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Lucas Malan, SA poet and literary critic, is born.
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Ben Wa Mokoena Arnold, SA artist and art teacher, is born in Johannesburg.
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Mahatma Gandhi sends a telegram to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo suggesting the postponement of the intended Passive Resistance Campaign.
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Dr Willem Jacobus Viljoen (59), educationist and linguist, dies in Cape Town.
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Rhodesian writer Kingsley Fairbridge dies at Umtali.
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Hendrik Adolph Mulder (Willem Hessels), lecturer, poet, literary critic and co-founder of the periodical Standpunte, is born in
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Anglo-Boer War 2. Lord Kitchener writes in a letter concerning the Ladies’ Commission sent out to investigate into conditions
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Dorothy Ruth Boxall, music teacher and lecturer, writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, is born in King W
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Isaac Baumann, SA pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, dies a week before his 68th birthday in Bloemfontein.
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Jesse Engle, pioneer missionary is born. In 1898 he led the first party of five missionaries to Africa under sponsorship of the
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James Cameron, SA educationist and vice-chancellor of the University of the Cape of Good Hope, is born on Madagascar.
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During Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a Black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing ne
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Graaff-Reinet is founded.
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Graaff-Reinet is founded.
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A Sudanese court sentences ten Arab militiamen to amputation of limbs and six years in jail in the first conviction of Janjawie
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Former President Nelson Mandela celebrates his 86th birthday with family and friends at his Qunu home, Eastern Cape Province.
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Christoffel Coetzee, SA author and winner of the Eugène Marais and M-Net awards for his novel ‘Op soek na generaal Mannetjies
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Swimmer Penny Heyns of SA sets four world records in just two days in the 100m and 200m breaststroke in South California, USA.
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Pres. Nelson Mandela marries Graça Machel on his 80th birthday at his home in Houghton, Johannesburg.
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Max, a 180 kg gorilla, is shot in his neck and shoulder by a robber who got into his cage.
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Jacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the International Boxing Association (IBA) world champion title.
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SA signs an agreement upgrading diplomatic relations with Tanzania.
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SA signs agreement with Namibia with a view to regulating certain taxation matters in Walvis Bay.
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Dome Wellington Ngobese, chairperson of the IFP branch at Glebelands Hostel, is gunned down in his hostel room in Umlazi, Natal
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Twenty-six commuters are killed by vigilantes, allegedly as result of sporadic gun fighting between rival ANC and IFP supportin
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Angola, Cuba, and South Africa, after talks in New York from 11-13 July under US mediation, announce that they have reached ten
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The pro-government Afrikaans newspaper, Die Beeld, in an editorial coinciding with Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday, urges the go
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The Nigerian President of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa (SCSA) states that Britain and other countries maintaining sp
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The Organisation of African Unity (OAU) summit at Khartoum, Sudan, is attended by thirty African nations.
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