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Albert Luthuli’s ban expires again but he is immediately served with a new and stricter order.

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General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Algiers formally recognises the Algerian juntas.

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Ex-president Pierre Mendés-France resigns from the French Cabinet in disgust over the current crackdown in Algeria.

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Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, teacher, politician and journalist, born in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district in 1861, dies in River

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Moss Lebakeng Leoka, executive chair of Makulu Consolidating Holdings and director of several boards, is born in Orlando East,

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India asks its High Commissioner in South Africa, Ramrao Madhavrao Deshmukh, to return for consultations. He sails for India th

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Rejoice Thizwilondi Mabudafhazi , Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism of the Republic of South Africa since 1

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Evelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Leipzig, Germany.

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Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania. He died on 6 Jan. 1995.

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France captures the Rif capital, Targuist.

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British soldiers are called out in Alexandria to restore order after riots by nationalists. The riots follow the departure of a

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The Seier of Norway is wrecked near Buffelsbaai, Western Cape, after having struck a rock in the vicinity of Walker Bay.

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Reports of a severe famine in the Usoga region of Uganda suggest at least 4,000 people have already died.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops arrive at the Renoster River only to find that the Boers have destroyed the bridge.

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F.B. Deemin, a gold digger of Johannesburg, is hanged in Australia for murdering his first wife and casting her in a cement blo

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Capt. Smith attacks Andries Pretorius at Congella in Natal. Smith is defeated, seventeen men are killed and thirty-one are wo

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Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure,

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The official opening of Baramall, Soweto’s first mega shopping mall.

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More than R10m in foreign currency is stolen from the safes of the SAPS serious and violent crimes (SVC) unit in Benoni, on the

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According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the

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Troops loyal to Congo’s new president, Laurent Kabila, break up protests in Kinshasa just a week after his forces enter the cap

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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-2 against England in an away game.

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Seven French Trappist monks have been killed in Algeria two months after their kidnap by Islamic extremists of the Armed Islami

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The IFP withdraws from the inter-governmental forum, which provides for liaison between the central and provincial governments.

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The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire rises to 108.

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Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC, is elected chairman of the Constituent Assembly, which is to write a new constit

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President Nelson Mandela, in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament, announces that South Africa will subscribe to the U

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President Nelson Mandela opens his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town by quoting from Ingrid Jonker’s poem

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World Bank Vice President, Edward Jaycox, announces that the Bank has $1 billion worth of development projects in the pipeline

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Eritrea declares independence from Ethiopia following a referendum in April, ending a thirty-year civil war.

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Albert Luthuli’s ban expires again but he is immediately served with a new and stricter order.

General Raoul Salan, the Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Algiers formally recognises the Algerian juntas.

Ex-president Pierre Mendés-France resigns from the French Cabinet in disgust over the current crackdown in Algeria.

Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, teacher, politician and journalist, born in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district in 1861, dies in River

Moss Lebakeng Leoka, executive chair of Makulu Consolidating Holdings and director of several boards, is born in Orlando East,

India asks its High Commissioner in South Africa, Ramrao Madhavrao Deshmukh, to return for consultations. He sails for India th

Rejoice Thizwilondi Mabudafhazi , Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism of the Republic of South Africa since 1

Evelyn Dalberg, SA opera singer, is born in Leipzig, Germany.

Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania. He died on 6 Jan. 1995.

France captures the Rif capital, Targuist.

British soldiers are called out in Alexandria to restore order after riots by nationalists. The riots follow the departure of a

The Seier of Norway is wrecked near Buffelsbaai, Western Cape, after having struck a rock in the vicinity of Walker Bay.

Reports of a severe famine in the Usoga region of Uganda suggest at least 4,000 people have already died.

Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops arrive at the Renoster River only to find that the Boers have destroyed the bridge.

F.B. Deemin, a gold digger of Johannesburg, is hanged in Australia for murdering his first wife and casting her in a cement blo

Capt. Smith attacks Andries Pretorius at Congella in Natal. Smith is defeated, seventeen men are killed and thirty-one are wo

Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure,

The official opening of Baramall, Soweto’s first mega shopping mall.

More than R10m in foreign currency is stolen from the safes of the SAPS serious and violent crimes (SVC) unit in Benoni, on the

According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the

Troops loyal to Congo’s new president, Laurent Kabila, break up protests in Kinshasa just a week after his forces enter the cap

The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-2 against England in an away game.

Seven French Trappist monks have been killed in Algeria two months after their kidnap by Islamic extremists of the Armed Islami

The IFP withdraws from the inter-governmental forum, which provides for liaison between the central and provincial governments.

The death toll from the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire rises to 108.

Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary-General of the ANC, is elected chairman of the Constituent Assembly, which is to write a new constit

President Nelson Mandela, in his State of the Nation Address to Parliament, announces that South Africa will subscribe to the U

President Nelson Mandela opens his State of the Nation Address to Parliament in Cape Town by quoting from Ingrid Jonker’s poem

World Bank Vice President, Edward Jaycox, announces that the Bank has $1 billion worth of development projects in the pipeline

Eritrea declares independence from Ethiopia following a referendum in April, ending a thirty-year civil war.