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Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele, SA Minister of Housing, is born in Sophiatown.
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Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.
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A meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), African People’s Organisation (APO), Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaa
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Thomas Patrick Murray, trade unionist, is born in Johannesburg.
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Dr William Nicol, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and Administrator of Transvaal from 1948-1958, is born in Robertson, CC
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Bechuanaland becomes a British Protectorate, with its administration conducted from Mafeking (Mafikeng).
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) The 3-months siege of British soldiers in the Old Fort in Potchefstroom ends a
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): A peace agreement between the Transvaal Republic and England is ratified and
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William J. Burchell (71), botanist and explorer of the South African interior, dies in London.
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Sir Alfred Milner, Cape governor and SA High Commissioner, is born in Bonn, Germany.
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As far as known Henry D. Warden makes the first reference to Bloemfontein when he writes to the governor about a farm between P
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Sir Lowry Cole, Governor of the Cape, lays the foundation stone of St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town.
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World Meteorological Day.
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Noby Ngombane, 38, head of the Free State governments policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier’s office, is shot de
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Start of South African Games (22-26 March).
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SA wins the third cricket test against New Zealand in Wellington with 8 wickets and the series with 1-0.
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South African mercenaries, hired by the Papua New Guinea government to help crush a separatist rebellion, arrive back in South
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A notice banning the carrying of weapons in public in seventy magisterial districts is published in the Government Gazette.
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In the homeland of Ciskei, a mutiny by police and defence forces led to the resignation of Brigadier Oupa Gqozo. The TEC immedi
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Joint communiqué concerning the establishment of diplomatic relations with Congo is signed.
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Saul Tsotetsi (SACP), Alfred Yika (ANC) and Elias Mothloung (SACC employee) are killed when a hand grenade explodes in Sebokeng
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The SA government announces that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will be requested to help in repatri
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Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn
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SA signs an agreement with the Republic of Namibia to curb and prevent illegal fishing.
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Authorities ordered an inquiry into the funding of the Civil Co-operation Bureau, a secret military unit, accused of political
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After a meeting in Cape Town with President de Klerk, the Secretary of State James Baker 3rd said Mr. De Klerk has told him tha
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Mbulelo Ngona, who disappeared after a shootout with Lesotho police in February, disappears after allegedly seen being detained
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Mazizi Maqekeza, ANC member, is shot dead whilst in hospital in Maseru, Lesotho.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets the ANC in Zambia and fails to convince the organization to abandon the armed struggle.
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