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… The first golf club in SA, the Cape Golf Club (later the Royal Cape Golf Club), is …

… Jeremy (Japie) de Villiers, chief justice of the Union of SA, is born in Fauresmith, OFS. …

… Eric Hendrik Louw, SA minister of finance and first ambassador to the US, is born in Jacobsdal, OFS. …

… Prof. Geof Cronjé, promoter of stage productions in SA and chairman of various councils and committees, is born. …

… Sydney Carter, SA painter known for his landscape paintings, dies in President Brand Park, district of Harrismith, OFS. …

… (John) Vorster, former prime minister and president of SA, marries Martinie Steyn Malan in Worcester, CP. …

… SA cricket player Jacobus Petrus Duminy, who played in three …

… Dr Daniël Francois Malan, premier of SA at the age of 74, is born in Riebeeck West, CC. …

… Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi, SA artist, is born in Guguletu, Cape. He exhibited three …

… The away game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius ends in a tie with the score 1-1. …

… The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Angola ends in a tie with no goals scored. …

… Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, is born in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia. …

… Richard Mzamane Mabaso, SA artist, is born in Alexandra, Johannesburg.    He started …

… The first memorial stamps with surtax are issued in SA.   They are known as the Voortrekker Memorial Stamps. …

… of the Nelspoort Sanatorium, first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is bor …

… The home match between Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius, ends in a tie with no goals scored.  …

… Abraham J. Kotzé, missionary in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), dies of pneumonia shortly before his return to SA. …

… Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, to which SA is a party, is signed in Vienna. …

… Jack Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA medal for outstanding service is named, dies in Pretoria. …

… is being conducted against churches and religious workers in SA, Prime Minister Vorste …

… Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State. …

… on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva. …

… Ragunanan (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and former SA Minister of Transport, is born in Newcastle, Natal. He …

… Dorothy Fischer becomes the first woman in SA to receive a new heart.  She lives for twelve years …

… Prison labour has a particularly debatable history in South Africa.  Historically, South Africa operated on the … Then, the role of the State as the provider of unskilled black labour for the mines through the penal system had … lines. Mine owners treated white workers differently from black workers. Prisoners were forced to do hard labour. For …

… In a first-phase report, the Commonwealth Observer Mission to … homicide rate, this country was one of the most violent in the world. COMSA, a fifteen-member team, which consisted … COMSA calls on SA to move towards election …

… Letter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Clemens Kapuwo, supporting the people of Namibia in their struggle … Letter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Clemens Kapuwo …

… to reconvene conferences that promote political rights for Black people in South Africa. … Black Renaissance Convention, St.Peters Conference Centre, …

… to reconvene conferences that promote political rights for Black people in South Africa. … Black Renaissance Convention, St.Peters Conference Centre, …

… Rugby player, Mahlatse Chiliboy Ralepelle was born in Tzaneen on 11 September 1986. Ralepelle moved to Pretoria … the rugby team. He was selected for the under- 15 squad in 2001 and the under-19 squad in 2004. Ralepelle made history in 2006 when he became the first Black rugby player to captain the Springboks. In 2010, his …