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A 32-year-old nurse from Matikwane Hospital near Bushbuckridge, who allegedly injected her stepson with HIV contaminated blood,

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Ernie Els wins the Alfred Dunhill PGA tournament on the Houghton Club golf course in Johannesburg.

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In a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) revelation, General Georg Meiring is implicated with more than sixty officers an

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Vrye Weekblad closes after it is bankrupted by legal costs.

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Mandela declares in Lusaka that the ANC will take power by force if it fails to reach agreement with the government.

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A twelve week strike by some 22 000 members of South African Transport Services

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Mr Sol Kerzner admits in an affidavit to the Harms Commission that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Mat

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Bus drivers, members of the Transport and General Workers’ Union (TGWU) a COSATO affiliate, strike because of lack of protectio

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Percy Qoboza, well-known anti-apartheid journalist and editor of The World newspaper, dies in Johannesburg on his fiftieth birt

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Nigeria expels 2 million illegal aliens, mostly Ghanaians.

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In Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), eight ANC members are executed after being convicted on the charge of urban ter

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Leader of the Opposition, Sir De Villiers Graaff, demands a judicial inquiry into the activities of the Broederbond, and demand

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The Department of Justice announces that the charges against A.K. Ganyile have been dropped, the government regrets the inciden

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Patrice Lumumba, first and only elected Prime Minister of Congo, is murdered. The killing of Lumumba remained a secret for year

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SA joins the World Meteorological Organization, created to facilitate international cooperation in the establishment of meteo

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Federal State of Mali is formed by union of Republics of Senegal and French Sudan.

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Alexander Erwin, Minister of Public Enterprises of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.

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Percy Peter Qoboza, editor of The World, named one of fifty &quot;world press freedom heroes&quot; by the International Press I

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Albert Nzula, teacher, journalist and leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), who left SA to study in Moscow in 1

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A poor boy, Jacobus Jonker, discovers a 726 (or 500?) carats diamond, the Jonker Diamond, on the farm Elandsfontein near Pretor

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In the first incident to hint that grave trouble was looming in Natal, culminating in the Bambatha rebellion, Henry Smith, an U

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The Johannesburg Meteorological Observatory opens with Robert Innes as first director.

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Henry Smith, an Umlaas Road farmer and popular master, accompanies his workers to Camperdown to pay their taxes. That evening,

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Twenty-eight people drown when a storm hits Bloemfontein.

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In the desperate hand to hand Battle of Abu Klea, the British under Gen. Sir Herbert Stewart repulse the Sudanese Camel Corp of

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On the afternoon of 17 January 1879 the Zulu king Cetshwayo (Cetewayo) addresses 20 000 of his warriors at the great military k

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The Sand River Convention, under which Britain renounces all claims to authority beyond the Vaal River, is signed. This lays

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The Voortrekkers under Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit Maritz defeat the Ndebele under Mzilikazi at Mosega, near the present Zeeru

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