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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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Despite Haile Selassie’s call for the League of Nations to protect Abyssinia, the League decides to drop sanctions against Ital
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Fighting breaks out as a riotous crowd on the Johannesburg market square is confronted by police and mounted soldiers during th
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Susanna Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy who worked mainly in Nigeria, is b
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Afrikaans-speaking Boers protest that the new electorate laws favour the English-speakers, and are an example of how Boers are
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Republican General C.F. Beyers captures a troop train near Naboomspruit, Transvaal, killing nine soldiers.
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Johannes Albertus Munnik (Albert) Hertzog, advocate, politician, leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party and eldest son of form
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The Battle of Ulundi, decisive battle during the Zulu War, takes place with the British forces gaining the upper hand and Cetsh
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A meeting of the Anti-Convict Association is held in Cape Town.
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Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan), Cape parliamentarian, is born in Cape Town. He died in London in 1909 as member of the dele
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Governor Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon leaves the Cape. He was popular with the colonists and improved conditions of
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Fearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.
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Marthinus Adrianus Bergh, magistrate of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein and later leader of the second deputation of Patriots to t
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SA tennis player Liezel Huber and Cara Black of Zimbabwe win the women’s doubles on Wimbledon. Huber also reached the semi-fina
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Gene Rockwell (54), SA rock singer of Heart, dies of cancer in Roodepoort, Transvaal.
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The SA rugby team loses 17-18 against France in Johannesburg.
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Corruption Act No 94, providing anew for the criminalisation of corruption, commences.
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Constance Sotsu, Margaret Sotsu and Samanta Sotsu (4), relatives of COSATU official and ANC education officer Rev. Ernest Sotsu
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Foreign Ministers of Kenya and SA meet in Pretoria.
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Johan Daniël (Bull) Hefer, professional wrestling promoter, dies in Johannesburg.
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John Fleming (Jack) Brock, scientist, physician and professor who developed the Department of Medicine at the University of Cap
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Robert Brian (Bobby) Skinstad, at 22 the youngest SA rugby captain ever, is born in Bulawayo.
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103 hostages are rescued by an Israeli commando unit at the raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda in operation Thunderball (later r
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Themba Sono is forced to resign from SASO.
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Twelve Africans on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired to take over a town and kill Whites a
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Dangerous Weapons Act No 71, prohibiting the possession of weapons, which could cause bodily injury if used in an assault, comm
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