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This day saw R2 million worth of damage in 36 hours of fighting. Langa and Guguletu residents stop employees leaving for work.
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Clashes among local militias, a rebel group and the Ugandan army kills at least ninety people. The victims, many of whom had be
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Dr. K.G. Abrahams is arrested in Gobabis area of South West Africa, and subsequently charged with being the chairman of the Yu
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Four men die instantly when a car swerves to avoid a second which was spinning on the Odi race track and ploughed into spectato
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Tjaart van der Walt, frontier farmer and field commandant who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co
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In a joint statement released by the ANC and the government, the ANC announces the suspension of its thirty-year-old armed stru
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The Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, to which SA is a party, is signed i
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Smuts’ force finds a sheep kraal at Koot Krause’s farm that the British have filled with sheep and the
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Erasmus Smit, controversial preacher of the Voortrekkers, dies one day after his 85th birthday and one week after his wife, Sus
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Having held talks on the escalating crisis over control of the Suez Canal with France and the US, Britain mobilises its forces.
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Having held talks on the escalating crisis over control of the Suez Canal with France and the US, Britain mobilises its forces.
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Josephus Suasso de Lima, editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, De Verzamelaar, is born in Amsterdam, the Net
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The rugby match between SA and France ends in a tie with 20 each. It is François Pienaar’s first match as Springbok captain.
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Sisulu makes the first broadcast on “Radio Freedom” from a secret hideout in SA. He urges the youth to join forces and continue
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The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and hundreds of Russian-built T-34 tanks cross the border into S
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Violence continued in Kwazulu-Natal. Thirty-seven murdered are reported on 22-23 June and fourteen on 24 June. The victims incl
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The match between the SA rugby team and the British Lions ends in a tie, with both sides scoring 6 points in Port Elizabeth.
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The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers. Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb
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Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
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Leonid Shvetsov of Russia sets a new recod of five hours, 20 minutes and 49 seconds in winning the 2007 Comrades Marathon Down
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South African White extremist Eugene Terre’Blanche is sentenced to six years in jail for trying to murder a Black man and assau
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The Star reports that Mrs Albert Sisulu was granted a passport to meet United States president George Bus, and to visit the wif
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The Status of the Transkei Bill passes its second reading in the Senate, despite opposition from the United Party and the Progr
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A general election is held after Gen. J.C. Smuts lost his seat in a by-election in April and resigned as premier without consul
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Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he
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At the end of a damaging six-day strike of cabin crew and ground staff, SOUTH African Airways (SAA) undertakes to improve the w
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News 24 reports that the worst fires in SA history wrecked havoc in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal during the past weekend. Fires
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South Africa has held up supplies of British weapons to Lesotho and the UK has complained several times about the delays, offic
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Following decisions by the ‘Committee of 81’ on 16 July and 30 July 1980, Coloured students suspend their boycott of schools in
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