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Final evacuation of Sophiatown by Black residents.

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Gen. Jan Kemp (74), SA warrior, politician and minister of defence, dies in Piet Retief.

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Senator F.S. Malan (69), editor of the early Afrikaans publications Die Afrikaanse Patriot and Ons Land, dies.

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E.S.J. van Graan, his son and three friends scale the flat-topped sandstone hill on the farm Greefswald, Messina (now Musina) d

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Lieutenant-Colonel Manie Bredell retires as head adjunct-commissioner of the South African Police.

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The Sahara is traversed by an automobile for the first time.

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Anna Margaretha Louw, Afrikaans author and recipient of various wards, is born in the district of Calvinia.

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The Rev. W.A. Alheit and his youngest daughter, Bella, drown at Kleinmond when a freak wave washes them from the rocks.

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Dulcie Joyce Lind Howes, doyen of ballet in SA, is born in Mossel Bay.

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Agnes Alwena (Wena) Naude, SA actress, is born in Volksrust.

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Stefan Meiring Naudé, i.a. president of the CSIR (1952) and scientific advisor of the premier (1971), is born in De Door

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James Manuel Blanckenberg, SA cricket player in eighteen tests (1913-1924), is born in Claremont, Cape Town.

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Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town.

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Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, dies near Kokstad. Date is given as 30 December 1875 in a

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Sidney Mendelssohn, compiler of the South African Bibliography and collector of Africana, is born in Exeter, England.

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Frederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The

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A large force of some 12 000 Western Xhosas, led by Makoma (Maqoma), the leader of the Gaika tribe, sweeps into the Cape Colony

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Josias Phillipus Hoffman, first president of the Orange Free State (1854), is born in Stellenbosch, Western Cape.

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The first French Huguenots leave the Netherlands for the Cape, with vine shoots from France with them on the ship.

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Queen Elizabeth I grants a charter to the &quot;company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies&quot; the East India

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Somali presidential spokesman Yusuf Mohamad Ismail reports that the number of Somali’s killed by the tidal waves that battered

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Gary Kirsten becomes the first SA cricket player to score 10 centuries in test cricket.

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More than 400 people are massacred in four villages in Algeria during the country’s insurgency.

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A flight instructor and an Italian student die when their Piper Cherokee crashes at Boesmansrivier in the Eastern Cape.

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Sudan, angered by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit to the rebel-held south, orders the British ambassador to leave the coun

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Four youths are killed in an Apla attack on the Heidelberg Tavern In Observatory, Cape Town.

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SA signs agreement with Botswana regarding the establishment of a representative office.

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Etienne Leroux (67), Afrikaans author and Hertzog Prize winner, dies in a Bloemfontein hospital.

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Establishment of Military Council Act No 1, establishing Military Council and a Council of Ministers to rule the Transkei until

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Robert Mugabe succeeds Canaan Banana and becomes Zimbabwe’s first executive president after reforming the constitution to usher

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Final evacuation of Sophiatown by Black residents.

Gen. Jan Kemp (74), SA warrior, politician and minister of defence, dies in Piet Retief.

Senator F.S. Malan (69), editor of the early Afrikaans publications Die Afrikaanse Patriot and Ons Land, dies.

E.S.J. van Graan, his son and three friends scale the flat-topped sandstone hill on the farm Greefswald, Messina (now Musina) d

Lieutenant-Colonel Manie Bredell retires as head adjunct-commissioner of the South African Police.

The Sahara is traversed by an automobile for the first time.

Anna Margaretha Louw, Afrikaans author and recipient of various wards, is born in the district of Calvinia.

The Rev. W.A. Alheit and his youngest daughter, Bella, drown at Kleinmond when a freak wave washes them from the rocks.

Dulcie Joyce Lind Howes, doyen of ballet in SA, is born in Mossel Bay.

Agnes Alwena (Wena) Naude, SA actress, is born in Volksrust.

Stefan Meiring Naudé, i.a. president of the CSIR (1952) and scientific advisor of the premier (1971), is born in De Door

James Manuel Blanckenberg, SA cricket player in eighteen tests (1913-1924), is born in Claremont, Cape Town.

Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town.

Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, dies near Kokstad. Date is given as 30 December 1875 in a

Sidney Mendelssohn, compiler of the South African Bibliography and collector of Africana, is born in Exeter, England.

Frederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The

A large force of some 12 000 Western Xhosas, led by Makoma (Maqoma), the leader of the Gaika tribe, sweeps into the Cape Colony

Josias Phillipus Hoffman, first president of the Orange Free State (1854), is born in Stellenbosch, Western Cape.

The first French Huguenots leave the Netherlands for the Cape, with vine shoots from France with them on the ship.

Queen Elizabeth I grants a charter to the &amp;quot;company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies&amp;quot; the East India

Somali presidential spokesman Yusuf Mohamad Ismail reports that the number of Somali’s killed by the tidal waves that battered

Gary Kirsten becomes the first SA cricket player to score 10 centuries in test cricket.

More than 400 people are massacred in four villages in Algeria during the country’s insurgency.

A flight instructor and an Italian student die when their Piper Cherokee crashes at Boesmansrivier in the Eastern Cape.

Sudan, angered by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit to the rebel-held south, orders the British ambassador to leave the coun

Four youths are killed in an Apla attack on the Heidelberg Tavern In Observatory, Cape Town.

SA signs agreement with Botswana regarding the establishment of a representative office.

Etienne Leroux (67), Afrikaans author and Hertzog Prize winner, dies in a Bloemfontein hospital.

Establishment of Military Council Act No 1, establishing Military Council and a Council of Ministers to rule the Transkei until

Robert Mugabe succeeds Canaan Banana and becomes Zimbabwe’s first executive president after reforming the constitution to usher

Queen Elizabeth I grants a charter to the "company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies" the East India