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The overnight Zulu attack on Rorke’s Drift ends at about 4 a.m.

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For the fifth time in a row a South African driver has won the Rotax Grand Final World karting championship in Lanzarote, Canar

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Government spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe announces that Pres. Mbeki has appointed advocate Vusumzi P. Pikoli as the National D

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Daantjie van den Heever (67), former captain of the Northern Transvaal rugby team, dies in Pretoria.

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Justice M. Stegmann records an open finding in the inquest into the murder of Witwatersrand University academic Dr David Webste

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Seven members of the Nkwazi family, ANC, are shot dead at their home in Empusheni, Natal.

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President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are awarded the Unesco Peace Prize. They received the prize on 3 February.

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King Moshoeshoe II is given legislative and executive powers by the newly established Military Council of Lesotho.

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The UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.

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Student committees decide to end the boycott of Black schools, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) having declared i

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Percy Qoboza, who had resigned as editor of the Post papers on 13 January 1981 and left immediately for the United States, says

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At a meeting of the newly organised Soweto Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t

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At a meeting between John Vorster and eight ‘homelands’ leaders, strong representations are made to the Prime Minister on the d

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The results of an informal poll amongst White sportsmen show that of 101 sportsmen questioned, seventy-nine were in favour of m

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In Nigeria it is disclosed that Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is dead, apparently slain in coup a week earlier.

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Kenneth Kaunda becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).

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Jan Volsckenk (89), well-known South African painter, dies in Riversdal, CP.

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Rescue attempts are put into operation to save 435 trapped mineworkers at the Coalbrook pithead near Sasolburg in the Free Stat

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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of t

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Axis forces pull out of Tripoli and head back towards Tunisia.

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Hundreds of Zulu men protesting against paying the Natal Poll Tax, threaten to kill their magistrate Mr. R E Dunn

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Danish farmers donate 12 000 boxes of butter to British troops in South Africa.

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The British (no 1) supply column moving up the North Coast towards Eshowe is attacked by about 5000 Zulus as they cross the Nye

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Cetewayo’s impis wipe out British troops at Isandhlwana in one of the worst disasters in British military history, stabbing 127

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Piet Retief completes the manifesto, which sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is publi

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Sir George Napier becomes Governor of the Cape. The date of his arrival at the Cape is given as early in 1938 by Potgieter (19

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Groot Constantia, which shipped wine to Napoleon in exile on the island of St Helena until his death in 1821, concludes another

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A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern Cape and confirm

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Turkish troops take Cairo, Egypt.

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Approximately ten thousand residents of Pretoria attend the Tshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations on Church Square. Afro

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The overnight Zulu attack on Rorke’s Drift ends at about 4 a.m.

For the fifth time in a row a South African driver has won the Rotax Grand Final World karting championship in Lanzarote, Canar

Government spokesperson Joel Netshitenzhe announces that Pres. Mbeki has appointed advocate Vusumzi P. Pikoli as the National D

Daantjie van den Heever (67), former captain of the Northern Transvaal rugby team, dies in Pretoria.

Justice M. Stegmann records an open finding in the inquest into the murder of Witwatersrand University academic Dr David Webste

Seven members of the Nkwazi family, ANC, are shot dead at their home in Empusheni, Natal.

President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are awarded the Unesco Peace Prize. They received the prize on 3 February.

King Moshoeshoe II is given legislative and executive powers by the newly established Military Council of Lesotho.

The UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.

Student committees decide to end the boycott of Black schools, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) having declared i

Percy Qoboza, who had resigned as editor of the Post papers on 13 January 1981 and left immediately for the United States, says

At a meeting of the newly organised Soweto Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t

At a meeting between John Vorster and eight ‘homelands’ leaders, strong representations are made to the Prime Minister on the d

The results of an informal poll amongst White sportsmen show that of 101 sportsmen questioned, seventy-nine were in favour of m

In Nigeria it is disclosed that Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is dead, apparently slain in coup a week earlier.

Kenneth Kaunda becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).

Jan Volsckenk (89), well-known South African painter, dies in Riversdal, CP.

Rescue attempts are put into operation to save 435 trapped mineworkers at the Coalbrook pithead near Sasolburg in the Free Stat

The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of t

Axis forces pull out of Tripoli and head back towards Tunisia.

Hundreds of Zulu men protesting against paying the Natal Poll Tax, threaten to kill their magistrate Mr. R E Dunn

Anglo-Boer War 2: Danish farmers donate 12 000 boxes of butter to British troops in South Africa.

The British (no 1) supply column moving up the North Coast towards Eshowe is attacked by about 5000 Zulus as they cross the Nye

Cetewayo’s impis wipe out British troops at Isandhlwana in one of the worst disasters in British military history, stabbing 127

Piet Retief completes the manifesto, which sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is publi

Sir George Napier becomes Governor of the Cape. The date of his arrival at the Cape is given as early in 1938 by Potgieter (19

Groot Constantia, which shipped wine to Napoleon in exile on the island of St Helena until his death in 1821, concludes another

A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern Cape and confirm

Turkish troops take Cairo, Egypt.

Approximately ten thousand residents of Pretoria attend the Tshwane Metro’s 5th anniversary celebrations on Church Square. Afro