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The International zone of Tangier is returned to Morocco.
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The International zone of Tangier is returned to Morocco.
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Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and troops push on towards the Suez canal, just twenty miles away. Israeli paratroopers drop
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John Williams, former SA rugby coach, is born.
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The first Afrikaans Hymn Book is published.
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James John Hadebe, anti-apartheid activist and later representative of the ANC in Cairo and East Africa, is born in Frankfort,
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James Thompson Bain, Scottish engineer, labour leader and editor who was one of the most militant labour leaders during the 191
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Mohandas Gandhi leads an Indian protest mach from Natal into the Transvaal.
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Hendrik Witbooi, leader of the Nama tribe in German South West Africa, dies in a skirmish with the Germans near Keetmanshoop, S
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The Suez Canal convention is signed in Constantinople.
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The Natal colonial government organises an expeditionary force against Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people after he fir
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A photo exhibition is opened in the studio of Samuel Barnard in Adderley Street, Cape Town, in which the work of several local
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Faku, Pondo paramount chief and trustworthy ally of the Cape Colony, dies near Palmerton, Pondoland.
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The monthly mail shipping line contract between England and the Cape Colony starts with the steamboat Dane.
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Hester A. Bailey, wife of surgeon Samuel Bailey, dies.
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Roland Trimen, SA entomologist and curator of the South African Museum, is born in London.
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Jeff Radebe, the transport minister, speaking at the first launch of the Taxi Recapitalisation Programme (TRP) at Botshabelo st
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Huberte Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, dies in Stellenbosch. She was known for her promotion of the arts and as an
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Steve Strydom, former chairman of the Free State rugby union and well-known SA rugby referee, dies of cancer in Bloemfontein.
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Tshwane Metro announces the closure of certain libraries.
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Pieter Venter discovers three coelacanths at 104m while scuba diving in the Jesser Canyon off Sodwana Bay in the St Lucia Marin
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Forces loyal to Zambian president Frederick Chiluba quash a coup by disgruntled military officers, arresting nine men including
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The Commission against Apartheid in Sports meet from 28 to 30 October in New York with representatives of the liberation moveme
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President F.W. de Klerk reshuffles his cabinet.
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President Sese Seko Mobutu orders Belgium to withdraw all its troops from Zaire.
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The Rev Beyers Naude, who was previously banned by the government, speaks publicly for the first time in twenty-seven years at
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Sixteen residents of Naledi, Soweto, die in an attack thought to be a revenge attack for the death of IFP member.
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The Reverend Beyers Naudé is served with his second banning order, restricting him for a further three years. The order
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Newspaper and Imprint Registration Act No 19 commences.
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