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The troopship SS Mendi collides with the Darro near the Isle of Wright. It sinks with a contingent of Black SA troops, on t
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WW1: Battle of Verdun in France begins with a massive German artillery bombardment. It is the longest and bloodiest battle
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Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician and soldier in WW1, is born in Caledon, Western Cape.
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Jacob Daniël du Toit (Totius), poet and Afrikaans Bible translator, is born in the Paarl vicinity, CC.
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Chief Justice F.W. Reitz opens the first session of the supreme court of the Orange Free State.
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Henriëtte Ester Carolina Oberholzer, co-founder of the South African Women’s Federation and the Langlaagte Orphanage and membe
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Walter Benson Rubusana, founder member of the ANC, is born at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His
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The Neptune returns to England from Simons Bay, where it lay anchored from September 1849. Aboard are 288 prisoners who couldn’
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Hildagonda Johanna Duckitt, author of two books on culinary art, is born near Darling, CC.
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Britain returns the Cape formally to the Netherlands and the flag of the Batavian Republic is hoisted on the Castle. The agreem
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Free Burghers in the Cape receive their first agricultural plots. First legislation with regard to water rights come into actio
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Dalene Matthee (66), laurelled Afrikaans writer, dies of heart failure in a hospital in Mossel Bay. Her best-known book, Krin
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Raymond Mhlaba (85), African National Congress veteran, Rivonia trialist and first premier of the Eastern Cape Province, dies s
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A fire breaks out on a crowded train travelling from Cairo to Luxor in southern Egypt, killing 373 people and injuring sixty in
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe lashes out at international journalists and foreign governments, threatening to ban them fro
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A former president of the Eastern Cape Agricultural Union, Fred Pettit, is stabbed to death in his house near Queenstown.
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President F.W. de Klerk reshuffles his cabinet. This is to come into effect on 1 April 1993.
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Pres. F.W. de Klerk announces a referendum for 17 March to establish the opinion of White voters towards his political reform
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Britain announces it will unilaterally lift ban on new investments in South Africa.
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The Citizen reports that released ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, and his wife, Winnie, were granted passports to visit the ANC lea
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The Star reports that President P.W. Botha, opening the QwaQwa Legislative assembly, said that the non-independent homelands ha
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Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,
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At the end of the third meeting between Mozambique and South Africa, in Maputo, a joint statement is released announcing that t
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha describes the National Party policy of inter-racial consultation and joint responsibility, as ‘a form
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that the Ciskei will become fully independent on 4 December 1981.
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The Minister of Labour announces instructions to the Wage Board to revise certain determinations applying to unskilled labourer
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Joost van der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born.
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Morocco and Algeria sign accord to end border conflict which resulted in troop clashes.
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South Africa signs treaty amending the statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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