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Anglo-Boer War 2: Joseph Chamberlain, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, tells the House of Commons, “The reasons w
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Mr Chamberlain, British Secretary of State for the Colonies, outlines the system of government he envisag
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts sends his Chief of Staff, Lord Kitchener, to take overall command of the forces engaged agains
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The control of the Dutch East India Company is ceded to Britain.
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Muhammad Ali Pasha (80), who ruled Egypt for forty-four years, dies in Alexandria.
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Charles Bowyer Adderley, firm adversary to the proposal of the British Colonial ministry to establish a penal colony at the Cap
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Carl Ludwig Phillip Zeyher, SA botanist and collector of plants, is born in Dillenburg, Hesse.
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Erasmus Smit, controversial preacher of the Voortrekkers, is born in Buiksloot, the Netherlands.
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The Dutch expel Portuguese from Gold Coast in Africa.
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Top Cyclist Ryan Cox (28) passes away during the early hours, following complications suffered from a vascular lesion operation
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Southern Sudanese riot in Khartoum, smashing cars and shops and blaming the government for the death in a helicopter crash of t
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Dr Allan Boesak, minister to the Piketberg congregation of the World Congregation of Reformed Churches and former anti-aparthei
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Captain Piletji Sebola says in Pretoria they are investigating a charge of murder and about ten of assault in connection with t
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Start of World Breast Feeding Week.
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Mzukisi Sikali (Skali), SA junior bantamweight, wins the World Boxing Union (WBU) title.
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The National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa (NPA) is established.
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Mohammed Farah Aidid, who has controlled much of Somalia during its civil war, dies of wounds suffered during a skirmish with a
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The ANC strongly denies Holomisa’s charge of accepting payments from Sol Kerzner, made by Bantu Holomisa in May 1996.
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Deputy President F.W. de Klerk issues a statement that he does not intend to leave the Government of National Unity.
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Fourteen hostel dwellers and residents are killed in clashes between Tokoza hostel dwellers and Phola Park residents.
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ANC/MK suspends armed actions after twenty-nine years.
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Hundreds of KwaNdebele women flee their homes to seek legal assistance to stop the tribal authority from assaulting or arrestin
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Chief Buthelezi chief minister of KwaZulu and Mr Ramodike chief minister of Lebowa, boycott a meeting between non-independent h
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Elite Unit Act No 18, establishing an intelligence organisation, which could investigate almost anything, commences.
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Alexander John (Sandy) Bell (79), SA cricket player in sixteen tests (1929-1935), dies in Cape Town.
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Victoria Mxenge, civic rights activist and wife of murdered Griffiths Mxenge, is shot dead outside her home in Umlazi, near Dur
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SA closes its consulate in Wellington after the New Zealand prime minister cuts diplomatic ties because of SA’s racial segregat
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The Kenyan Air Force disbands following an attempted coup by non-commissioned officers in which 159 died.
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Joe Gqabi, chief ANC representative, is killed in Harare by a car bomb.
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