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Gabriel A. Odé, official historian of the ZAR, is dismissed after differences of opinion between him and Drs Leyds, Mans
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Chief Malaboch (Mmalebôho, Mmalebôxo), chief of the Xananwa people, surrenders to Comdt-Gen. Piet Joubert after a siege of mo
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Marthinus Lourens de Villiers, composer of “Die Stem” (The Call of South Africa), is born in Paarl, Cape.
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Helgard Dewald Johannes Bodenstein, jurist, first secretary of external affairs in SA and editor of several law publications, i
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The first cable connection between SA and Europe, via Aden, is inaugurated.
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The Volksraad of the ZAR approves of the construction of a railway line from Pretoria to Delagoa Bay.
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David George Anosi, SA businessman, is born in Arnhem, the Netherlands.
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At the end of a damaging six-day strike of cabin crew and ground staff, SOUTH African Airways (SAA) undertakes to improve the w
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News 24 reports that the worst fires in SA history wrecked havoc in Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal during the past weekend. Fires
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After years of bloody civil war the first multi-party elections in forty years takes place in the Democratic Republic of Congo
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The SA Springbok rugby team beats the Australian Wallabies 22-16 at Loftus in Pretoria, in the opening match of the Tri-nations
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The UN Security Council passes a resolution threatening to punish Sudan if it fails to halt atrocities in Darfur within thirty
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The Shotokan Karate World Cup tournament starts in Pretoria, 30-31 July. (Rekord Centurion, July 30, 2004).
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’Rekord’ announces that Robert Liefeldt, men’s gymnastics coach and seasoned judge of the All Africa Games and Commonwealth Gam
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North West premier Edna Molewa signs a R100 million land restitution deal, compensating six communities for apartheid-era force
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The South African Communist Party celebrates its 83rd anniversary. (Sowetan, 27 July 2004, p. 16).
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The Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, announces that the government has added an addition
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President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwandan President Paul Kagame sign a peace agreement intend
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Two members of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD), Faizel Hendricks and Nurulla Allie, are killed and two injured wh
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Peter Malinga, SA welterweight, wins the World Boxing Union (WBU) world champion title.
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The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is to resign from the government of National Unity follo
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Thirty residents are killed in an attack on ANC dominated Umthambeka by The Toaster gang and hostel dwellers, allegedly in coll
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Nelson Mandela requests the United Nations to send observers during the ANC demonstrations scheduled for the following week.
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The South African government and ANC leaders hold talks, brokered by the United Nations Special Envoy to South Africa, Cyrus Va
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In a major cabinet reshuffle after the ‘Inkathagate’ incident, Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Genera
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Addressing a nationally televised press conference, President de Klerk announces that all special projects, which could be cons
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Daily Dispatch reports that there was a shootout between Transkei police and two insurgents at Mzamba in July. A man was arrest
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Maryanne Serrano (21) is killed in a bomb explosion in the Wimpy Bar at the Benoni Plaza, Benoni. Fifty-six people are injured,
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An ANC car bomb attack directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, takes place in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. One pers
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