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Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… in 1806, Dutch farmers had taken control over much of the land in the western part of the country. Dutch control … labour sources to work on farms. The Khoi…
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… Route. Over 400 million years ago, there was only one land and one sea that encompassed it. Rivers flowed into this … again. The cretaceous mud and sand…
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2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Report and Recommendations on Strategy and Tactics of the ANC, Midrand, 26 - 29 June 2012
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Under the Sky of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness edited by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny, and Ludmilla A. Trigos
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Anglo-Portuguese agreement on Zambezi and Congo grants Britain control of lower Zambezi and colonising rights up to the Congo.
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Egypt and Israel sign a cease-fire agreement sponsored by the United States, and begin discussions to carry out the pact
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Convention between the governments of South Africa and France for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal
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Johannes Hermanus Grobler, first landdros of Potchefstroom and Ohrigstad and later acting president of the ZAR, is born in Geor
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The United Nations (UN) Security Council votes to impose air and travel sanctions against Angola’s UNITA movement and close its
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The United Nations (UN) Security Council votes to impose air and travel sanctions against Angola’s UNITA movement and close its
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Chief Julius Matatu, former Transkei minister and prominent traditional leader, is shot and killed at his home in Mqanduli, Tra
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Anti-Indian Legislation: The Immigration and Indian Relief (Further) Provision: Act 37/1927 becomes law and the scheme of assis
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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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Burundi and Rwanda achieve independence from Germany. They had been part of the German colony Deutsche Ostafrika and then held
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Blanche Gerstman (83), composer and musician who also lectured in composition in Pretoria and Cape Town, dies in Cape Town. V
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Jean van der Poel, historian and teacher who played an important role in the South African Teachers’ Association and undertook
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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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African and some other delegates walk out of the International Labour Conference in Geneva when delegates of the Government and
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Convention between the governments of South Africa and Denmark for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fisca
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Dr Mahomed Said Asvat, specialist physician, lecturer and author of articles on liver diseases and cancer, is born in Johannesb
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On the anniversary of the Soweto uprising, police bar forty-seven local and overseas journalists from entering Soweto and tear
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Dr Christiaan Barnard transplants two lungs and a heart into a man in Cape Town, South Africa, and the operation is described a
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In two separate statements, the ANC and the UN Committee Against Apartheid call for a more concerted and intensified effort fro
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The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Hilgard Muller, visits Portugal (15-17 June), and says that Portuguese and South African f
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Headman Tshabalala, SA singer and founder member of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen
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Johannes Hermanus Grobler, first landdros of Potchefstroom and Ohrigstad and later acting president of the ZAR, is born in Geor
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The Egyptians and Syrians launch surprise attacks on Israel on Yom Kippur day, catching Israel almost totally by surprise and s
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Dr. C. Mulder, together with two other former National Party members, Cas Greyling and Sarel Reinecke, and four other men, anno
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This Day reports that the debate over the Black economic empowerment (BEE) deal between Standard Bank and Liberty, and Tutuwa,
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