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Sultan Mulai Hafid of Morocco abdicates.
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Marthinus Versfeld, SA philosopher and author, is born.
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Professor Daniël Wilhelmus Kruger, historian and professor at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, Uni
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Prof. Pieter de Villiers Pienaar, Afrikaans linguist and cultural historian, is born.
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Herero Revolt: The Waterberg battle begins. The fighting takes place mainly at the areas southeast of the Waterberg (Klein Ha
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Mounted Brigade under Lord Dundonald enters Ermelo unopposed.
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Sir Andrew Smith (74), discoverer and first director of the South African Museum, dies in London.
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Basutoland is annexed to the Cape.
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The first directors’ meeting of Albany Shipping is held in Port Frances (later Port Alfred), eastern Cape.
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Ryk Tulbach, Cape governor in whose honour the town Tulbach was named, dies in the Cape.
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Cornelis de Houtman lands at Mossel Bay, nine days after rounding the Cape, and barters sheep and cattle from the Hottentots (K
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Police find Frans Maluka, Eric Sambo and Patrick Sigudla all allegedly linked to criminal activities around the area, burnt to
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Rebel-allied soldiers free some 200 remaining captives in Sierra Leone, who were kidnapped during a scheduled handover of civil
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The SA cricket team loses the 5th test against England with 24 runs in Headingley. England wins the series 2-1.
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The Springbok wheel chair athlete, Krige Schabort, wins the world title in the 10 km track race at the international athletics
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The SA rugby team loses the first test against New Zealand 18-29 in Cape Town.
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President Mandela confirms that Sol Kerzner did indeed make the contribution to the ANC electoral funds as alleged by Bantu Hlo
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SA signs agreement with Swaziland in respect of cooperation and mutual assistance in the field of combating crime.
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The second draft interim constitution is unveiled.
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President de Klerk and various cabinet ministers meet representatives of non-independent homelands and the Coloured and Indian
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Dr Allan Boesak is arrested in South Africa. Dr Boesak, along with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr Christiaan Beyers Naudé
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Zola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collides accidentally during the 3,000m in the Los Angeles Olympics to cause one of
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With support from Libya in their long-running civil war, Chadian insurgents overrun the outpost of Faya-Largeau in northern Cha
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About 100 White sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a passive protest against the demolition of shanty dwellings outsi
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Part of a prefabricated building of the Peninsula College for Advanced Technical Education is gutted and three explosives are f
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The government extends its powers under the Internal Security Act from the Transvaal only to the whole of South Africa.
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Naval Headquarters at Simonstown announce that the second series of joint British South African exercises off the Cape Coast wi
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Eleven bombs explode, scattering ANC propaganda leaflets in the four major cities. The blasts occur twelve months after similar
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Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda announces nationalisation of copper mining companies, key to Zambia’s economy contributing ove
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