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The first gold (61 ounces) is sent from Kromdraai in the Witwatersrand to the Standard Bank in Pretoria.
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The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube, Zulu journalist and politician, is born in Inanda, Natal. Date is given as 12 February 187
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A thatched roof church is inaugurated on the square in Pretoria – hence the name Church Square.
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Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in
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The last edition of James Archbell’s The Natal Independent and General Advertiser is published.
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The steamer Good Hope sinks off the Tsitsikamma coast.
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The Political Council agrees to Marthinus Bergh’s request that he and his two sons be allowed to go to the Netherlands to plea
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A young man on horseback races through the streets of Stellenbosch shouting “Victorie! Victorie!” – the sign that the burgher
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President Thabo Mbeki congratulates Lesotho’s Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili on his election to a third term in office, acco
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Miriam Makeba is nominated in the category World Music Album for her album Homeland at the 43rd Annual Grammy Awards in Los Ang
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Welfare and Population Development Minister, Abe Williams, resigns in the face of corruption allegations relating to missing pe
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Four people are shot dead in Nkowankowa after a mass meeting of 30 000 people in a local stadium.
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The Star newspaper reports that Defence Minister, Magnus A. Malan, knew as early as 1987 of a secret "hit squad" made
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Fifty political detainees who had gone on hunger strike are released from prison.
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Two bodyguards of Winnie Mandela are accused of the murder of Stompie Sepei (14).
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SA government opens “whites only” downtown districts of Johannesburg and Durban to all races in the first break with apartheid
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Government announces ninety-nine year leasehold rights for Blacks in three Cape Town townships in order to stop the riots over
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The Minister of Manpower, Fanie Botha, the leader of the Conservative Party, Dr. Andries Treurnicht, and one of his senior lieu
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South Africa warns Mozambique it will not hesitate to strike back if Mozambique continues to shelter guerrillas conducting murd
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George Matanzima becomes Premier of the Transkei.
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Dr Diederichs receives the unanimous vote of the Electoral College, consisting of members of both Houses of Parliament, to beco
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The first general elections to the Ciskei’s Legislative Assembly are held in the territory’s nine districts. There are no polit
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The Chairman of the South African Coloured Peoples Representative Council reports that the Prime Minister favours Coloureds gra
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A South African flag is torn to pieces and three Springbok lifesavers are attacked during a near-riot at the Melbourne ocean su
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Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (now the University of
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King Hussein of Morocco is awarded patent rights in America of a machine that monitors heart functions.
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The first verdict in Afrikaans is brought in Cape Town by the English speaking Judge R.P.B. Davies. (The first Afrikaans verdic
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Gordon Lovell Forbes, Springbok tennis player, is born in Burgersdorp, CP.
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Robert Mugabe, the first premier and president of Zimbabwe, is born.
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