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The Volksraad of the South African Republic (ZAR) passes a law denying the judicature the right to test Volksraad resolutions

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Ethiopian forces defeat Italians at Adwa, northern Ethiopia, ending Italy’s quest to create a substantial African colony.

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A.G. Visser, teacher, medical doctor and Afrikaans poet, is born in Fraserburg.

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Abraham Kriel, founder of the Abraham Kriel Orphanage in Langlaagte, is born in Franschhoek, CC.

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The Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating.

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Gaslights appear in Cape Town for the first time.

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On order of the Batavian Republic General Jacob Uitenhage de Mist installs J.W. Janssens as new governor of the Cape of Good

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Thousands of Cape Peninsula train commuters are left stranded when the deliberate destruction of a major cable throws the train

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President Teodoro Obiang Nguema thanks SA and Angola for warning him of the plot to overthrow his government and says it was fu

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South Africa wins the third cricket test match against Pakistan in Port Elizabeth, Fanie de Villiers’ last match, with 259 runs

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Despite US reservations, the Vatican establishes diplomatic relations with Libya.

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South African arms manufacturer Denel announces that it will unveil six new products at a United Arab Emirates weapons exhibiti

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South Africa abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand.

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Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreats from his capital in the face of a popular uprising

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Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach against the fund

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Welcome Ncita, junior featherweight of SA, wins the International Boxing Federation title (IBF).

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The Venda administration unbans the ANC, PAC, SACP and Venda Independent Party.

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Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been

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SA signs an agreement concerning the status of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group to Namibia.

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The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr

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During the night the ANC mounts a sabotage attack on a petrol depot in which five storage tanks are damaged.

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The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft

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Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat

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Percy Qoboza, editor of the banned newspaper, The World, is released from detention, together with nine other Black leaders sei

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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports that following Transkei’s land claims a thorough inqu

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In the Senate the United Party calls for the convening by the Prime Minister of a conference of all race groups to discuss a co

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All South African policemen in Rhodesia are being confined to camps. South Africa is slowly disengaging from the settlement sit

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The Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, meets John Vorster for talks of a confidential nature.

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Joshua Oupa Gqozo, former Ciskei military ruler, is born in Kroonstad, OFS.

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Victor Smith makes one of the first successful forced landings in South Africa, en route from Cape Town to London on a solo fli

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The Volksraad of the South African Republic (ZAR) passes a law denying the judicature the right to test Volksraad resolutions

Ethiopian forces defeat Italians at Adwa, northern Ethiopia, ending Italy’s quest to create a substantial African colony.

A.G. Visser, teacher, medical doctor and Afrikaans poet, is born in Fraserburg.

Abraham Kriel, founder of the Abraham Kriel Orphanage in Langlaagte, is born in Franschhoek, CC.

The Cape Agulhas lighthouse begins operating.

Gaslights appear in Cape Town for the first time.

On order of the Batavian Republic General Jacob Uitenhage de Mist installs J.W. Janssens as new governor of the Cape of Good

Thousands of Cape Peninsula train commuters are left stranded when the deliberate destruction of a major cable throws the train

President Teodoro Obiang Nguema thanks SA and Angola for warning him of the plot to overthrow his government and says it was fu

South Africa wins the third cricket test match against Pakistan in Port Elizabeth, Fanie de Villiers’ last match, with 259 runs

Despite US reservations, the Vatican establishes diplomatic relations with Libya.

South African arms manufacturer Denel announces that it will unveil six new products at a United Arab Emirates weapons exhibiti

South Africa abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand.

Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreats from his capital in the face of a popular uprising

Police in Cairo kill at least twenty Muslim extremists in raids, displaying an increasingly hard-line approach against the fund

Welcome Ncita, junior featherweight of SA, wins the International Boxing Federation title (IBF).

The Venda administration unbans the ANC, PAC, SACP and Venda Independent Party.

Proclamation No 4, giving the President power to make emergency regulations and to govern the state of emergency which has been

SA signs an agreement concerning the status of the United Nations Transition Assistance Group to Namibia.

The Weekly Mail reports that former national chairman of the ANC, Govan Mbeki, was refused a passport in March to visit his thr

During the night the ANC mounts a sabotage attack on a petrol depot in which five storage tanks are damaged.

The trial begins in the Natal Supreme Court of the mercenaries accused of hijacking an airliner to flee from the Seychelles aft

Over fifty squatters begin a hunger strike in St. George’s Cathedral, Cape Town, protesting against evictions from Nyanga squat

Percy Qoboza, editor of the banned newspaper, The World, is released from detention, together with nine other Black leaders sei

The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, reports that following Transkei’s land claims a thorough inqu

In the Senate the United Party calls for the convening by the Prime Minister of a conference of all race groups to discuss a co

All South African policemen in Rhodesia are being confined to camps. South Africa is slowly disengaging from the settlement sit

The Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, meets John Vorster for talks of a confidential nature.

Joshua Oupa Gqozo, former Ciskei military ruler, is born in Kroonstad, OFS.

Victor Smith makes one of the first successful forced landings in South Africa, en route from Cape Town to London on a solo fli