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Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the Orange Free State. Lord Roberts changes the name to Orange River Colony.

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Italy reorganises her Red Sea territories as the Colony of Eritrea.

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Stephen Harry Eyssen, composer, singer and editor of the first FAK-volksangbundel, is born.

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Jan Christian Smuts, who was to become the Union of South Africa’s second prime minister, is born on the farm Bovenplaats near

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Horse racing: The Free State Turf Club is founded in Bloemfontein.

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Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric

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Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, war correspondent in the Anglo-Boer War 2 for the Morning Post, is born in London.

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Queen Victoria is born in London at Kensington Palace. As queen of the British Empire, she reigned over the colonies in Africa.

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The Dutch ships Oosterland and Waddingsveen are wrecked during a winter gale in Table Bay.

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Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 29 May in another source a

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Women’s International Day for Peace. (GIED: Celebrating 10 years of Freedom, 2004).

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The OAU is dissolved to make way for the African Union.

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Human rights organisation Amnesty International marks forty years of activism. The organisation, which won the Nobel Prize in 1

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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses 0-2 against Argentina in an away game.

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Rebels topple the government of Sierra Leone in a violent coup.

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Two South Africans, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, reach the summit of Mount Everest and become the first official South African

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Justice Richard Goldstone calls for the establishment of a &quot;truth commission&quot; on apartheid atrocities because &quot;v

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The UN arms embargo on South Africa is finally lifted following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government o

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In an interview with the Financial Times (London), President F.W. de Klerk insists that power sharing between the country’s mai

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Winnie Mandela and the entire executive of the ANC Women’s League are suspended.

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SA signs co-operation agreement with Venda regarding structural adjustment.

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15,000 Falashas Ethiopian Jews are airlifted from Addis Ababa to Israel as rebel forces approach the Ethiopian capital.

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Former Mandela United football coach Jerry Richardson is found guilty on all charges, including the murder of teenage activist

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The African National Congress announces in Lusaka that it will not abandon the armed struggle against White domination until a

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Barend Strydom receives eight death sentences as the result of racial murders in Pretoria the previous year.

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S. Nyanda, ANC member, is abducted in Mbabane, Swaziland.

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The secretary of the United Democratic Front in the Border, Makhenkesi Stofile, is sentenced to an effective eleven years’ impr

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Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.

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At the Crossroads squatter camp near Cape Town, 30,000 Blacks are forcibly removed from their homes.

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The Prohibition of Political Interference Act, which bans racially mixed political parties, is to be repealed.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the Orange Free State. Lord Roberts changes the name to Orange River Colony.

Italy reorganises her Red Sea territories as the Colony of Eritrea.

Stephen Harry Eyssen, composer, singer and editor of the first FAK-volksangbundel, is born.

Jan Christian Smuts, who was to become the Union of South Africa’s second prime minister, is born on the farm Bovenplaats near

Horse racing: The Free State Turf Club is founded in Bloemfontein.

Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric

Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, war correspondent in the Anglo-Boer War 2 for the Morning Post, is born in London.

Queen Victoria is born in London at Kensington Palace. As queen of the British Empire, she reigned over the colonies in Africa.

The Dutch ships Oosterland and Waddingsveen are wrecked during a winter gale in Table Bay.

Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 29 May in another source a

Women’s International Day for Peace. (GIED: Celebrating 10 years of Freedom, 2004).

The OAU is dissolved to make way for the African Union.

Human rights organisation Amnesty International marks forty years of activism. The organisation, which won the Nobel Prize in 1

Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses 0-2 against Argentina in an away game.

Rebels topple the government of Sierra Leone in a violent coup.

Two South Africans, Ian Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd, reach the summit of Mount Everest and become the first official South African

Justice Richard Goldstone calls for the establishment of a &amp;quot;truth commission&amp;quot; on apartheid atrocities because &amp;quot;v

The UN arms embargo on South Africa is finally lifted following the election of Nelson Mandela as president of the government o

In an interview with the Financial Times (London), President F.W. de Klerk insists that power sharing between the country’s mai

Winnie Mandela and the entire executive of the ANC Women’s League are suspended.

SA signs co-operation agreement with Venda regarding structural adjustment.

15,000 Falashas Ethiopian Jews are airlifted from Addis Ababa to Israel as rebel forces approach the Ethiopian capital.

Former Mandela United football coach Jerry Richardson is found guilty on all charges, including the murder of teenage activist

The African National Congress announces in Lusaka that it will not abandon the armed struggle against White domination until a

Barend Strydom receives eight death sentences as the result of racial murders in Pretoria the previous year.

S. Nyanda, ANC member, is abducted in Mbabane, Swaziland.

The secretary of the United Democratic Front in the Border, Makhenkesi Stofile, is sentenced to an effective eleven years’ impr

Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.

At the Crossroads squatter camp near Cape Town, 30,000 Blacks are forcibly removed from their homes.

The Prohibition of Political Interference Act, which bans racially mixed political parties, is to be repealed.

Justice Richard Goldstone calls for the establishment of a "truth commission" on apartheid atrocities because "v