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Basutoland, within SA, is proclaimed a British territory.

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Cornelis Moll, founder of the first Natal newspaper De Natalier, is bornas 24th child in Cape Town.

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Portuguese navigator Bartholomew Diaz erects his first padrao (stone cross) at Kwaaihoek near the mouth of the Bushman’s River

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Tito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen

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Tito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen

SAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail

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SAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail

The TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest

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The TEC decides on Bophuthatswana’s incorporation following major unrest

ANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu

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ANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu

Native Khoikhoi tribespeople are alleged to have looted more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers

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Native Khoikhoi tribespeople are alleged to have looted more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers

The South African Industrial Federation riot in the Rand Gold mining district

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The South African Industrial Federation riot in the Rand Gold mining district

Welcome Ncita, junior featherweight of SA, wins the IBF

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Welcome Ncita, junior featherweight of SA, wins the IBF

The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon

Afrikaners and the Second World War by Rodney Warwick

Gisele Wulfsohn – the late photography legend had a vision to expose social injustices

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Thousands of Cape Peninsula train commuters are left stranded when the deliberate destruction of a major cable throws the train

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President Teodoro Obiang Nguema thanks SA and Angola for warning him of the plot to overthrow his government and says it was fu

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South Africa wins the third cricket test match against Pakistan in Port Elizabeth, Fanie de Villiers’ last match, with 259 runs

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Despite US reservations, the Vatican establishes diplomatic relations with Libya.

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South African arms manufacturer Denel announces that it will unveil six new products at a United Arab Emirates weapons exhibiti

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South Africa abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand.

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Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreats from his capital in the face of a popular uprising

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Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach against the fund

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The Venda administration unbans the ANC, PAC, SACP and Venda Independent Party.

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Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been

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SA signs an agreement concerning the status of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group to Namibia.

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The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr

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During the night the ANC mounts a sabotage attack on a petrol depot in which five storage tanks are damaged.

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The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft

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Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat

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Percy Qoboza, editor of the banned newspaper, The World, is released from detention, together with nine other Black leaders sei