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Nigerian author Ken Saro-Wiwa is executed.
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SA signs bilateral air transport agreement with Rwanda.
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The Goldstone Commission raids offices of the SADF’s Directorate.
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SA signs agreement with Bophuthatswana regarding social pensions, grants and allowances.
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SA signs memorandum of understanding on multiple co-operation with Israel.
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Dr C.P. Mulder, resigned Minister of Plural Relations and Development, relinquishes his leadership of the National Party in the
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The government adopts powers enabling the Minister of Economic Affairs to compel companies to produce strategic and military go
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Angola gains independence from the colonial ruler Portugal with Dr Agostinho Neto as president and is known as the People’s Rep
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State President, Dr. N. Diederichs, dismisses Sonny Leon as Executive Chairman of the Coloured People’s Representative Council
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Egypt and Israel sign a cease-fire agreement sponsored by the United States, and begin discussions to carry out the pact
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The Progressive Party, 9-11 November, supports the idea of a federation of autonomous states in Southern Africa.
EventJoseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane, leader of the St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove) with support in rural areas
Joseph Engenas Matlhakanye Lekganyane, leader of the St Engenas Zion Christian Church (the Dove) with support in rural areas, dies in Warmberg, Pietersburg…
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Abram Fischer, Q.C. is re-arrested in Johannesburg.
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Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, issues a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Britain says the regime is illegal.
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Michael Henry Keith (Mike) Edwards, SA sculptor, is born in Port Elizabeth.
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Percy Albert Wagner (44), German trained SA geologist, dies in Johannesburg.
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P. K. van der Bijl, Rhodesian parliamentarian and minister, is born.
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World War 1 ends with Germany and the Allies signing an armistice in a railroad car at Compiegne, France. “At the 11th hour of
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Ferrar Reginald Mostyn Cleaver, barrister of English descent who identified himself completely with the cause of the ZAR and wh
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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader who made up his own birth date because, according to him, the corr
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant J.H. Visser with 200 men attacks Kuruman, defended by only 35 members of the Cape Police, 33 local
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Professor Gerrit Dekker, head of the department of Afrikaans-Nederlands of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Ed
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British Bechuanaland is annexed to Cape Colony.
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Gen. P.A. Cronjé and 200 burgers declare the auction of a wagon of Piet Bezuidenhout in Potchefstroom, to pay arrear tax
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Leading South African cartoonist Daniël Cornelis Boonzaaier is born at Patatsrivier near Carnarvon in the Cape Province. He be
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Andries Pretorius arrives at the Voortrekker laagers on the banks of the Klein-Tugela in reply to a plea for help against the Z
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Sir John Coode, SA harbour engineer who designed the seaward defences of Table Bay, is born in Bodmin, Cornwallis, England.
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John William Burchell arrives in England from an expedition to SA and St Helena, with 60 000 natural-historical samples and 500
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Dr Carl Thunberg, SA explorer, is born in Jonkoping, Sweden.
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