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Lord Lugard, leading the expedition of the Royal Niger Company in West Africa, claims a protectorate over Nikki and Bussa.
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Lt Tommy Rose covers the distance between South Africa and England in six days, six hours and fifty-seven minutes in a record f
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South African riot police use tear gas and whips in Soweto as unrest continue. A sweeping ban on meetings critical of the Gover
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News SABC ‘should be hitting the panic button’ over Jimi Matthews’ resignation by Ndileka Lujabe (City Press), 27 June 2016
Jimi Matthews has been praised as “doing the right thing” following his resignation from the SABC today. Matthews, who was acting SABC chief executive,…
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Over 600 people killed in Liberia in an unsuccessful military coup against President Samuel Doe, led by former Brigadier-Genera
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Fourteen people die when a group of over 100 armed men, allegedly IFP members, attack residents, vehicles and houses in Gcilima
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Supporters of Ivory Coast’s president-elect and his political rival fight bloody clashes in Abidjan over a demand for new presi
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South African golfer Gary Player wins his second PGA Championship with a two-stroke victory over Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron.
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The Swaziland government welcomes South Africa’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claim
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Last British troops leave Suez Canal base, turning the waterway over to Egypt after operating it for seventy-four years.
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Joseph Kabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC. Kabila is the country’s first democratically elected president in over fo
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The bitter debate over the power of central government in relation to the provinces is reopened when the Constitutional Court r
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Some 6500 workers strike at Iscor’s Vanderbijlpark plant over management’s offer of a 34c-an-hour increase. The union is demand
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This Day reports that the debate over the Black economic empowerment (BEE) deal between Standard Bank and Liberty, and Tutuwa,
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Six pupils and teachers are killed and more than eighty injured when the taxi feud spills over to Katlehong schools.
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Publication of declaration for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African Political Prisoners signed by over 4,0
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The former United States of America (US) Ambassador to South Africa, Mr Cameron Hume, hands over specialised anti-terrorism equ
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TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph
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De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.
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The Cheetahs (Free State rugby team) scores a surprising victory over the Blue Bulls on Loftus Versveld, beating the Bulls 29-2
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Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), at a meeting attended by over 12 000 people.
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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow
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The separate Department of Social Welfare is created to take over the welfare functions of other state departments, a step advo
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A new UN force with a wider mandate takes over from the French-led force in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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A new UN force with a wider mandate takes over from the French-led force in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Confrontation between South Africa and Transkei over the deportation and return to Transkei of squatters from the Cape Town are
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR takes over control of the railway lines and workshops of the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg
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An alleged Soviet spy, Y.N. Loginov, who was arrested in 1967, is handed over to a non-communist country, West Germany.
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Dr. Eschel Rhoodie is extradited from France and handed over to the South African authorities. He appears briefly in Pretoria’s
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