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Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog announces in Parliament the final coalition agreement with Gen. J.C. Smuts.

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The Rand mineworkers’ revolt intensifies when three mineworkers are shot and killed outside the prison in Boksburg.

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Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist, community leader and a keen athlete, is born in Engcobo, Transkei.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Abortive Middelburg peace talks between Lord Kitchener and Commandant-General Louis Botha takes place during

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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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Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog announces in Parliament the final coalition agreement with Gen. J.C. Smuts.

The Rand mineworkers’ revolt intensifies when three mineworkers are shot and killed outside the prison in Boksburg.

Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist, community leader and a keen athlete, is born in Engcobo, Transkei.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Abortive Middelburg peace talks between Lord Kitchener and Commandant-General Louis Botha takes place during

Anglo-Boer War 2: Despite his age and a painful eye infection, President Kruger leaves Pretoria by train for the Natal Front

Anglo-Boer War 2: The British relieves Ladysmith after a siege of four months when reinforcements under Buller arrive.

Johannes J. Fagan, SA composer of mainly orchestral music, is born in Tulbach, Cape.

Stephanus J. Roos is shot on patrol in the Middelburg district, eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), some months after Comdt.

Henri Edouard Prosper Breuli, archaeologist attached to the University of the Witwatersrand, is born in Mortain, France.

Sytzke Wopkes Wierda, designer of the Raadsaal on Church Square, Pretoria, Paardekraal monument in Krugersdorp and a number of

The Rev. Meent Borcherds, moderator of the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and expert on the early history of the settlement

Adam Tas is arrested by magistrate Starrenburg because he compiled the petition for the Cape burghers against Governor W.A. van

Seven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park. Four SANParks employees are

In an attack described by Mukesh Kapila, top official of the UN in Sudan, government-allied militia (known as Janjawiet), rape

The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the home game against Gabon 4-1.

Nigeria elects General Olusegun Obasanjo in the first presidential elections after fifteen years of military rule, but the resu

US Vice-President Al Gore announces that the US is lifting a 35-year-old arms embargo against South Africa.

Two US soldiers are wounded in a fire-fight with Somalis in Mogadishu.

Mr Madondo, Thokoza Civic Association, is killed in his house by a group of unknown men.

Lucas Mbembe (60), ANC official and chair of the Western Cape Hostel Dwellers Association, is gunned down after coming from a c

Thousands of teachers in Venda boycott classes to back demands for better pay.

The Gazankulu administration announces that sixteen people have been killed since 19 February, two vehicles have been destroyed

Six pupils and teachers are killed and more than eighty injured when the taxi feud spills over to Katlehong schools.

Nelson Mandela meets ANC officials in Lusaka.

Sithembiso and Siphephelo Dkamini, both Clermont Youth League members, are killed in Sithengele High School.

Amos Boshomane, unionist (SEAWU) of Germiston, is shot dead after having survived an earlier attack on 25 November 1987.

Riot police and security force soldiers raid the Allan Taylor residence of the University of Natal, three days after the bannin

Members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) march to Pretoria and call for a Volkstaat for the Afrikaner people.

The recommendations of the Strydom Committee on the Group Areas Act and related laws that central business districts in major c

The minister of police announces the arrest of five further alleged Wit Kommando members.