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Paul Kruger

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Woolf Joel is killed due to his refusal to kidnap President Paul Kruger

Inaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions

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Inaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)

Flag of the Batavian Republic

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Britain returns the Cape to the Netherlands and the flag of the Batavian Republic is hoisted on the Castle

Marks Maponyane

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Marks Maponyane, former Bafana Bafana striker, is born in Meadowlands, Soweto

Kwame Nkrumah

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Kwame Nkrumah is released from jail

Sophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto

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Sophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto

Holimisa

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Political Organisations are unbanned in Transkei

Macmillan

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Macmillan’s 'winds of change’ speech in Parliament

Nelson Mandela, Photographer: Unknown

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President P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison