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Judge Ismael Mahomed, first SA Black chief justice, is born.
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Prof. Jan Kamp, literary critic and editor of Het Westen, dies.
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Roland Trimen (75), curator of the South African Museum, dies in London.
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A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress is attended by a large number of people from th
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Comoros is proclaimed a French colony.
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The Cape Town city hall is inaugurated five years after the corner stone was laid and while the building is still in progress.
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James James Ranisi Jolobe, Xhosa author and poet, and Presbyterian clergyman, is born in Xhalanga district, Transkei.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In the month since 25 June, Emily Hobhouse has addressed 26 public meetings in Britain on the concentration c
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The first ‘Burgerspond’, named after Pres. T.F. Burgers and made of gold from Pilgrim’s Rest, is handed in London to J.J. Pratt
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Prof. Ulrich Gerhard Lauts (78), who reported on the Great Trek and further adventures of the Voortrekkers and who was appointe
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Dr James Barry, physician at the Cape who performed the first caesarean in the Cape Colony, dies in London.
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The Battle of Berea takes place in the OVS and Basotho War.
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Fearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, dies in Simonstown. He was buried at the Royal Observatory.
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The first successful Caesarean is carried out in Cape Town. The lives of mother and baby are saved.
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French-Egyptian forces under beat the Turks at the Battle of Aboukir.
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Napoleon Bonaparte enters Cairo with his French troops.
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Johann Christian Ritter, probably the first printer and bookbinder in SA, is born in Germany.
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Somali truck driver Ali Ahmed Musa is taken hostage by an Iraqi militant group. He is freed unharmed at the beginning of August
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Judge Faan Hancke finds Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez guilty of the murders on two soldiers in an apparent rightwing-in
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In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their
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Ray White is elected for a second term as president of the SA United Cricket Board (UCB).
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Benedict (Bennie) McCarthy of Bafana Bafana, accepts a contract of R38, 5 million to play for the Spanish club Celta Vigo.
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King Hassan II (70) of Morocco dies of heart failure.
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Pres. Gnassingbe Eyadema, president of the West African state Togo for 31 years, is inaugurated for another term of 5 years.
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Rwandan refugees trickle into Zaire now Congo after the border is opened, to escape filthy, crowded camps where death from chol
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Hungary and SA agree to upgrade their relations to ambassadorial level.
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The Special Committee against Apartheid issues a statement concerning the Report of the Secretary-General on the Progress made
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Strike of 10,000 Johannesburg municipal workers.
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Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat orders his troops to observe immediate cease-fire in fighting with Libya.
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