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Anglo American chairman Gavin Relly, in his annual report, urges the government to scrap the Group Areas Act.

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Zola Budd and Annette Cowley, South African runner and swimmer respectively, are banned from the Commonwealth Games.

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The Live Aid concert for African famine relief takes place simultaneously in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London, England and

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The last all-White Parliament ends its last session in Cape Town.

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The Transvaal Attorney General announces that AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche and three associates will face terrorism charges,

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Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–80), dies in Gaborone, Botswana due to pancreatic cancer.

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The SA rugby team loses against the British Lions 9-26 in Port Elizabeth.

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Firing squads in Morocco execute ten army officers accused of trying to overthrow King Hassan.

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The SA rugby team beats the British Lions 11-6 on Newlands, Cape Town.

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The SA rugby team beats Australia 14-3 in the first test in Pretoria.

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The Security police disclose the existence of an underground group the Yu Chi Chan, said to include people trained in Peking an

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The government of India announces that it is cutting India’s last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing and pas

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Fietas, Johannesburg: A memorandum relating to the housing conditions and need for housing schemes of poorer Indians is present

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Nigeria’s 1986 Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, novelist, playwright and poet, is born in Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria.

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Johannes Jacobus Fagan, SA composer, commits suicide in London because of worsening health problems and the death of his young

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Ernest Sedumedi Moloto, linguist, educationist and teacher who served as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of SA a

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Garfield Todd, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) from 1953 to 1958, is born at Invercargill, New Zealand.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: J.P. Coetzee, Cape rebel, is executed by the British and all male adults are ordered to attend.

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Anglo-Boer War 2 -At a council of war, Chief Commandant De Wet explains the shortcomings of the Republican concentration in the

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A crosswind destroys the barracks of the Salvation Army in Church Street, Pretoria West. One person is injured.

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Abbas I, viceroy of Egypt under the Ottomans who opposed Western-inspired reforms, is strangled by two of his servants, and suc

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Queen Victoria is the first monarch to move into Buckingham Palace, London.

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Judge Moroa Tsoka grants a temporary court order to Chief Superintendent Stanley Sagathevan and his suspended colleagues, Chief

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Bill Flynn (58), popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg, presumably of a heart attack. His highly successful career includes lea

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Ashwell Prince is appointed as South Africa’s first Black cricket captain.

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BBC News reports hundreds of demonstrators have protested at a game ranch in South Africa over the ill-treatment of fourteen ba

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SA signs agreement with the Commonwealth Development Corporation.

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The home match between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Cameroon ends in a tie, with 2 goals each.

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Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee grants the “Sharpeville Six” an indefinite stay of execution. Date is given as 14 July in anot

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The Johannesburg chief magistrate refuses permission for a concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday. The date is g

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Anglo American chairman Gavin Relly, in his annual report, urges the government to scrap the Group Areas Act.

Zola Budd and Annette Cowley, South African runner and swimmer respectively, are banned from the Commonwealth Games.

The Live Aid concert for African famine relief takes place simultaneously in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London, England and

The last all-White Parliament ends its last session in Cape Town.

The Transvaal Attorney General announces that AWB leader Eugene Terreblanche and three associates will face terrorism charges,

Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–80), dies in Gaborone, Botswana due to pancreatic cancer.

The SA rugby team loses against the British Lions 9-26 in Port Elizabeth.

Firing squads in Morocco execute ten army officers accused of trying to overthrow King Hassan.

The SA rugby team beats the British Lions 11-6 on Newlands, Cape Town.

The SA rugby team beats Australia 14-3 in the first test in Pretoria.

The Security police disclose the existence of an underground group the Yu Chi Chan, said to include people trained in Peking an

The government of India announces that it is cutting India’s last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing and pas

Fietas, Johannesburg: A memorandum relating to the housing conditions and need for housing schemes of poorer Indians is present

Nigeria’s 1986 Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, novelist, playwright and poet, is born in Abeokuta, south-western Nigeria.

Johannes Jacobus Fagan, SA composer, commits suicide in London because of worsening health problems and the death of his young

Ernest Sedumedi Moloto, linguist, educationist and teacher who served as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of SA a

Garfield Todd, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) from 1953 to 1958, is born at Invercargill, New Zealand.

Anglo-Boer War 2: J.P. Coetzee, Cape rebel, is executed by the British and all male adults are ordered to attend.

Anglo-Boer War 2 -At a council of war, Chief Commandant De Wet explains the shortcomings of the Republican concentration in the

A crosswind destroys the barracks of the Salvation Army in Church Street, Pretoria West. One person is injured.

Abbas I, viceroy of Egypt under the Ottomans who opposed Western-inspired reforms, is strangled by two of his servants, and suc

Queen Victoria is the first monarch to move into Buckingham Palace, London.

Judge Moroa Tsoka grants a temporary court order to Chief Superintendent Stanley Sagathevan and his suspended colleagues, Chief

Bill Flynn (58), popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg, presumably of a heart attack. His highly successful career includes lea

Ashwell Prince is appointed as South Africa’s first Black cricket captain.

BBC News reports hundreds of demonstrators have protested at a game ranch in South Africa over the ill-treatment of fourteen ba

SA signs agreement with the Commonwealth Development Corporation.

The home match between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Cameroon ends in a tie, with 2 goals each.

Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee grants the “Sharpeville Six” an indefinite stay of execution. Date is given as 14 July in anot

The Johannesburg chief magistrate refuses permission for a concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday. The date is g