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Lt.-Gen. Sir William Francis Butler (71), commanding officer of the British forces in the Cape Province during Anglo-Boer War 2
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Charles Barter (83), author and Natal magistrate, dies in Pietermaritzburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: units under Gen. Hunter occupy Lichtenburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Roodewal Siding takes place near Koppies, OFS. Gen. De Wet and eighty men attack two comp
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F.W. Reitz, former president of the OFS, becomes state secretary of the ZAR in the place of Dr W.J. Leyds, who is appointed to
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Hyde Villiers Clarendon, governor-general of the Union of SA from 1931 to 1937, is born.
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Britain and United States sign treaty to suppress the slave trade.
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The Rev. Francis Owen, missionary in South Africa, is born in London.
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Adam Tas marries Elizabeth van Brakel, wealthy widow of Hans Jurgen Grimpe, and becomes the owner of the farm, which he later c
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President Thabo Mbeki distances himself in parliament from the controversial “Native Club” and criticise its racial exclusivity
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Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele breaks the 10 000m world record in 26 minutes 20.32 seconds.
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, beats Slovenia 1-0.
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Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha dies suddenly of a heart attack, opening the way for democracy in the country.
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The Cobra militia of former President Denis Sassou-Nguesso takes control of the centre of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, wins 3-0 against Zambia in a home game.
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Two months after the start of the carnage in Rwanda, the UN Security Council approves the dispatch of 5 500 peacekeepers with a
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Delegates at Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, approve new UN body, Agenda 21, to monitor compliance with environmental t
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President F.W. de Klerk pays a two-day visit to Kenya.
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South African Airways is given permission to fly over the bulge of Africa for the first time in twenty-eight years.
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ANC leader Nelson Mandela says in Geneva, Switzerland, that SA’s Black population is prepared to suffer the consequences of san
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The provincial synod of the Anglican Church passes a resolution to discourage the singing of ‘Die Stem’ and to use ‘Nkosi Sikel
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Makhosi Nyoka, Lindiwe Mthembu, Surendra Naidu and Nontsikelelo Cothoza, all ANC members, are shot in an ambush near Piet Retie
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More than one million Black South African workers, following a call by South Africa’s two biggest trade unions, the Congress of
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123 White ministers and theologians of the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk) Family issue a statement in w
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State Land Disposal Act No 23 commences.
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Security police arrive at Naledi High School and attempt to arrest the leader of the local branch of the SA Students Movement.
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SA loses the first rugby test match of the series against the British Lions 3-12 on Newlands, Cape Town.
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The SA rugby team beats the British Lions 25-20 in Pretoria.
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South Africa officially refuses an invitation to send representatives to an international seminar on apartheid, to be held in B
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