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20 February 1940

Abdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town

https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/population-registration-bill-read-first-time

20 February 1950

The Population Registration Bill is read for the first time

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20 February 1946

A Day of Prayer Called by the NIC

20 February 1970

The Springbok rugby team receives the State President Sports Award

20 February 1981

Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981

20 February 1984

SA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies

20 February 1993

President F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes

20 February 1971

Joost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born

20 February 1925

Justin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town

20 February 2002

Hundreds die in a train fire in Egypt

20 February 1992

De Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms