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John Ayliff jr, missionary, private secretary of governor Sir George Grey and postmaster-general of Natal, dies on board the Da
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The H F Verwoerd Dam in the Orange Free State has been renamed the Gariep Dam with immediate effect, Water Affairs and Forestry
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SA cricket players record their first ever innings win over England when they beat Nassar Hussain’s tourists by an innings and
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Congo reaches a cease-fire agreement in Paris with Uganda and Rwanda, which support rebels in Congo, but the rebel groups thems
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The Afrikaner Broederbond (AB) adopts a new constitution, which will allow women and all race groups as members, as long as the
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Six South Africans and three Lesotho nationals are killed in an attack for which the renegade Lesotho Liberation Army claims re
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Sir Laurens van der Post (90), SA born explorer, author and mentor of Britain’s Prince Charles, dies in Chelsea, England. The d
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The Women’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein, to commemorate 26 251 women and children who died during Anglo-Boer War 2, ma
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Dr John Daniël Kestell (Vader Kestell), moderator of the DRC synod, editor of Die Kerkbode, and rector of Grey University Coll
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A move to expel South Africa from UNCTAD (The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) is defeated in the United Nat
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Angola, Cuba, and South Africa end eight months of negotiations under US mediation for a settlement in South West Africa by sig
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Fikile Magadledla, SA artist, co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, illustrator of several books and writer of poetry to ac
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Balthazar Johannes (John) Vorster, premier (1966-1978) and state president (1978-1979) of SA, is born in the district of Jamest
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The Mozambique Convention, an agreement between the ZAR and Portugal, paves the way for the construction of the Delagoa Bay rai
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The Minister of Community Development relaxes the Group Areas Act permit system and announces that Blacks will in future be adm
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Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College (later Grey University College and still later the University of the Free State) dies in
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Britain and France agree to accept a Middle East cease-fire in the Suez War if UN forces can keep the peace.
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Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, dies
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Daniel Ferdinand (Danie) Bosman, pioneer and composer of light Afrikaans music, is born. He died on 27 May 1946, in Muizenberg,
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Paul Roux, preacher and teacher of the French Huguenot community at Drakenstein after the Rev. Pierre Simond had left in 1702,
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The African Union says the military in Togo has conducted a virtual coup by ignoring the constitution and appointing the son of
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Twelve people, nine women and three children, are killed in a pre-dawn attack by a group of unknown people in Masunkazane, Rich
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Jean van der Poel, eminent historian and teacher who researched on the life of General Smuts, is born in Cape Town.
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South Africa signs an accord granting independence to South-West Africa. Angola, Cuba, and South Africa end eight months of ne
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Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire suspected of being behind the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, is reporte
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The first test match between SA and Pakistan starts a day late after the alleged mugging of two Pakistani players in Sandton.
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A Somali gunman hijacks a Lufthansa Airbus over Austria with 104 people aboard and orders it flown to New York, where he surren
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The House of Assembly approves, by eighty-six votes to forty-three, a motion to appoint a Select Committee to inquire into and
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League of Nations debates the border dispute between Italy and Ethiopia, whilst Mussolini prepares to ship out 35,000 troops to
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