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Anglo-Boer War 2: Despite his age and a painful eye infection, President Kruger leaves Pretoria by train for the Natal Front
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British relieves Ladysmith after a siege of four months when reinforcements under Buller arrive.
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Johannes J. Fagan, SA composer of mainly orchestral music, is born in Tulbach, Cape.
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Stephanus J. Roos is shot on patrol in the Middelburg district, eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), some months after Comdt.
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Henri Edouard Prosper Breuli, archaeologist attached to the University of the Witwatersrand, is born in Mortain, France.
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Sytzke Wopkes Wierda, designer of the Raadsaal on Church Square, Pretoria, Paardekraal monument in Krugersdorp and a number of
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The Rev. Meent Borcherds, moderator of the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and expert on the early history of the settlement
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Adam Tas is arrested by magistrate Starrenburg because he compiled the petition for the Cape burghers against Governor W.A. van
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Seven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park. Four SANParks employees are
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In an attack described by Mukesh Kapila, top official of the UN in Sudan, government-allied militia (known as Janjawiet), rape
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the home game against Gabon 4-1.
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Nigeria elects General Olusegun Obasanjo in the first presidential elections after fifteen years of military rule, but the resu
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US Vice-President Al Gore announces that the US is lifting a 35-year-old arms embargo against South Africa.
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Two US soldiers are wounded in a fire-fight with Somalis in Mogadishu.
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Mr Madondo, Thokoza Civic Association, is killed in his house by a group of unknown men.
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Lucas Mbembe (60), ANC official and chair of the Western Cape Hostel Dwellers Association, is gunned down after coming from a c
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Thousands of teachers in Venda boycott classes to back demands for better pay.
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The Gazankulu administration announces that sixteen people have been killed since 19 February, two vehicles have been destroyed
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Six pupils and teachers are killed and more than eighty injured when the taxi feud spills over to Katlehong schools.
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Nelson Mandela meets ANC officials in Lusaka.
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Sithembiso and Siphephelo Dkamini, both Clermont Youth League members, are killed in Sithengele High School.
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Amos Boshomane, unionist (SEAWU) of Germiston, is shot dead after having survived an earlier attack on 25 November 1987.
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Riot police and security force soldiers raid the Allan Taylor residence of the University of Natal, three days after the bannin
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Members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) march to Pretoria and call for a Volkstaat for the Afrikaner people.
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The recommendations of the Strydom Committee on the Group Areas Act and related laws that central business districts in major c
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The minister of police announces the arrest of five further alleged Wit Kommando members.
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First election giving Black majority full voting powers in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) takes place.
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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe (54), founder member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress, dies in the Kimberle
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Ethiopia’s cabinet resigns as military mutiny spreads from captured city of Asmara.
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