Events

• 30 January - The General Assembly of the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policy
• 16 December - The 45th Annual Conference of the African National Congress
  African National Congress
  The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
  
   is held in Orlando, Johannesburg
  Johannesburg
  Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
  
  
• United States
  United States
  The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
  
   and South Africa
  South Africa
  The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
  
   sign a nuclear cooperation agreement. In terms of this agreement, the United States provided South Africa with a nuclear research reactor, trained additional scientists and reactor technicians and supplied enriched uranium as fuel

Deaths

• 10 December - James Stevenson-Hamilton
  James Stevenson-Hamilton
  Colonel James Stevenson-HamiltonFather of the Kruger National Park Parks BoardLife before the Sabie Game reserve:James Stevenson-Hamilton was born the eldest of nine children in Scotland on the 2nd of October 1876. Being first born he was the legal heir to their family title and home at Fairholm,...
  
  , the first warden of the Kruger National Park
  Kruger National Park
  Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers and extends from north to south and from east to west.To the west and south of the Kruger National Park are the two South African provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga. In the north is Zimbabwe, and to the east is...
  
  , dies