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The SA rugby team wins their last Tri-Nations match of the season against Australia 10-9 in Newlands, Cape Town.

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The first branch of the Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging is founded in Soweto, with Elliot Mashinini as chairman.

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In Kenya 200 raiders attacks the police station in Likoni, Mombasa. Prisoners are freed; six police officers and seven civilian

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The SA rugby team loses the second test against Australia 20-28 in Brisbane.

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Florence Tshuku and her children Lundi, Mncedisi, Abigail and Edward Gebe, are killed when their home is attacked and burnt.

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The chauffeur of Chief Mhlabunzima, who was a witness at the inquest into the Chief’s death, is killed in the Natal Midlands.

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Israel lifts sanctions but retains a ban on new arms contracts with SA.

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The United Democratic Front (UDF), having decided in March 1991 that the organisation should disband, holds its final meeting i

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Twenty-four residents are killed in a pre-dawn attack on Crossroads squatter camp.

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President Pieter Willem Botha resigns as South Africa’s State President.

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City Press reports that Wonke Maqubela and Neliswa Dyandyi, accused in a necklace trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape.

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Nelson Mandela is admitted to the Tygerberg hospital, suffering from a lung ailment, later diagnosed as tuberculosis.

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Reverend Allan Hendricks, a cabinet minister, resigns from government.

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Co-operation and Development Minister, Piet Koornhof, states that uncontrolled squatting cannot be tolerated, and will not be a

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World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, Geneva, starts.

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The Afrikaanse Taalmuseum, also known as the Gideon Malherbe Museum in Pastorie Avenue, Paarl,is officially opened.

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Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd, SA trade unionist who also played a role internationally, dies in Tonbridge, London, England.

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A sharp increase in defence expenditure is announced.

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Over 200 students at the University of Cape Town embark on a “sit in” to protest against government intervention that forced th

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Bosman de Kock (45), director of PACT for eight months, dies.

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Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did a lot of research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris.

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Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was

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UN peace-keeping forces finally replace Belgian troops in the Republic of Congo.

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The first countrywide association for Afrikaans students, the Afrikaanse Studentebond (ASB), is founded on initiative of the st

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WW 2: Japan surrenders unconditionally, bringing to an end a war in which millions of people, and many South Africans, were kil

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The SA rugby team loses the first test in Wellington against New Zealand 7-13.

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Jack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best-known plastic and reconstruction surgeons, is born in Cape Town.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer snipers suddenly open fire on the massed troops of the Canadians of Strathcona’s Horse, the first to ent

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General S.F. Oosthuizen dies of wounds received at Dwarsvlei on 11-07-1900.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: End of the ‘first De Wet hunt’. De Wet’s entire force crosses the unoccupied Olifants Nek Pass near Rusten

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The SA rugby team wins their last Tri-Nations match of the season against Australia 10-9 in Newlands, Cape Town.

The first branch of the Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging is founded in Soweto, with Elliot Mashinini as chairman.

In Kenya 200 raiders attacks the police station in Likoni, Mombasa. Prisoners are freed; six police officers and seven civilian

The SA rugby team loses the second test against Australia 20-28 in Brisbane.

Florence Tshuku and her children Lundi, Mncedisi, Abigail and Edward Gebe, are killed when their home is attacked and burnt.

The chauffeur of Chief Mhlabunzima, who was a witness at the inquest into the Chief’s death, is killed in the Natal Midlands.

Israel lifts sanctions but retains a ban on new arms contracts with SA.

The United Democratic Front (UDF), having decided in March 1991 that the organisation should disband, holds its final meeting i

Twenty-four residents are killed in a pre-dawn attack on Crossroads squatter camp.

President Pieter Willem Botha resigns as South Africa’s State President.

City Press reports that Wonke Maqubela and Neliswa Dyandyi, accused in a necklace trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape.

Nelson Mandela is admitted to the Tygerberg hospital, suffering from a lung ailment, later diagnosed as tuberculosis.

Reverend Allan Hendricks, a cabinet minister, resigns from government.

Co-operation and Development Minister, Piet Koornhof, states that uncontrolled squatting cannot be tolerated, and will not be a

World Conference to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination, Geneva, starts.

The Afrikaanse Taalmuseum, also known as the Gideon Malherbe Museum in Pastorie Avenue, Paarl,is officially opened.

Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd, SA trade unionist who also played a role internationally, dies in Tonbridge, London, England.

A sharp increase in defence expenditure is announced.

Over 200 students at the University of Cape Town embark on a “sit in” to protest against government intervention that forced th

Bosman de Kock (45), director of PACT for eight months, dies.

Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did a lot of research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris.

Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was

UN peace-keeping forces finally replace Belgian troops in the Republic of Congo.

The first countrywide association for Afrikaans students, the Afrikaanse Studentebond (ASB), is founded on initiative of the st

WW 2: Japan surrenders unconditionally, bringing to an end a war in which millions of people, and many South Africans, were kil

The SA rugby team loses the first test in Wellington against New Zealand 7-13.

Jack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best-known plastic and reconstruction surgeons, is born in Cape Town.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer snipers suddenly open fire on the massed troops of the Canadians of Strathcona’s Horse, the first to ent

Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General S.F. Oosthuizen dies of wounds received at Dwarsvlei on 11-07-1900.

Anglo-Boer War 2: End of the ‘first De Wet hunt’. De Wet’s entire force crosses the unoccupied Olifants Nek Pass near Rusten