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Community and sports leader Hassan Howa dies. The government posthumously bestowed a presidential medal on him in 1998.

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Libya refuses to hand over the accused in the Lockerbie air disaster.

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Following a twelve-hour meeting in Cape Town between President de Klerk and ANC Deputy-President Nelson Mandela, they announce

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African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets the world’s press at the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Tow

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The Vatican issues a report, &quot;The Church and Racism&quot;, in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic fo

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The student activists Porta Shabangu, Thabo Mohale and Derrick Mashobane are ambushed and shot in Swaziland by a Vlakplaas divi

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Seventy-six people are injured in an explosion at the offices of the Administration Board of the Free State in Bloemfontein.

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The Quail Commission, who examined the question of the feasibility of independence of the Ciskei at the request of the Ciskei g

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Nationalist guerrillas in Rhodesia shoot down an Air Rhodesia airliner with a missile, killing fifty-nine people.

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The State Security Council (SSC) approves guidelines for the conducting of military operations against liberation movements in

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The report of the Snyman Commission into the disturbances on the campus of the University of the North at Turfloop, finds that

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Dr Albertus Daniel Keet (83), poet of the first Afrikaans love poems, dies in Senekal, Orange Free State.

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Israeli air raid on scrap metal plant in Egypt kills seventy civilians.

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A proclamation applies a section of the Group Areas Act to all public places of recreation, including sporting events, theatres

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The Rev. T.C. Esterhuysen (Oom Essie, 66), missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church, dies.

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Britain and Egypt sign new treaty, according to which Sudan is to have independence within three years.

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Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, is freed from prison.

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leader, Hassan el Banna, is shot to death – probably by the Egyptian government’s security branch.

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The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference decides to prepare to resist. It also decides to send delegations to India,

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Tshikudo Paul Tavhana (also Thavhana), S.A carver and sculptor, is born in Dzanani, Limpopo.

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Howard Carter examines the remains of Tutankamen when the lid of the sarcophagus is lifted for the first time in 3,300 years.

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German East Africa Company is chartered.

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The Rev. Frans Lion Cachet founds Ermelo.

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A second treaty is signed for the establishment of the border between the Orange Free State and Basutoland.

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Sir Thomas Cullinan, digger and founder of the Premier diamond company, is born.

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The country’s first art show opens in Cape Town, with some 500 items on exhibit.

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Hintsa, chief of the Xhosa, is shot, while allegedly trying to escape from the British forces at the start of the 6th frontier

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The Dutch East India Company issues an order that the statutes of India are to be followed strictly in the Cape.

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South Africa’s acclaimed Soweto Gospel Choir under direction of David Mulovhedzi and Beverly Bryer win in the Best Traditiona

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President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech coincides with another great moment in South Africa’s history the freeing of

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Community and sports leader Hassan Howa dies. The government posthumously bestowed a presidential medal on him in 1998.

Libya refuses to hand over the accused in the Lockerbie air disaster.

Following a twelve-hour meeting in Cape Town between President de Klerk and ANC Deputy-President Nelson Mandela, they announce

African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets the world’s press at the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Tow

The Vatican issues a report, &amp;quot;The Church and Racism&amp;quot;, in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic fo

The student activists Porta Shabangu, Thabo Mohale and Derrick Mashobane are ambushed and shot in Swaziland by a Vlakplaas divi

Seventy-six people are injured in an explosion at the offices of the Administration Board of the Free State in Bloemfontein.

The Quail Commission, who examined the question of the feasibility of independence of the Ciskei at the request of the Ciskei g

Nationalist guerrillas in Rhodesia shoot down an Air Rhodesia airliner with a missile, killing fifty-nine people.

The State Security Council (SSC) approves guidelines for the conducting of military operations against liberation movements in

The report of the Snyman Commission into the disturbances on the campus of the University of the North at Turfloop, finds that

Dr Albertus Daniel Keet (83), poet of the first Afrikaans love poems, dies in Senekal, Orange Free State.

Israeli air raid on scrap metal plant in Egypt kills seventy civilians.

A proclamation applies a section of the Group Areas Act to all public places of recreation, including sporting events, theatres

The Rev. T.C. Esterhuysen (Oom Essie, 66), missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church, dies.

Britain and Egypt sign new treaty, according to which Sudan is to have independence within three years.

Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, is freed from prison.

leader, Hassan el Banna, is shot to death – probably by the Egyptian government’s security branch.

The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference decides to prepare to resist. It also decides to send delegations to India,

Tshikudo Paul Tavhana (also Thavhana), S.A carver and sculptor, is born in Dzanani, Limpopo.

Howard Carter examines the remains of Tutankamen when the lid of the sarcophagus is lifted for the first time in 3,300 years.

German East Africa Company is chartered.

The Rev. Frans Lion Cachet founds Ermelo.

A second treaty is signed for the establishment of the border between the Orange Free State and Basutoland.

Sir Thomas Cullinan, digger and founder of the Premier diamond company, is born.

The country’s first art show opens in Cape Town, with some 500 items on exhibit.

Hintsa, chief of the Xhosa, is shot, while allegedly trying to escape from the British forces at the start of the 6th frontier

The Dutch East India Company issues an order that the statutes of India are to be followed strictly in the Cape.

South Africa’s acclaimed Soweto Gospel Choir under direction of David Mulovhedzi and Beverly Bryer win in the Best Traditiona

President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation speech coincides with another great moment in South Africa’s history the freeing of

The Vatican issues a report, "The Church and Racism", in which apartheid is condemned as the most evil, systematic fo