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De Natalier, Natal’s first newspaper, appears on this day.
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John X Merriman, future prime minister of the Cape Colony, is born in Somerset, England.
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The Church of the Vow in Pietermaritzburg is consecrated and Erasmus Smit is inducted as its first minister.
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Jan Stephanus de Villiers, organist and first South African composer of importance, is born in Paarl.
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Stephanus Schoeman, colourful figure in Transvaal history and commander-in-chief of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, is born ne
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Sir Joseph Banks, zoologist and botanist, describes the Kompanjiestuin and small zoo at the Cape in his diary.
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United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan addresses parliament in Cape Town. He urges African leaders to improve conditions i
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The Gauteng Academy of Sport, in conjunction with the universities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and the Witwatersrand and Vaal Uni
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A prison warder, Jacques Horne, 31, on escort duty is shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town’s Groot
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Between 30% and 45% of all agricultural workers are infected with HIV/Aids, Gretha Kostwinder, the agricultural attaché
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News 24 reports that South Africa’s ambitious HIV/Aids treatment plan is lagging as the government struggles to plug a shortage
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Yoweri Museveni is re-elected as Uganda’s president.
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Graham Armitage (63), SA actor and radio and TV personality, dies.
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While rebels advance rapidly in eastern Zaire, President Mobutu Sese Seko enters a Monaco hospital for complications from earli
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Protests by thousands of farmers around the country against land reform legislation and loss of tax rebates, and against the go
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Ten ANC supporters are killed in Gamalakhe, Natal, in an attack on a gathering.
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President Mangope extends the state of emergency, declared in four districts on 7 March, to the whole Bophuthatswana homeland.
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In an exclusive interview with "The Herald", the ANC military commander Joe Modise, states that the organisation coul
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Dr Fred du Plessis, chairman of Sanlam, is killed in a motor accident in the Western Cape.
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In response to a question in Parliament Dr Van Niekerk, minister of health, says that thirty-seven cases of AIDS have been diag
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The nuclear power station at Koeberg becomes operational.
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In a radio and television interview, Prime Minister P.W. Botha, sets out the principles on which he is leading the government t
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A bomb explosion damages the London office of the ANC.
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On his return from Paris, General Hendrik van den Bergh has his own passport impounded on orders from the minister of the inter
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Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat asks Parliament to cancel treaty with Soviet Union, charging that Moscow failed to provide arms t
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Mark Fish, SA football player, is born.
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Chief Matanzima calls upon the South African government to grant full independence to the Transkei within five years. The prime
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The largest concentration of national monuments in the country, the thirty-two restored buildings which had been damaged in the
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The Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) asks the national Olympic committees of Belgium, Great Britain, Japan, the Neth
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