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Twenty-two leading Indian leaders, including Manilal Gandhi, Albert Christopher and P.R. Pather, calls for a mass meeting to pr
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Daniel Francois (D. F.) Malan, Minister of the Interior, introduces the Areas Reservation and Immigration and Registration (Fur
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Stefans Grové, SA pianist and composer, is born in Bethlehem, OFS.
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Kenya becomes a British crown colony.
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The House of Assembly in Cape Town passes a preliminary resolution in favour of the union of the four provinces of South Africa
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Milner is presented with the freedom of the City of London at the Guildhall.
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A Pan-African Congress meets in London.
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Stuart Cloete, SA author of i.a. Wheels and Rags of Glory, is born in Parys, OFS.
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Haile Selassi I emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74), is born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of Ejersa Goro in the Harar provin
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(Pieter) Hugo Naude, SA portrait and landscape painter, is born in Worcester.
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Dr David Livingstone, SA explorer, visits England.
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Andries (Wilhelmus Jacobus) Pretorius, Voortrekker leader after whom Pretoria was named, dies in the Magaliesberg district.
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Napoleon Bonaparte captures Alexandria, Egypt.
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William John Burchell, botanist and explorer of the interior of SA, is born in Fulham, London.
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The Council of 17 decides at a meeting in Amsterdam that Mauritius be abandoned as a subordinate settlement to that of the Cape
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Johannes (Jan) Commelin, SA expert on herbs, is born in Leiden, the Netherlands.
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A free trade agreement between Morocco and the US comes into effect.
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Wouter Hugo (46), former Free State rugby captain, dies in a motorcar accident.
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A UN agency begins dropping tons of food from a cargo plane to help an estimated 700 000 people facing serious food shortages i
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President Clinton orders the Pentagon to begin a major relief effort in Rwanda.
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The ANC, in an emergency meeting, calls for the dismissal of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Magnus Ma
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Liberian President Samuel K Doe becomes virtual prisoner in presidential mansion as rebels besiege Monrovia and Doe’s 500-man s
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Twenty-four people die in Sebokeng after attacks by armed impis leaving an Inkatha rally in the township. Coleman gives the num
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Minister of National Education FW de Klerk says the government has drafted formulas for a 10-year strategy for equality in educ
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Police detain UDF national secretary-general Mohamed Valli and UDF acting publicity secretary Murphy Morobe in a pre-dawn raid
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The annual meeting of the International Cricket Conference in London decides not to accept South Africa’s application for readm
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Egypt bombs and strikes major air base in Libya in second day of conflict between the two countries.
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Criminal Procedure Act No 51 commences. It consolidates the law relating to procedure in criminal proceedings and repeals the 1
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Raphael Ndukwe Chukwu, foreign football player who plays for SA and who was winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 97
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