs the Houses of Representatives and Delegates to vote on the controversial Group Areas Amendments

The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Geneva, bans South Africa from further meetings of the organisation and is

In the Cape Town Supreme Court a British journalist, David Rabkin, his wife, Susan, and a university lecturer, Jeremy Cronin, a

Cape Governor Sir George Grey arranges peace between Basotho King Moshesh and the Free State at Aliwal North.

Allison Wessels George Champion, trade union leader, politician and businessman, dies in Chesterville, Durban. In 1942 he was

Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher is born in Pretoria. She was youngest daughter of Sir Arnold Theiler.

The government was implicitly involved in farm attacks, the union’s national safety and security committee chairperson Danie du

Anglo-Boer War 2: Two burghers and a young boy are allegedly murdered after surrendering to the notorious Bushveld Carbineers

Prof. Johannes Cornelis van Rooy (64), educationist, rector of the University of Potchefstroom and president of the Federasie v

Nearly 300 people are killed in a single late-night altercation between the government and Islamic militants in Algeria.

Mohamed Hajee Joosub, pioneer wholesaler, trader, philanthropist and devout Muslim, dies in Pretoria. He was born in Ranavav, I

A 3-week-old rebellion reaches the outskirts of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, and hundreds of soldiers are killed or wounded.

A Defence Bill is passed laying down penalties for any person or organization inciting anyone to avoid military service.

Dr Andries P. Treurnicht, Minister of Public Works, Statistics and Tourism, is unanimously re-elected as the National Party’s l

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) passed a resolution barring any athlete from the Olympics who competes in South Afric

The Chief Minister of Ovamboland, Filemon Elifas (43), is shot and killed near Ondangwa, South West Africa (Namibia).

Leaders of Syria, Algeria, South Yemen, Libya and Palestine Liberation Organisation announce in Damascus, Syria, they are sever

The Rev. D. Wilcocks, lecturer at the Wellington Missionary Institute and clergyman in various places in SA, is born.

SA signs agreement with Namibia regarding standards of livestock breeding and the importation of breeding animals, semen, ova o

Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician and member of parliament, dies at Fairfield, Caledon district, Western Cape.