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President Thabo Mbeki receives an Honorary Doctorate from the Rand Afrikaans University.

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Demonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho to protest election results, while a week-old mutiny by a

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Abraham Geldenhuys (66), former Springbok wrestler, dies in Bellville of lung cancer.

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A fistfight between parliamentarians of the ANC and National Party erupts in the parliament in Cape Town. Johnny de Lange of th

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The South African Foreign Affairs Department denies Iranian media reports that the government has endorsed Iran’s human rights

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The Labour Party decides to disband after twenty-nine years in existence.

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Ten people die in Umtata, Transkei when ANC slogan chanters storm them in a well-orchestrated attack on stock thieves.

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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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Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat and US President Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David accord, laying the groundwork for a permanent pea

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The Prime Minister and Chief Kaiser Matanzima sign a total of sixty-five documents concerning the establishment of an independe

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Cyprian Bhekuzulu Nyangayezizwe KaDinuzulu, fourth son of Solomon KaDinuzulu and Paramount Chief of the Zulus for twenty years,

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Prime Minister Vorster criticises the decision to include a Coloured cricketer, Basil d’Oliveira, in the British MCC team to to

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Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, dies in Kimberl

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Frances Beatrice Marshoff, Premier of Free State Province since 22 April 2004, is born.

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The SA rugby team beats New Zealand 11-8 in Port Elizabeth and wins the series 4-0.

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Maria Helena Gertruida Christina Lee (49) is executed for the murder on her lover, Alwyn Smith.

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Roy Martin Macnab, writer, poet and former cultural attaché in London, is born in Durban.

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António Agostinho Neto, first president of Angola, is born in the town of Icolo e Bengo in Angola.

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The match between the rugby teams of SA and New Zealand ends in a draw with no points being scored.

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SA accepts the German South West Africa mandate.

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Ernest George Bock, SA cricket player in one test match (1935/1936), is born in Kimberley.

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Joseph Chamberlain, British colonial secretary who played an important role in Britain’s decisions on South Africa and other Br

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant-General Louis Botha and General Cheere Emmett join forces to invade Natal.

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Nicholaas (Nicolaas) Waterboer, Griqua chief of Griquatown and eldest son of Andries Waterboer and his wife Gertruida Pienaar,

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Samuel Bonnin Hobson, school inspector of the Cape Province and co-author with his brother, G.C. Hobson, of animal stories, is

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Joanna Everarda (Jo) Fourie, one of the most avid collectors of Afrikaans folk music (Boeremusiek), is born.

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The Alfred Dock in Table Bay is officially opened by Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom

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About 2 000 slave owners meet in Cape Town to complain against new slave regulations to be implemented at the Cape, claiming th

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Sir Donald Currie, ship magnate and donor of the Currie Cups for rugby and cricket, is born in Greenock, Scotland.

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Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first president of the Transvaal elected in 1857 and founder of Pretoria, is born on the farm Preto

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President Thabo Mbeki receives an Honorary Doctorate from the Rand Afrikaans University.

Demonstrators close down businesses and government offices in Lesotho to protest election results, while a week-old mutiny by a

Abraham Geldenhuys (66), former Springbok wrestler, dies in Bellville of lung cancer.

A fistfight between parliamentarians of the ANC and National Party erupts in the parliament in Cape Town. Johnny de Lange of th

The South African Foreign Affairs Department denies Iranian media reports that the government has endorsed Iran’s human rights

The Labour Party decides to disband after twenty-nine years in existence.

Ten people die in Umtata, Transkei when ANC slogan chanters storm them in a well-orchestrated attack on stock thieves.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and religious leaders from South Africa’s Hindu and Muslim communities hold talks with the African Nati

Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat and US President Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David accord, laying the groundwork for a permanent pea

The Prime Minister and Chief Kaiser Matanzima sign a total of sixty-five documents concerning the establishment of an independe

Cyprian Bhekuzulu Nyangayezizwe KaDinuzulu, fourth son of Solomon KaDinuzulu and Paramount Chief of the Zulus for twenty years,

Prime Minister Vorster criticises the decision to include a Coloured cricketer, Basil d’Oliveira, in the British MCC team to to

Adolph Gysbert (Sailor) Malan, SA fighter pilot during WWII and later national president of the Torch Commando, dies in Kimberl

Frances Beatrice Marshoff, Premier of Free State Province since 22 April 2004, is born.

The SA rugby team beats New Zealand 11-8 in Port Elizabeth and wins the series 4-0.

Maria Helena Gertruida Christina Lee (49) is executed for the murder on her lover, Alwyn Smith.

Roy Martin Macnab, writer, poet and former cultural attaché in London, is born in Durban.

António Agostinho Neto, first president of Angola, is born in the town of Icolo e Bengo in Angola.

The match between the rugby teams of SA and New Zealand ends in a draw with no points being scored.

SA accepts the German South West Africa mandate.

Ernest George Bock, SA cricket player in one test match (1935/1936), is born in Kimberley.

Joseph Chamberlain, British colonial secretary who played an important role in Britain’s decisions on South Africa and other Br

Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant-General Louis Botha and General Cheere Emmett join forces to invade Natal.

Nicholaas (Nicolaas) Waterboer, Griqua chief of Griquatown and eldest son of Andries Waterboer and his wife Gertruida Pienaar,

Samuel Bonnin Hobson, school inspector of the Cape Province and co-author with his brother, G.C. Hobson, of animal stories, is

Joanna Everarda (Jo) Fourie, one of the most avid collectors of Afrikaans folk music (Boeremusiek), is born.

The Alfred Dock in Table Bay is officially opened by Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom

About 2 000 slave owners meet in Cape Town to complain against new slave regulations to be implemented at the Cape, claiming th

Sir Donald Currie, ship magnate and donor of the Currie Cups for rugby and cricket, is born in Greenock, Scotland.

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first president of the Transvaal elected in 1857 and founder of Pretoria, is born on the farm Preto