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The Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire in its 27-year civil war against Unita, to begin the next day.

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Mr. Tony Leon, Leader of the Democratic Alliance speculates on the declaration of an AIDS-related national emergency from the D

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Finance Minister Liebenberg presents the 1996-97 Budget, reports continuing economic growth and underlines his aim of building

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TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph

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South Africa signs treaties with Swaziland on the establishment and functioning of the joint Water Commission and the developme

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Frank Moema, reverend and community leader, disappears after allegedly being abducted by men in camouflage gear. Coleman, M. (e

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Business Dayreports that Justice T. Spoelstra has sentenced four strikers to death four times each on charges of murder of non-

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Church services are held countrywide to warn the government to desist from its confrontational road.

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The former Prime Minister and President, John Vorster, re-emerges into public life with a speech in Bloemfontein in which he qu

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Lillian Ngoyi, well-known women’s activist dies.

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The first public rally of the new South African Black Alliance (SABA) is held under the leadership of Chief Gatsha Buthelezi in

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The SAA Rietbok crashes into the sea at Kayser’s Beach near East London, with the loss of twenty-five lives.

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Nicolaas Christiaan (Klasie) Havenga (74), private secretary of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, MP for Fauresmith and Ladybrand, and twice

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Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of

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Dr K. Goonam leads a batch of twelve Passive Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border.

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P.W. Botha, later state president of SA, marries Elize Rossouw in Swellendam.

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Solomon K. Sedibane, S.A sculptor, is born in Sekhukhuneland, Transvaal.

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Dr Robert T. A. Innes (71), astronomer and secretary-accountant at the Cape observatory, dies in London.

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First commercial air route is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.

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Henning J. Klopper, Speaker of the Volksraad at the time of South Africa becoming a Republic, joins the Railways. He is later a

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Gen. David Johannes (Ou Kat) Joubert, South African explorer to East Africa, dies of malaria near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: A Republican delegation consisting of A. Fischer, A.D.W. Wolmarans, C.H. Wessels with J.M. de Bruin as secret

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Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces under Lord Roberts take Bloemfontein.

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The Potchefstroom treaty between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, binding each state to assist the other w

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De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.

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Khoisan loot more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers.

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Bertie van Zyl (72), the owner of the biggest tomato farming industry in the country, ZZ2, is buried at Mooketsi, Limpopo. Amon

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Astronomers debunk a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth on October 26, 2028, saying the calculations we

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Burundi authorities arrest five people, including two soldiers, after they attempted to kill Burundian leader Maj. Pierre Buyoy

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Chief Lucas Mangope is deposed as leader of Bophuthatswana. Dr. Tjaart van der Walt is appointed as the territory’s new adminis

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The Angolan government announces a unilateral ceasefire in its 27-year civil war against Unita, to begin the next day.

Mr. Tony Leon, Leader of the Democratic Alliance speculates on the declaration of an AIDS-related national emergency from the D

Finance Minister Liebenberg presents the 1996-97 Budget, reports continuing economic growth and underlines his aim of building

TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph

South Africa signs treaties with Swaziland on the establishment and functioning of the joint Water Commission and the developme

Frank Moema, reverend and community leader, disappears after allegedly being abducted by men in camouflage gear. Coleman, M. (e

Business Dayreports that Justice T. Spoelstra has sentenced four strikers to death four times each on charges of murder of non-

Church services are held countrywide to warn the government to desist from its confrontational road.

The former Prime Minister and President, John Vorster, re-emerges into public life with a speech in Bloemfontein in which he qu

Lillian Ngoyi, well-known women’s activist dies.

The first public rally of the new South African Black Alliance (SABA) is held under the leadership of Chief Gatsha Buthelezi in

The SAA Rietbok crashes into the sea at Kayser’s Beach near East London, with the loss of twenty-five lives.

Nicolaas Christiaan (Klasie) Havenga (74), private secretary of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, MP for Fauresmith and Ladybrand, and twice

Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of

Dr K. Goonam leads a batch of twelve Passive Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border.

P.W. Botha, later state president of SA, marries Elize Rossouw in Swellendam.

Solomon K. Sedibane, S.A sculptor, is born in Sekhukhuneland, Transvaal.

Dr Robert T. A. Innes (71), astronomer and secretary-accountant at the Cape observatory, dies in London.

First commercial air route is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.

Henning J. Klopper, Speaker of the Volksraad at the time of South Africa becoming a Republic, joins the Railways. He is later a

Gen. David Johannes (Ou Kat) Joubert, South African explorer to East Africa, dies of malaria near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Anglo-Boer War 2: A Republican delegation consisting of A. Fischer, A.D.W. Wolmarans, C.H. Wessels with J.M. de Bruin as secret

Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces under Lord Roberts take Bloemfontein.

The Potchefstroom treaty between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, binding each state to assist the other w

De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.

Khoisan loot more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers.

Bertie van Zyl (72), the owner of the biggest tomato farming industry in the country, ZZ2, is buried at Mooketsi, Limpopo. Amon

Astronomers debunk a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth on October 26, 2028, saying the calculations we

Burundi authorities arrest five people, including two soldiers, after they attempted to kill Burundian leader Maj. Pierre Buyoy

Chief Lucas Mangope is deposed as leader of Bophuthatswana. Dr. Tjaart van der Walt is appointed as the territory’s new adminis