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Thirty-four schools run for the Kikuyu tribe are closed as punishment for suspected involvement in the continuing Mau Mau rebel
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Gert Potgieter, SA singer who was killed in a car accident in 1977, is born.
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Major Friedrich W.R. Albrecht (78), founder of the OFS State Artillery, dies in Bloemfontein.
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Boutros Boutros Ghali, secretary-general of the United Nations, is born in Egypt.
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Jan Sebastian Rabie, well-known SA author, is born near George.
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Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts, (Field Marshall Earl Roberts of Khartoum) commander-in-chief of the British forces during Anglo-
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Joost de Blank, archbishop of Cape Town and champion against apartheid, is born in the Netherlands.
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King Cenric, a Norwegian ship of 1 519 tons, carrying a cargo of wood, is wrecked near Diaz Beach, Mossel Bay.
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Reuben Tholakele (Thola) Caluza, Zulu composer, choirmaster and businessman is born in Siyamu, Kwa Caluza, Edenvale, near Piete
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Anglo-Portuguese agreement on Zambezi and Congo grants Britain control of lower Zambezi and colonising rights up to the Congo.
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The first golf club in SA, the Cape Golf Club (later the Royal Cape Golf Club), is established.
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President Thomas François Burgers issues a proclamation prohibiting gambling.
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The British Colonial Secretary addresses a dispatch that the Queen has approved a Royal Charter forming the British South Afric
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The Rev. Francis Owen (52), founder of a mission station in Zululand, secretary of Dingane and eyewitness to the killing of Pie
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President Thabo Mbeki talks with Armando Guebuza, his Mozambican counterpart, to discuss the status of bilateral political and
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South African swimmers have put South Africa first at this stage in the Swimming World Cup in Durban, after winning twelve meda
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All South Africans will have access to clean running water by 2008, says Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Buyelwa Sonjica.
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Breyton Paulse makes history by playing in his fiftieth Test for the Boks, a record for a Springbok wing in the Test against Ir
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Zimbabwe’s Minister of Agriculture Kumbirai Kangai issues orders for the seizure of 841 White-owned farms as part of the govern
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The SA rugby team beats Argentine 52-23 in the second test in Buenos Aires and wins the series 2-0.
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The away match between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Zambia, ends in a tie with 1 goal scored by each team.
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Signs memorandum of agreement for the supply of water between the governments of Namibia and South Africa.
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The Harms Commission report criticises the army and police counter-insurgency units, but has no evidence that police operated d
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Mitchell’s Plain policeman Lieutenant Gregory Rockman is suspended after his arrest for allegedly staging an illegal protest. (
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The Namibian election ends, following five days of voting. Three days after the five-day polling period (7-11 November) ended,
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South Africa’s economy has been feeling the impact of some strong economic sanctions and other anti-apartheid measures, begun t
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Police in Pabelello (northern Cape) fire teargas to break up a meeting to protest against municipal rent increases. A crowd lat
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South Africa’s Medical Association agrees to ask its ethical committee to conduct a public investigation into issues raised by
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The Anglican Bishop of Lesotho, the Rev. Desmond Tutu, announces that he is giving up his current post to become Secretary-Gene
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