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Victor (Vic) Toweel, (bantamweight) becomes SA’s first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes

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D.F. Malan speaks on the Group Areas Bill, calling it the most important part of the policy of apartheid and a new beginning fo

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D.F. Malan speaks on the Group Areas Bill, calling it the most important part of the policy of apartheid and a new beginning fo

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Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius) born c. 1885

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Abd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an eleven-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.

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Abd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an eleven-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.

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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to

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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to

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General Jan Smuts leaves Cape Town for London to attend the world economic conference.

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In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.

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In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.

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The Law on National Parks is passed and the name of Sabie Game Reserve is changed to the Kruger National Park.

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Bas Goedhart, SA journalist and author, is born in the Netherlands.

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Bas Goedhart, SA journalist and author, is born in the Netherlands.

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Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa

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William Ewart Gladstone (W.E.G.) Louw, SA poet and literator and younger brother of N.P. van Wyk Louw, is born in Sutherland.

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Die Brandwag, Afrikaans magazine, is published for the first time with Gustav Preller and W.M.R. Malherbe as editors.

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Dr. Walter Rubusana (African) and Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman (Coloured) are elected to the Cape Provincial Council.

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is inaugurated, eight years after the declaration of peace at Vereeniging, from four colonies: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Rive

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A severe hailstorm hits Natal, wreaking havoc on the colony’s agriculture and economy, already in a weak position because of a

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer delegates at the Vereeniging national delegation agree fifty-four to six to accept the British proposals

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer. Colonel Bottomley warns him that unde

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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Vlakfontein (the present day Derby), Gen. Kemp attacks Brigadier-Gen. Dixon and captures the field guns. D

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger wires Pres. Steyn that only a handful of ZAR burghers are willing to continue the struggle.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under Lord Roberts enter Johannesburg as the Boers withdraw to Pretoria. The British flag is h

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George Whitehouse, a British engineer, decides to build a workshop for Uganda Railway in a swamp where Kenya’s capital, Nairobi

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Andries Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, is reburied in Pretoria after thirty-eight years.

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The first census in the Orange Free State is held. Bloemfontein has 2 567 inhabitants.

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Dr Thomas Barrow Dowling, director of the SA Music Association, is born in Wiltshire, England.

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Natal, annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, becomes a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. (Muller (ed): 500

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Victor (Vic) Toweel, (bantamweight) becomes SA’s first universal boxing champion by beating Manuel Ortez of the USA in Johannes

D.F. Malan speaks on the Group Areas Bill, calling it the most important part of the policy of apartheid and a new beginning fo

D.F. Malan speaks on the Group Areas Bill, calling it the most important part of the policy of apartheid and a new beginning fo

Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius) born c. 1885

Abd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an eleven-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.

Abd al-Krim, Moroccan nationalist leader, escapes after an eleven-year imprisonment on the Island of Reunion.

WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to

WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to

General Jan Smuts leaves Cape Town for London to attend the world economic conference.

In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.

In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.

The Law on National Parks is passed and the name of Sabie Game Reserve is changed to the Kruger National Park.

Bas Goedhart, SA journalist and author, is born in the Netherlands.

Bas Goedhart, SA journalist and author, is born in the Netherlands.

Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa

William Ewart Gladstone (W.E.G.) Louw, SA poet and literator and younger brother of N.P. van Wyk Louw, is born in Sutherland.

Die Brandwag, Afrikaans magazine, is published for the first time with Gustav Preller and W.M.R. Malherbe as editors.

Dr. Walter Rubusana (African) and Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman (Coloured) are elected to the Cape Provincial Council.

is inaugurated, eight years after the declaration of peace at Vereeniging, from four colonies: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Rive

A severe hailstorm hits Natal, wreaking havoc on the colony’s agriculture and economy, already in a weak position because of a

Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer delegates at the Vereeniging national delegation agree fifty-four to six to accept the British proposals

Anglo-Boer War 2: Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer. Colonel Bottomley warns him that unde

Anglo-Boer War 2: At Vlakfontein (the present day Derby), Gen. Kemp attacks Brigadier-Gen. Dixon and captures the field guns. D

Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger wires Pres. Steyn that only a handful of ZAR burghers are willing to continue the struggle.

Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under Lord Roberts enter Johannesburg as the Boers withdraw to Pretoria. The British flag is h

George Whitehouse, a British engineer, decides to build a workshop for Uganda Railway in a swamp where Kenya’s capital, Nairobi

Andries Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, is reburied in Pretoria after thirty-eight years.

The first census in the Orange Free State is held. Bloemfontein has 2 567 inhabitants.

Dr Thomas Barrow Dowling, director of the SA Music Association, is born in Wiltshire, England.

Natal, annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, becomes a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. (Muller (ed): 500