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A fifty-two-strong delegation, led by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine, leaves SA for talks with the African Natio

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The UN Security Council imposes an eighteen-month diamond ban on Sierra Leone’s rebels in a bid to strangle their ability to fi

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The United Nations (UN) comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 (51?) nations. SA premier Jan

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Gert van den Bergh, SA actor and first free-lance radio broadcaster who was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetens

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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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Robert Van Tonder, founder of the Boerestaat Party in 1986 to fight for the restoration of the old Transvaal, Northern Natal an

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Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom several places and towns in SA are named, e.g. Port

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A Netherlands fleet under Wijbrand van Warwijk arrives at an island in the Indian Ocean. They stay for nearly four months to re

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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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Gert van den Bergh, SA actor and first free-lance radio broadcaster who was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetens

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Albert van de Sandt Centlivres, chief justice of SA and chancellor of the University of Cape Town, is born in Cape Town.

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Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province.

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Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.

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Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in

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The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu

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WWII: Dan Pienaar gains distinction in an attack on the Italian outpost of El Wak and is awarded the Distinguished Service Orde

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Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania. He died on 6 Jan. 1995.

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At least fourteen children have contracted HIV in SA hospitals and researchers say it should be a ‘wake-up’ call for the under-

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Justice Sfiso Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban. As a child he drew on sand walls. He received formal art training at t

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A fifty-two-strong delegation, led by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine, leaves SA for talks with the African Natio

The UN Security Council imposes an eighteen-month diamond ban on Sierra Leone’s rebels in a bid to strangle their ability to fi

The United Nations (UN) comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 (51?) nations. SA premier Jan

Gert van den Bergh, SA actor and first free-lance radio broadcaster who was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetens

Tjaart van der Walt, frontier farmer and field commandant who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co

Robert Van Tonder, founder of the Boerestaat Party in 1986 to fight for the restoration of the old Transvaal, Northern Natal an

Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom several places and towns in SA are named, e.g. Port

A Netherlands fleet under Wijbrand van Warwijk arrives at an island in the Indian Ocean. They stay for nearly four months to re

Tjaart van der Walt, frontier farmer and field commandant who played an important role in the third frontier war against the co

Gert van den Bergh, SA actor and first free-lance radio broadcaster who was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetens

Albert van de Sandt Centlivres, chief justice of SA and chancellor of the University of Cape Town, is born in Cape Town.

Jonathan Ayliff, SA lawyer and politician, brother of John and son of the Rev. John Ayliff, is born in Salem, Cape Province.

Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.

Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in

The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu

WWII: Dan Pienaar gains distinction in an attack on the Italian outpost of El Wak and is awarded the Distinguished Service Orde

Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania. He died on 6 Jan. 1995.

At least fourteen children have contracted HIV in SA hospitals and researchers say it should be a ‘wake-up’ call for the under-

Justice Sfiso Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban. As a child he drew on sand walls. He received formal art training at t