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WW2: Mega, the Italian headquarters in southern Abyssinia, falls to SA forces.

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Southern Rhodesian Minister of Railways H.W. Moffat visits Cape Town to discuss the building of Beit Bridge over the Limpopo Ri

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Samuel Marks (Sammy), diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and senator in the par

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The Cape Premier, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, resigns.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Paardeberg, which was to last up to 27 February, starts with an attack by the British under Maj

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Mr Denis Howell, the British Minister dealing with sport, says in the House of Commons that if the MCC selects Basil D’Oliviera

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Henry Charles Christopher (Harry) Wolhuter, game ranger in the Sabi Game Reserve (now Kruger National Park) from 1902-1946, die

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UN General Assembly adopts Asian-African resolution calling on Portugal to halt repressive measures against Angola.

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The General Assembly of the United Nations calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policy and adopts resolution 1016

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Paul Emile Rossouw, the first athlete in the world to jump higher than 2.13 m at the age of 16, is born in Springs.

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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in

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Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.

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Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in New Delhi, India.

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The 6th Australian Division of Lieutenant-General Dick O’Connor’s XIII Corps, takes Derna, Libya, after three days of fierce fi

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Magnus André De Merindol Malan, former SA Minister of Defence, 1980, is born in Pretoria.

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Prof. Pothinus Carl Matsiri Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, is born in Makot

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Mohandas Gandhi is released from prison by Gen. J.C. Smuts.

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William Anderson Bloomfield, Victoria Cross winner during WW1, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents came to South Africa

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A proclamation of Lord Charles Somerset prohibits the use of Dutch in courts, commencing 1March.

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US President Bush announces an initiative to spend $15bn over five years for Aids treatment and prevention in twelve African co

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In a direct defiance to South Africa’s patent laws, Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins

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In Egypt, a 32-year-old housewife is the first woman to file for divorce under a new law that doesn’t require women to prove ph

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date of a warship payment, used as evidence in the infamous Arms deal corruption scandal that rocked the ANC led South African

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The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) is incorporated as a private company with the State as sole shareholder.

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The ANC blame the killing of up to fourteen people and the injuring of twenty-six unemployed people in Alberton on ‘third force

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Two serving members of the army and a third man are arrested in connection with the attack on St James’s Church in Cape Town in

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Eight people are killed and 29 injured in riots outside a factory in Johannesburg.

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Ten mineworkers are killed in fighting between two rival groups at a hostel at Vaal Reefs Mine.

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French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.

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Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).

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WW2: Mega, the Italian headquarters in southern Abyssinia, falls to SA forces.

Southern Rhodesian Minister of Railways H.W. Moffat visits Cape Town to discuss the building of Beit Bridge over the Limpopo Ri

Samuel Marks (Sammy), diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and senator in the par

The Cape Premier, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, resigns.

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Paardeberg, which was to last up to 27 February, starts with an attack by the British under Maj

Mr Denis Howell, the British Minister dealing with sport, says in the House of Commons that if the MCC selects Basil D’Oliviera

Henry Charles Christopher (Harry) Wolhuter, game ranger in the Sabi Game Reserve (now Kruger National Park) from 1902-1946, die

UN General Assembly adopts Asian-African resolution calling on Portugal to halt repressive measures against Angola.

The General Assembly of the United Nations calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policy and adopts resolution 1016

Paul Emile Rossouw, the first athlete in the world to jump higher than 2.13 m at the age of 16, is born in Springs.

Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in

Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.

Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in New Delhi, India.

The 6th Australian Division of Lieutenant-General Dick O’Connor’s XIII Corps, takes Derna, Libya, after three days of fierce fi

Magnus André De Merindol Malan, former SA Minister of Defence, 1980, is born in Pretoria.

Prof. Pothinus Carl Matsiri Mokgokong, academic, principal and vice-chancellor of the University of the North, is born in Makot

Mohandas Gandhi is released from prison by Gen. J.C. Smuts.

William Anderson Bloomfield, Victoria Cross winner during WW1, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents came to South Africa

A proclamation of Lord Charles Somerset prohibits the use of Dutch in courts, commencing 1March.

US President Bush announces an initiative to spend $15bn over five years for Aids treatment and prevention in twelve African co

In a direct defiance to South Africa’s patent laws, Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian organisation, begins

In Egypt, a 32-year-old housewife is the first woman to file for divorce under a new law that doesn’t require women to prove ph

date of a warship payment, used as evidence in the infamous Arms deal corruption scandal that rocked the ANC led South African

The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) is incorporated as a private company with the State as sole shareholder.

The ANC blame the killing of up to fourteen people and the injuring of twenty-six unemployed people in Alberton on ‘third force

Two serving members of the army and a third man are arrested in connection with the attack on St James’s Church in Cape Town in

Eight people are killed and 29 injured in riots outside a factory in Johannesburg.

Ten mineworkers are killed in fighting between two rival groups at a hostel at Vaal Reefs Mine.

French marines land in Kinshasa, Zaire, to free French nationals confined to the embassy.

Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).