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Portrait of Piet Retief

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Piet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed

The morning after. The youth who was the target of a massacre in which twelve members of his family where shot dead. Security forces were implicated in the murders then dubbed the 'AK47 massacre'. This youth was killed several months later. KwaMakhuta. KwaZulu-Natal. 1987

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More than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre

Samora Machel

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The first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins

Captain William Kidd

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Notorious Pirate, Captain William Kidd, is reportedly sighted off the coast of Cape Town

South African parliament

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Parliament opens with the debate of no confidence on Government

Black Sash

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Maria Mary Burton, former national president of the Black Sash, is born

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South Africa approves the Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, dons the presidential sash with assistance from Liberia's Senior Ambassador-at-Large, George W. Wallace, Jr., during her inauguration ceremony at the Capitol Building in Monrovia, Liberia, January 16, 2006

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Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa

Sir John F.W. Herschel

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Sir John Herschel, British astronomer, arrives in Cape Town