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Graaff-Reinet is founded.

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Graaff-Reinet is founded.

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A Sudanese court sentences ten Arab militiamen to amputation of limbs and six years in jail in the first conviction of Janjawie

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Former President Nelson Mandela celebrates his 86th birthday with family and friends at his Qunu home, Eastern Cape Province.

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Christoffel Coetzee, SA author and winner of the Eugène Marais and M-Net awards for his novel ‘Op soek na generaal Mannetjies

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Swimmer Penny Heyns of SA sets four world records in just two days in the 100m and 200m breaststroke in South California, USA.

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Pres. Nelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg.

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Max, a 180 kg gorilla, is shot in his neck and shoulder by a robber who got into his cage.

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Jacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the International Boxing Association (IBA) world champion title.

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SA signs an agreement upgrading diplomatic relations with Tanzania.

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SA signs agreement with Namibia with a view to regulating certain taxation matters in Walvis Bay.

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Dome Wellington Ngobese, chairperson of the IFP branch at Glebelands Hostel, is gunned down in his hostel room in Umlazi, Natal

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Twenty-six commuters are killed by vigilantes, allegedly as result of sporadic gun fighting between rival ANC and IFP supportin

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Angola, Cuba, and South Africa, after talks in New York from 11-13 July under US mediation, announce that they have reached ten

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The pro-government Afrikaans newspaper, Die Beeld, in an editorial coinciding with Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday, urges the go

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The Nigerian President of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) states that Britain and other countries maintaining sp

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The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit at Khartoum, Sudan, is attended by thirty African nations.

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Egyptian and Israeli officials begin two days of talks.

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Nelson Mandela celebrates his sixtieth birthday on Robben Island.

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The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid comes into force.

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Egypt demands the Soviet Union remove its 20,000 advisers from the country, accusing it of failing to supply promised arms.

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The SA Minister of Finance attacks the United States and other former ‘gold pool’ countries for attempting to reduce the moneta

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Hugh Masekela strikes gold with the breezy, Latin-soul instrumental Grazing in the Grass, while Gary Puckett and The Union Gap

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The verdict of the International Court in the Hague in connection with South Africa’s mandate of South West Africa is delivered

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Darryl Kelfkens, SA actor in Egoli is born.

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Harold Wolpe, a Johannesburg solicitor and listed Communist, is arrested on the Bechuanaland border.

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The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second Interim Report recommending an effective embargo on the s

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Dr Karl Bremmer, SA minister of health after whom the Karl Bremer Hospital in Bellville was named, dies in Cape Town.

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Marthinus Johannes (Tinus) de Jongh (57), SA landscape painter, dies in Bloemfontein.

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Fikile Charles Bam, advocate, president of Land Claims Court since 1996 and director of several companies, including Volkswagen

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Graaff-Reinet is founded.

Graaff-Reinet is founded.

A Sudanese court sentences ten Arab militiamen to amputation of limbs and six years in jail in the first conviction of Janjawie

Former President Nelson Mandela celebrates his 86th birthday with family and friends at his Qunu home, Eastern Cape Province.

Christoffel Coetzee, SA author and winner of the Eugène Marais and M-Net awards for his novel ‘Op soek na generaal Mannetjies

Swimmer Penny Heyns of SA sets four world records in just two days in the 100m and 200m breaststroke in South California, USA.

Pres. Nelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg.

Max, a 180 kg gorilla, is shot in his neck and shoulder by a robber who got into his cage.

Jacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the International Boxing Association (IBA) world champion title.

SA signs an agreement upgrading diplomatic relations with Tanzania.

SA signs agreement with Namibia with a view to regulating certain taxation matters in Walvis Bay.

Dome Wellington Ngobese, chairperson of the IFP branch at Glebelands Hostel, is gunned down in his hostel room in Umlazi, Natal

Twenty-six commuters are killed by vigilantes, allegedly as result of sporadic gun fighting between rival ANC and IFP supportin

Angola, Cuba, and South Africa, after talks in New York from 11-13 July under US mediation, announce that they have reached ten

The pro-government Afrikaans newspaper, Die Beeld, in an editorial coinciding with Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday, urges the go

The Nigerian President of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) states that Britain and other countries maintaining sp

The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit at Khartoum, Sudan, is attended by thirty African nations.

Egyptian and Israeli officials begin two days of talks.

Nelson Mandela celebrates his sixtieth birthday on Robben Island.

The International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid comes into force.

Egypt demands the Soviet Union remove its 20,000 advisers from the country, accusing it of failing to supply promised arms.

The SA Minister of Finance attacks the United States and other former ‘gold pool’ countries for attempting to reduce the moneta

Hugh Masekela strikes gold with the breezy, Latin-soul instrumental Grazing in the Grass, while Gary Puckett and The Union Gap

The verdict of the International Court in the Hague in connection with South Africa’s mandate of South West Africa is delivered

Darryl Kelfkens, SA actor in Egoli is born.

Harold Wolpe, a Johannesburg solicitor and listed Communist, is arrested on the Bechuanaland border.

The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second Interim Report recommending an effective embargo on the s

Dr Karl Bremmer, SA minister of health after whom the Karl Bremer Hospital in Bellville was named, dies in Cape Town.

Marthinus Johannes (Tinus) de Jongh (57), SA landscape painter, dies in Bloemfontein.

Fikile Charles Bam, advocate, president of Land Claims Court since 1996 and director of several companies, including Volkswagen