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A two-day conference of the Congress of the People, sponsored by the Congress Alliance, a united front against the National Par
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Daniël Malan, SA long distance athlete, is born in Paarl.
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The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and hundreds of Russian-built T-34 tanks cross the border into S
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Isaac Nkoana, S.A artist, is born in Lady Selborne, Transvaal.
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At 11 am forty-seven (Passive) Resisters appear in court. Dr G.M. Naicker, Dr Goonam and M.D. Naidoo are sentenced under the Ri
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British Air Force stages 1 000-bomber raid on Bremen, Germany, in World War II.
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WWII: General Sir Claude Auchinleck becomes commander of the British Eighth Army in North Africa.
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A Conference of Editors in Pretoria agrees to the terms for a voluntary censorship agreement with the government regarding mili
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The OK Bazaars opens on the corner of Eloff and President Street in Johannesburg.
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Anna Elvira Bliss (82), principal of the Huguenot College in Wellington, dies.
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Britain says it will not abandon the Sudan, despite Egyptian demands for complete withdrawal.
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Sir John W. Akerman (79), businessman and speaker of the Natal Parliament, dies in London.
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Dr Izak David du Plessis, author, poet and chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, is born in Philipstown.
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Pres. Paul Kruger meets the British High Commissioner, Sir Henry Loch, on Pretoria station and accompanies him to his hotel to
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Khedive Ismael (Ismael Pasha) is deposed and replaced by his son Tewfik Pasha due to the considerable international pressure ov
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The American president, Abraham Lincoln, extends official recognition to Liberia, who had declared itself independent on 26 Jul
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Ludwig Heinrich Beil, SA musician and botanist, dies in Keurbooms River.
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Financial stringency forces the government of the Cape to issue paper money.
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Huybert Dirck Campagne, SA satirist and author, is born in Tiel, the Netherlands.
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Governor Johan Bax of the Cape, who waged war against the Hottentot (Khoi-Khoi) Chief Gonnema from 1676, concludes ‘a good, las
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Gangsters turn out in force at the Winterveld Cemetery and disrupt the funeral of Dr Masuku, a former ANC activist and anti-cri
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Fourteen teachers, all from a primary school in Montsioa, near Mafikeng, are killed when their taxi burst a tyre and collide wi
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The game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Saudi Arabia ends in a tie with the score 2-2.
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Defence Minister Joe Modise warns that the proposed R1, 4 bn. cut in the defence budget could seriously disrupt the defence for
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The SA rugby team, with François Pienaar as captain, wins the World Cup final match against New Zealand 15-12. Joel Stransky
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SA signs a joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations with Uganda.
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The Harmful Business Practices Act of 1988 is gazetted ‘to provide for the prohibition or control of certain business practices
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Government Notice No 68 commences. Repeals curfew regulations.
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Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker meets Oliver Tambo, president of the ANC, in Britain.
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