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A combined force of South African Defence Force troops and police seal off the townships of Sebokeng, Sharpeville and Boipatong
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Percy Albert Wagner, economic geologist and author of articles on diamonds, iron, tin, platinum and the Bushveld Igneous Comple
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William Waldegrave Palmer Selbourne, British high commissioner in SA after Lord Milner, and governor of the Transvaal and Orang
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Ex-burgher councillor Jacobus van Reenen, ex-burgher Lieutenant Barend Jacob Artoys and burghers Nicolaas Godfried Heyns and Ti
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Phillip Tobias, professor emeritus of anatomy and human biology at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School and South
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Lord William Selbourne, British high commissioner in South Africa and governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies, open
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Gen. Louis Botha, soldier and statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, dies in Pretoria.
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Treaty ends British occupation of Egypt, except Suez Canal zone, and Britain and Egypt form alliance for twenty years.
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Johann Rupert, chairperson of Richemont and Remgro and prominent business leader, lashes out at a meeting in Cape Town against
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A bilateral summit between delegations of the ANC and the South African Government, led respectively by Nelson Mandela and Pres
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James (Sofasonke – meaning ‘We shall all die’) Mpanza, politician and founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for bette
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Political assassinations: Nhlanhla Makhanya (14), Rev. Mntambo, his son and an employee, Mr Mtshali, Mr Ngenya and Siyabonga Go
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu and religious leaders from South Africa’s Hindu and Muslim communities hold talks with the African Nati
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The Prins Albert is wrecked in a storm near Plettenberg Bay. The cargo and all on board and are rescued.
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Dr Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (48), philologist and pioneer in Bushman (San) and Bantu research, dies in Cape Town.
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Jack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best-known plastic and reconstruction surgeons, is born in Cape Town.
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Umkhonto and ZAPU guerrillas engaged Rhodesian forces in Wankie (now Hwange) Game Reserve, near border of Zambia and Botswana.
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The minister of justice, police and prisons receives a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko’s death and a post-mort
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Stoffel Botha (68), Minister of Interior Affairs and Post and Telecommunication in the previous government, dies in Howick of h
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William H. Bell (Daddy Bell) (72), SA musician and composer of three symphonies and two operas, dies in Gordon’s Bay.
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Christina Khabe, IFP member and mother of a witness at the Goldstone Commission, is attacked and killed at her home.
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Myrna Blumberg, correspondent for the New York Post and the London Daily Herald in SA, is detained and restricted.
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Christina Khabe, IFP member and mother of a witness at the Goldstone Commission, is attacked and killed at her home.
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Speaking before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee for a second time, F.W. de Klerk repeats his assertion that murder and t
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Speaking before the Truth and Reconciliation Committee for a second time, F.W. de Klerk repeats his assertion that murder and t
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Britain proclaims sovereignty and dominion over Ichaboe and adjacent islands off the Namibian coast, now known as the Offshore
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Cythna Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist who was commemorated in the botanical names Aloe lettae and Crassula lettae and autho
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Hendrika (Rikie) Postma, author of chiefly Bible stories and other stories for children and prominent supporter of the Ossewa-t
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Myrna Blumberg, correspondent for the New York Post and the London Daily Herald in SA, is detained and restricted.
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