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Sir Richard Francis Burton (69), ‘discoverer’ of Lake Tanganyika, dies of heart failure.

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Jonathan Ayliff (56), Cape attorney, politician and colonial secretary, dies in London.

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Frederich Martin Joseph Welwitsch (66), botanist and discoverer of the welwitschia plant in Namibia, dies in London.

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Andrew Geddes Bain, a pioneer SA geologist, road engineer, explorer and writer, dies in Cape Town. He constructed Bain’s Kloof

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The corner stone of the oldest church building in Transvaal, the Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk in Potchefstroom, is laid.

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The Cape of Good Hope Royal Observatory is founded.

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Martin Melck, donator of the stand and builder of the Lutheran church on it, now a national monument, is born in Eastern Prussi

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World Osteoporosis Day.

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News 24 reports that following the departure of Nobel laureate JM Coetzee to Australia, authors such as Andre P Brink, Rian Mal

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News 24 reports that following the departure of Nobel laureate JM Coetzee to Australia, authors such as Andre P Brink, Rian Mal

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The national prosecuting authority (NPA) rules that a fresh prosecution of Dr Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert, on

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The South African Competitions Commission finds two giant pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline Kline South Africa and Boch

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The South African Competitions Commission finds two giant pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline Kline South Africa and Boch

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The Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel, which conducted the bulk of its work in 2000, identifies a number of potential areas for

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Kenyan police attack pro-democracy demonstrators in Nairobi with whips, clubs and tear gas, sending thousands of panicked prote

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Kenyan police attack pro-democracy demonstrators in Nairobi with whips, clubs and tear gas, sending thousands of panicked prote

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Political assassination: Michion Mkhize, IFP student leader at the University of Zululand, is stabbed to death.

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African National Congress President Nelson Mandela acknowledges that prisoners in congress military camps had been tortured dur

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President de Klerk’s proposal to open the ranks of the National Party to all South Africans is accepted by the fourth and final

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Death Row prisoner Butana Almond Nofomela is granted a last minute stay of execution following his revelations that he and four

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The one-year-old parliamentary opposition People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former ANC member Rocky Ma

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Mohammed Valli Moosa, Murphy Morobe and Vusi Khanyile end their 37-day sit-in at the American Consulate-General in Johannesburg

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In 1987, world markets are enjoying a record-setting bull run, seemingly unbothered by occasional cocaine scandals or the arres

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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticises the ANC, calling it “a terrorist organisation”.

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President Samora Machel of Mozambique is killed in an air crash in eastern South Africa shortly after 21:00. Thirty-four people

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Dorothy Fisher, SA’s first female heart transplant patient, dies, twelve years after she had received her new heart.

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The United States declares that the Carter Administration will be re-examining its relations with the South African government.

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The Foreign Minister hands over a seventy-six room presidential palace, which cost an estimated R1 .8 m. to build, to Transkei

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Emergency powers are proclaimed by the government of Venda.

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Police jail dozens of government opponents not previously detained, including The World’s editor, Percy Qoboza. Banning orders

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Sir Richard Francis Burton (69), ‘discoverer’ of Lake Tanganyika, dies of heart failure.

Jonathan Ayliff (56), Cape attorney, politician and colonial secretary, dies in London.

Frederich Martin Joseph Welwitsch (66), botanist and discoverer of the welwitschia plant in Namibia, dies in London.

Andrew Geddes Bain, a pioneer SA geologist, road engineer, explorer and writer, dies in Cape Town. He constructed Bain’s Kloof

The corner stone of the oldest church building in Transvaal, the Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk in Potchefstroom, is laid.

The Cape of Good Hope Royal Observatory is founded.

Martin Melck, donator of the stand and builder of the Lutheran church on it, now a national monument, is born in Eastern Prussi

World Osteoporosis Day.

News 24 reports that following the departure of Nobel laureate JM Coetzee to Australia, authors such as Andre P Brink, Rian Mal

News 24 reports that following the departure of Nobel laureate JM Coetzee to Australia, authors such as Andre P Brink, Rian Mal

The national prosecuting authority (NPA) rules that a fresh prosecution of Dr Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert, on

The South African Competitions Commission finds two giant pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline Kline South Africa and Boch

The South African Competitions Commission finds two giant pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline Kline South Africa and Boch

The Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel, which conducted the bulk of its work in 2000, identifies a number of potential areas for

Kenyan police attack pro-democracy demonstrators in Nairobi with whips, clubs and tear gas, sending thousands of panicked prote

Kenyan police attack pro-democracy demonstrators in Nairobi with whips, clubs and tear gas, sending thousands of panicked prote

Political assassination: Michion Mkhize, IFP student leader at the University of Zululand, is stabbed to death.

African National Congress President Nelson Mandela acknowledges that prisoners in congress military camps had been tortured dur

President de Klerk’s proposal to open the ranks of the National Party to all South Africans is accepted by the fourth and final

Death Row prisoner Butana Almond Nofomela is granted a last minute stay of execution following his revelations that he and four

The one-year-old parliamentary opposition People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former ANC member Rocky Ma

Mohammed Valli Moosa, Murphy Morobe and Vusi Khanyile end their 37-day sit-in at the American Consulate-General in Johannesburg

In 1987, world markets are enjoying a record-setting bull run, seemingly unbothered by occasional cocaine scandals or the arres

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticises the ANC, calling it “a terrorist organisation”.

President Samora Machel of Mozambique is killed in an air crash in eastern South Africa shortly after 21:00. Thirty-four people

Dorothy Fisher, SA’s first female heart transplant patient, dies, twelve years after she had received her new heart.

The United States declares that the Carter Administration will be re-examining its relations with the South African government.

The Foreign Minister hands over a seventy-six room presidential palace, which cost an estimated R1 .8 m. to build, to Transkei

Emergency powers are proclaimed by the government of Venda.

Police jail dozens of government opponents not previously detained, including The World’s editor, Percy Qoboza. Banning orders