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Paul Regan Adams, South African cricket player, is born.

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The Ruth Prowse Art Centre is opened in The Retreat as an art and cultural centre with artist Erik Laubscher as first head.

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The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, is detained by the police, accused of subversi

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It is reported in London that the British government will not issue a permit for the export of the ground-to-air missiles South

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Army mutiny in Tanganyika over pay is put down with British assistance.

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South Africa denies port facilities to Indian vessels in retaliation for Indian sanctions against South Africa.

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Fort Klapperkop and Fort Skanskop, Pretoria, are opened to the public.

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South African athlete Paul Harwood Nash is born in London. He was viewed at one time as the fastest White athlete in the world.

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Shanmugam Manickam, group executive, Strategic Planning, Telkom (1997-) is born. Formerly he occupied various important telecom

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King Farouk is declared the spiritual leader, or Caliph, of Islam.

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Herero Revolt: A repair team begins to repair the destroyed state railway line between Waldau and Karibib. With the outbreak of

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Anglo-Boer War 2: In the Battle of Tabanyama, Natal front, a group of Indian stretcher bearers, among whom the young Durban att

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British troops under Lord Chelmsford pitch their camp on the slopes of Isandhlawana, where Zulu warriors attack them two days l

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Xhosa warriors overrun the Eastern Cape frontier.

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A mass meeting in Cape Town requests British government to recognise British settlement in Natal.

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Gen. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, politician and Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Transvaal during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born

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Notorious pirate Captain William Kidd is reported off Cape Town.

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The Dageraad, with salvaged treasure from the Gouden Buis, which had run ashore at St Helena Bay, is wrecked on the reefs off R

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The Sudanese government and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, the main rebel group involved in the country’s 19-year-old c

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The Samora Machel Monument is unveiled in Mbuzini, Mpumalanga.

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At least twenty-two people are killed and 4000 are rendered homeless by a devastating storm in Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape.

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Collen Chauke, South Africa’s most wanted suspect in a cash-in-transit heist, is captured in Nelspruit

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A powerful car bomb explodes outside a cafe in downtown Algiers, killing at least twenty people and wounding sixty others hours

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President Nelson Mandela holds meetings with Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and later declares he will initiate a round of urgen

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Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had gathered to express their d

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The Federal Republic of Germany has informed the Oslo-based World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with Sout

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Chris Heunis, Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, is appointed Acting State President by President P.W. Botha

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The Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court in Pretoria orders the KwaNdebele police to stop assaulting two emergenc

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The Stander gang robs three banks in less than an hour in the Johannesburg city centre.

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In a referendum organised by King William’s Town municipality, the voting is overwhelmingly against incorporation into the Cisk

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Paul Regan Adams, South African cricket player, is born.

The Ruth Prowse Art Centre is opened in The Retreat as an art and cultural centre with artist Erik Laubscher as first head.

The Anglican Dean of Johannesburg, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, is detained by the police, accused of subversi

It is reported in London that the British government will not issue a permit for the export of the ground-to-air missiles South

Army mutiny in Tanganyika over pay is put down with British assistance.

South Africa denies port facilities to Indian vessels in retaliation for Indian sanctions against South Africa.

Fort Klapperkop and Fort Skanskop, Pretoria, are opened to the public.

South African athlete Paul Harwood Nash is born in London. He was viewed at one time as the fastest White athlete in the world.

Shanmugam Manickam, group executive, Strategic Planning, Telkom (1997-) is born. Formerly he occupied various important telecom

King Farouk is declared the spiritual leader, or Caliph, of Islam.

Herero Revolt: A repair team begins to repair the destroyed state railway line between Waldau and Karibib. With the outbreak of

Anglo-Boer War 2: In the Battle of Tabanyama, Natal front, a group of Indian stretcher bearers, among whom the young Durban att

British troops under Lord Chelmsford pitch their camp on the slopes of Isandhlawana, where Zulu warriors attack them two days l

Xhosa warriors overrun the Eastern Cape frontier.

A mass meeting in Cape Town requests British government to recognise British settlement in Natal.

Gen. Petrus Jacobus Joubert, politician and Commander-in-Chief of the forces of the Transvaal during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born

Notorious pirate Captain William Kidd is reported off Cape Town.

The Dageraad, with salvaged treasure from the Gouden Buis, which had run ashore at St Helena Bay, is wrecked on the reefs off R

The Sudanese government and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, the main rebel group involved in the country’s 19-year-old c

The Samora Machel Monument is unveiled in Mbuzini, Mpumalanga.

At least twenty-two people are killed and 4000 are rendered homeless by a devastating storm in Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape.

Collen Chauke, South Africa’s most wanted suspect in a cash-in-transit heist, is captured in Nelspruit

A powerful car bomb explodes outside a cafe in downtown Algiers, killing at least twenty people and wounding sixty others hours

President Nelson Mandela holds meetings with Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and later declares he will initiate a round of urgen

Police baton-charge and teargas protesters at Jan Smuts Airport in Johannesburg. The protesters had gathered to express their d

The Federal Republic of Germany has informed the Oslo-based World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with Sout

Chris Heunis, Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, is appointed Acting State President by President P.W. Botha

The Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Court in Pretoria orders the KwaNdebele police to stop assaulting two emergenc

The Stander gang robs three banks in less than an hour in the Johannesburg city centre.

In a referendum organised by King William’s Town municipality, the voting is overwhelmingly against incorporation into the Cisk