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Sir James Hulett (90), politician and sugar magnate, dies in Berea, Durban.
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The Iron and Steel Industrial Corporation Act is accepted by the SA parliament, thereby paving the way for the founding of ISCO
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The Afrikaner-Broederbond, a confidential cultural organisation, is founded in Johannesburg by a group of young Afrikaners.
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Lord Kitchener drowns when the SS Hampshire sinks after being hit by a German mine near the Orkney Islands.
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Responsible government is promulgated in the Orange River Colony. News 24 gives the date self-government was granted as 1 July
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops enter Pretoria and Lord Roberts captures the capital of the ZAR.
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Negotiations at the Bloemfontein Conference between Sir Alfred Milner and President Paul Kruger end unsuccessfully.
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Under pressure from the British, the sultan of Zanzibar signs a treaty abolishing slavery.
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The name of De Beer’s New Rush is changed to Kimberley, in honour of the Earl of Kimberley, the British minister of colonies.
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Sir John Charles Molteno, first premier of the Cape Colony, is born in London.
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The expedition of August F. Beutler, who left the Castle in the Cape on 29 February, reaches the Keiskamma, near Lyndrift, East
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Jochem Willemse saves most of the crew of the Hoogergeest when it is wrecked, together with the Goede Hoop and Oranje, near the
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World Environment Day.
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Ghanaian musician Kiki Gyan, who played with the band Osibisa, dies aged forty-seven.
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Maria Visser (68), mother of SA singer Worsie Visser, dies in Barkley West, a month after her son was killed in an accident.
Maria Visser (68), mother of SA singer Worsie Visser, dies in Barkley West, a month after her son was killed in an accident.
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The match between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Iceland ends in a tie with 1-1.
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With a border dispute escalating into bombing raids, hundreds of foreigners scramble out of Eritrea, fearing war with Ethiopia.
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A SA fishing trawler, the Sudurhavid, comes to grief at the Falkland Islands and seventeen of the thirty-eight crewmembers drow
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Elize Botha (75), first wife of former president P.W. Botha, dies of a heart attack in Wilderness, Western Cape.
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The Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty.
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The 50th anniversary of ‘D-Day’ (end of World War 2) is commemorated.
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Mission of the Special Committee against Apartheid to South Africa (6-10 June), starts.
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SA signs protocol with the government of France concerning the use of the Satellite Application Centre at Hartebeeshoek. Kalley
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At least 460 refugees, most of them women and children, are massacred in Liberia, allegedly by rebels led by faction leader Cha
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Mkhombiseni Buthelezi, IFP branch chair at Ekusayeniward, kwaNtewa, Natal, is shot and killed.
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Twelve Mdantsane men are sentenced to death on each of five counts of murder after being found guilty without extenuating circu
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Cecil Higgs, one of SA’s foremost painters, dies in Cape Town.
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The SA rugby team beats Ireland in Durban in the second test match 12-10 and wins the series 2-0.
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Public Security Further Amendment Act No 20 commences.
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