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Horace Brackenridge (Jock) Cameron, SA cricket player in twenty-six tests, is born in Port Elizabeth.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant-General Louis Botha receives a telegraph from President Kruger urging him to continue fighting.
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Reichskommissar (Imperial Commissioner) Gustav Nachtigal, sent by Bismarck, hoists the German flag in Togoland (now Republic of
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Cecil John Rhodes, SA statesman after whom Rhodesia was named, is born in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.
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Barney Barnato, diamond magnate and life-long member of De Beers Company, is born in London as Barnett Isaacs.
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The French occupy the North African city of Algiers. The colonisation of Algeria was seen as a way of providing employment for
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Lord Charles Somerset, governor of the Cape, publishes a proclamation proclaiming English as the only language to be used in co
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A German baker, Carel Christoph Pabst, starts a music school in Cape Town to train amateur musicians for his orchestra.
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Father Frans Claerhout, acclaimed South African painter from Flemish descent, dies in his sleep at a Bloemfontein hospital afte
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Granny Maloko Temo of Mantata near Dendron, eldest person in SA and allegedly eldest in the world, celebrates her 130th birthda
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Philip Rabinowitz, Polish born South African centenarian, sets a new world record by running the 100m in 28.7 seconds. Owin
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An Egyptian immigrant armed with two handguns and a hunting knife fatally shoots two people and injures several others near the
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Congolese President Joseph Kabila and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni meet for first face-to-face peace talks in Tanzania as
EventThe SA rugby team beats England 18-0 on a very muddy Newlands field, Cape Town.
The SA rugby team beats England 18-0 on a very muddy Newlands field, Cape Town.
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It is announced unexpectedly that Tito Mboweni, Minister of Labour, will succeed Dr Chris Stals as President of the SA Reserve
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Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.
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Mr Alexander hands his report on the granting of gambling rights to the Transkei Military Council. It refers to a ‘grotesque pa
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Professor Carel Boshoff resigns as chairman of the Broederbond. He is critical of the government’s constitutional proposals, wh
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Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie agrees to military supervision of his government and speedup of democratic reforms.
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The Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
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Because a select committee to inquire into and report on certain organisations has not completed its task at the end of the par
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A meeting of the World Council of Churches in Sweden (4 -19 July), at which the Rt Rev A.H. Zulu, Bishop of Zululand and Swazil
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The Sierra Leone government imposes a ban on all trade and commerce with South Africa, as a protest against its apartheid polic
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A United Nations eight-man committee with instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa is r
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The Congolese army mutinies.
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Four matches are played to mark the official start of professional soccer in southern Africa.
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The basic agreement about the transfer of Simonstown naval base to the Union of South Africa by the United Kingdom is concluded
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Haroun S. Ebrahim, financier, director of various companies, and trustee of Joosub H.S. Ebrahim Foundation, is born.
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World War II: East Africa. British posts at Kassala and Gallabat, on the borders of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), Eritrea, and Suda
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