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Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.
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South African Indian Council Act No 31 commences. It establishes a Council consisting of 25 members appointed by the Minister o
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Three Bills dealing with the future of the Coloured population are introduced: the Prohibition of Improper Interference Bill; t
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Sheiks Mutondi Makhado, businessman and well-known leader in the area of Black economic empowerment, is born in Johannesburg. H
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American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has been largely eradica
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The cattle looting expedition commanded by Gen. Bruce Hamilton, King Dinizulu and Chief Sikhobobo arrives bac
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Cecil John Rhodes (48), diamond magnate and premier of the Cape Colony, dies in Muizenberg. (Burne: Chronicle of the World;
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Jackie Tindall, SA rugby Springbok is born in Stellenbosch.
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A proclamation is published in the Official Gazette of the ZAR, prohibiting the hunting of game in the area between the Crocodi
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Reinhold Gregorowski is appointed a judge in the Orange Free State at the age of 25.
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Sir Arnold Theiler, father of the research institute at Onderstepoort, Pretoria, is born in Frick, Switzerland.
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Christiaan Willem Hendrik van der Post, member of the Volksraad in the Free State, consul of the Netherlands and poet, is born
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Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, Free State commander and founder of the town Marquard, is born.
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British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’. Warden and his family take up res
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The first congregation of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Transvaal is instituted in Potchefstroom. The Rev. Daniel Lind
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The town of Wellington is founded.
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About $11.39m (about R69m) is stolen in a carefully planned robbery from an SAA plane at Johannesburg International Airport.
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The Griqua people gather in Philippolis (25-27 March) to celebrate with the theme “Griqua return to your heritage”. (News Bulle
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Pedestrian Week (25-31 March) during Alive Pedestrian Month starts, aiming to raise public awareness around pedestrian issues.
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US President Bill Clinton, on a visit to Rwanda, acknowledges that the United States and the world failed to protect Rwandans f
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American troops withdraw from Somalia after a 16-month humanitarian mission marred by fighting with the Somalis.
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The African National Congress (ANC) leads a march through central Durban, attended by up to 100,000 people, to demand their vot
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Gunmen storm the military compound of President Eyadema in Loma, Togo, and kill his top military aide, then flee from governmen
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The first of more than 100 persons to die during the ‘Seven Day’s War’, is murdered outside Pietermaritzburg. About 30,000 peop
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Suspected guerrillas using RPG 7 rocket-launchers attack the Soweto City Council offices. An hour later, 3 limpet mine blas
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Heads of Egypt, Jordan and Palestine Liberation Organisation meet to co-ordinate Middle East peace strategy.
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Michael Lucas is hanged for the murder on a bus conductor during riots in Oudtshoorn.
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Pres. P.W. Botha issues a certificate to prevent the Windhoek Supreme Court from trying six SA Defence Force personnel for the
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In an important policy shift, South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louis NeI, discloses that his government is se
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