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The cricket tour by Mike Gatting’s England team is curtailed by four matches, including the second Test, due to pressure from t

This day in history

The house of exile Nat Serache in Botswana is blown up in a cross-border operation.

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André Stander, SA bank robber is killed in a shootout in the US.

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15,000 people attend Neil Aggett’s funeral in Johannesburg.

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General Murtula Ramat Muhammed, Nigerian head of state since a bloodless coup in 1975, is assassinated during a failed military

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The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) commences with lectures in a temporary hall in Braamfontein.

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The unofficial Dutch mission, under Professor W.G. de Gaay Fortman, coming to South Africa to discuss apartheid, is cancelled.

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Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot trying to escape from prison.

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UN security council urges use of force to prevent civil war in the Congo.

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The first French atom bomb is tested in the Sahara desert.

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Prof Ahmed Cassim Bawa, academic, director of several companies and winner of scholarships and awards, is born.

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WW2: The 12th African Division, with 1st SA Infantry Brigade in command, captures Kismayu in Somaliland.

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The theological seminary of the Reformed Church is opened in Potchefstroom with Jan Lion Cachet as professor.

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Lord Kitchener meets with Gen. Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacc

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Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, brother of Ernest (of the South African Diamond Corporation), is born in Germany.

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The railway line between Cape Town and Eerste River (34 km) is completed.

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The Rev. D. Wilcocks, lecturer at the Wellington Missionary Institute and clergyman in various places in SA, is born.

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The Anti-Convict Association in Cape Town dissolves as a result of an order-in-council rescinding the decision to make the Cape

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A 463-ton British wooden ship, Childe Herold, en route from Bombay to London and carrying more than 1300 pieces of ivory, is wr

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Marthinus A. Bergh leaves for the Netherlands to raise the grievances of the Burghers against the Cape government at the States

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An edict is issued in the Cape Colony forbidding any White person from settling beyond the Gamtoos River.

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Smallpox epidemic strikes the refreshment station at the Cape, after arriving with the crew on a Dutch ship. The disease wreaks

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John Lancaster leads first East India Company’s voyage from London.

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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Tunisia ends in a tie 2-2. .

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James Aubrey Polley (61), flamboyant former minister of the Methodist Church and anti-apartheid activist, dies. He was detained

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Zairian soldiers begin to police Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire as part of a UN peacekeeping operation.

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Nineteen political parties have registered for the forthcoming April 1994 general election.

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President Didier Ratsiraka of Madagascar is voted out after seventeen years in office.

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Exchange of notes with Namibia takes place. It concerns formal school and technical college instructional programmes and the pe

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The SA government and the ANC agree to a plan which will lead to Black majority rule by 1999. In 1994 a parliament of 400 m

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The cricket tour by Mike Gatting’s England team is curtailed by four matches, including the second Test, due to pressure from t

The house of exile Nat Serache in Botswana is blown up in a cross-border operation.

André Stander, SA bank robber is killed in a shootout in the US.

15,000 people attend Neil Aggett’s funeral in Johannesburg.

General Murtula Ramat Muhammed, Nigerian head of state since a bloodless coup in 1975, is assassinated during a failed military

The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) commences with lectures in a temporary hall in Braamfontein.

The unofficial Dutch mission, under Professor W.G. de Gaay Fortman, coming to South Africa to discuss apartheid, is cancelled.

Patrice Lumumba, former Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is shot trying to escape from prison.

UN security council urges use of force to prevent civil war in the Congo.

The first French atom bomb is tested in the Sahara desert.

Prof Ahmed Cassim Bawa, academic, director of several companies and winner of scholarships and awards, is born.

WW2: The 12th African Division, with 1st SA Infantry Brigade in command, captures Kismayu in Somaliland.

The theological seminary of the Reformed Church is opened in Potchefstroom with Jan Lion Cachet as professor.

Lord Kitchener meets with Gen. Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacc

Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, brother of Ernest (of the South African Diamond Corporation), is born in Germany.

The railway line between Cape Town and Eerste River (34 km) is completed.

The Rev. D. Wilcocks, lecturer at the Wellington Missionary Institute and clergyman in various places in SA, is born.

The Anti-Convict Association in Cape Town dissolves as a result of an order-in-council rescinding the decision to make the Cape

A 463-ton British wooden ship, Childe Herold, en route from Bombay to London and carrying more than 1300 pieces of ivory, is wr

Marthinus A. Bergh leaves for the Netherlands to raise the grievances of the Burghers against the Cape government at the States

An edict is issued in the Cape Colony forbidding any White person from settling beyond the Gamtoos River.

Smallpox epidemic strikes the refreshment station at the Cape, after arriving with the crew on a Dutch ship. The disease wreaks

John Lancaster leads first East India Company’s voyage from London.

The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Tunisia ends in a tie 2-2. .

James Aubrey Polley (61), flamboyant former minister of the Methodist Church and anti-apartheid activist, dies. He was detained

Zairian soldiers begin to police Rwandan refugee camps in Zaire as part of a UN peacekeeping operation.

Nineteen political parties have registered for the forthcoming April 1994 general election.

President Didier Ratsiraka of Madagascar is voted out after seventeen years in office.

Exchange of notes with Namibia takes place. It concerns formal school and technical college instructional programmes and the pe

The SA government and the ANC agree to a plan which will lead to Black majority rule by 1999. In 1994 a parliament of 400 m