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Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Michael Ramsey’s visit to South Africa, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishm
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Bonie Mayvee Ntshalintshali, SA artist, is born on the farm ‘Ardmore’ in the Winterton district, Drakensberg area, Natal. (Joha
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Ben Bella is moved to a French hospital after eleven days of hunger strike in Algiers.
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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.
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Seretse Khama is asked to renounce his chieftaincy of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (Botswana), by the British colonial g
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George Hobson (55), SA author of mainly animal stories, dies in Cape Town. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad
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Initial experiments on the body of Egyptian King Tutankhamen reveals him to be a fifteen year old boy.
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Diamonds are discovered south of Port Nolloth. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria News, 13 November
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Abraham Fischer (63), premier of the Orange Free State Colony (1907), dies in Cape Town.
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British deputy commissioner Jenner is murdered during a native uprising in British Somaliland.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Generals Piet Joubert and Louis Botha cross the Tugela River and head down the railway line to Pietermaritzbu
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The British flag is hoisted at St Lucia, Natal north coast. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria News, 13 November.
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Barend Cilliers, politician and senator from 1935-1947, is born in Senekal, OFS.
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The first ripe cherry is picked in the gardens of the Dutch East India Company in Cape Town. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria News,
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The 150th celebration of the founding of Pretoria (on 16 November 1855) is celebrated by more than 7 000 mainly Afrikaans-speak
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The University of Stellenbosch alumni decide not to ask for a review of the decision to confer an honorary doctorate on Bram Fi
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The funeral of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, attended by President Mbeki and other world leaders, starts at a military b
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Britain ends arm sales to Nigeria.
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The SA rugby team plays for the first time against Italy and win the match in Rome 40-21.
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SA signs agreement with Romania for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes
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Five Germans and two Egyptians are wounded when Islamic militants fire on them in an attempt to cripple Egypt’s tourist industr
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Prof. Hlalanathi Sibankulu, ANC regional executive committee member, is found dead in his car in Madadeni, Natal.
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President F.W. de Klerk spells out a government timetable for transition to multiracial democracy. All-race elections will take
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SA signs agreement with Venda concerning formal school and Technical College instructional programmes and the performance by th
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SA signs agreement with Bophuthatswana concerning formal school Technikon instructional programmes and the performance by the C
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Over 600 people killed in Liberia in an unsuccessful military coup against President Samuel Doe, led by former Brigadier-Genera
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The Minister of (Black) Education and Training announces that compulsory education for Black children will be introduced in sta
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The Minister for Coloured Relations, S.J.M. Steyn, states that no elections are planned after the current five-year term of the
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Four other members of the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council resign. This is seen as the first step in the destruction of
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