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ANC and ZAPU announce military alliance.

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South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games because of its apartheid policies.

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The first two Avro Shackleton Mk III anti-submarine aircraft arrive in SA.

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The SA rugby team loses the third test against New Zealand 10-17 in Christchurch.

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Samuel Ngibisa Mabela at the Birdhaven plantation in Illovo, Johannesburg, finds the corpse of murdered Bubbles Schroeder, miss

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An Anglo-French plan to give Italy economic concessions if they renounce their claims for Ethiopia are rejected by Italy during

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Born this day, Luc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causing AIDS, the disease with

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The Springbok rugby team beats New Zealand 11-6 in Port Elizabeth.

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Magdalena Jacomina (Minnie) Postma, early Afrikaans author, is born in Ficksburg, OFS.

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Fax Odendaal, the first chairman of PACT, is born.

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France annexes Madagascar.

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Dr Bertha Stoneman, SA botanist and educationist and appointed principal of the Huguenot University College in 1916, is born in

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The first ‘Staatskoerant’ is published in Pretoria.

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Jonker Afrikaner, chief of the Afrikaner tribe of Hottentots, dies in Okahandja, German West Africa. He was born c. 1790 in

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Sir George Gray, governor of the Cape, lays the cornerstone of the New Somerset Hospital in Green Point, Cape Town.

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Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu, now in Mali. He was murdered there the f

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Petrus Johannes Denyssen, judge of the Cape Supreme Court, is born in Cape Town.

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Baron Joachim (Ammena) van Plettenberg (54), previously governor at the Cape, dies in Windesheim, Zwolle, the Netherlands.

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J. van Arkel, the first resident Dutch clergyman, arrives at the Cape. Date is given as 17 August by another source.

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Former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok and former police chief Johan van der Merwe, together with former Major-General Chri

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Southern African Development Community Day (SADC).

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Ghanaian authorities lift state of emergency in northern towns of Tamale and Yendi.

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Ruth Perry is chosen by a meeting of West African heads of state to chair Liberia’s ruling council, thus becoming Africa’s firs

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Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga

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Riots spread through Lesotho after King Letsie III dissolved the country’s first democratically elected government for 20 years

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Multi-party negotiators agree unanimously on the incorporation of Walvis Bay by Namibia.

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The treaty establishing the South African Development Community (SADC), which replaces the Southern African Development Coordin

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SA signs memorandum of agreement with Lesotho regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the international border br

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The UN Security Council authorises the urgent stationing of an open number of UN observers in South Africa to help end violence

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The ANC as well as COSATU issued statements accusing elements of the South African security forces of orchestrating the conflic

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ANC and ZAPU announce military alliance.

South Africa is banned from the Olympic Games because of its apartheid policies.

The first two Avro Shackleton Mk III anti-submarine aircraft arrive in SA.

The SA rugby team loses the third test against New Zealand 10-17 in Christchurch.

Samuel Ngibisa Mabela at the Birdhaven plantation in Illovo, Johannesburg, finds the corpse of murdered Bubbles Schroeder, miss

An Anglo-French plan to give Italy economic concessions if they renounce their claims for Ethiopia are rejected by Italy during

Born this day, Luc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causing AIDS, the disease with

The Springbok rugby team beats New Zealand 11-6 in Port Elizabeth.

Magdalena Jacomina (Minnie) Postma, early Afrikaans author, is born in Ficksburg, OFS.

Fax Odendaal, the first chairman of PACT, is born.

France annexes Madagascar.

Dr Bertha Stoneman, SA botanist and educationist and appointed principal of the Huguenot University College in 1916, is born in

The first ‘Staatskoerant’ is published in Pretoria.

Jonker Afrikaner, chief of the Afrikaner tribe of Hottentots, dies in Okahandja, German West Africa. He was born c. 1790 in

Sir George Gray, governor of the Cape, lays the cornerstone of the New Somerset Hospital in Green Point, Cape Town.

Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu, now in Mali. He was murdered there the f

Petrus Johannes Denyssen, judge of the Cape Supreme Court, is born in Cape Town.

Baron Joachim (Ammena) van Plettenberg (54), previously governor at the Cape, dies in Windesheim, Zwolle, the Netherlands.

J. van Arkel, the first resident Dutch clergyman, arrives at the Cape. Date is given as 17 August by another source.

Former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok and former police chief Johan van der Merwe, together with former Major-General Chri

Southern African Development Community Day (SADC).

Ghanaian authorities lift state of emergency in northern towns of Tamale and Yendi.

Ruth Perry is chosen by a meeting of West African heads of state to chair Liberia’s ruling council, thus becoming Africa’s firs

Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga

Riots spread through Lesotho after King Letsie III dissolved the country’s first democratically elected government for 20 years

Multi-party negotiators agree unanimously on the incorporation of Walvis Bay by Namibia.

The treaty establishing the South African Development Community (SADC), which replaces the Southern African Development Coordin

SA signs memorandum of agreement with Lesotho regarding the design, construction and maintenance of the international border br

The UN Security Council authorises the urgent stationing of an open number of UN observers in South Africa to help end violence

The ANC as well as COSATU issued statements accusing elements of the South African security forces of orchestrating the conflic