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James Small, Springbok rugby wing, is born.

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Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in Meadowlands. The

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The first batch of Resisters who cross the Natal Transvaal border are arrested and given one month’s suspended sentence each.

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Edwin Alfred Conroy (67), Boer general and politician, dies in Parys, Orange Free State.

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WW2: Britain’s Eighth Army reaches Tunisian border.

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Prof. Pieter Potgieter, former moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church, is born in Bloemfontein.

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Manas Buthelezi, minister of religion and former Bishop of the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern A

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Edgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.

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Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon (54), South African born governor of Kenya, dies.

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WW1: Gen. Jan Smuts is appointed commander of the Allied forces in East Africa.

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A new department of the T.U.C. (Transvaal University College, situated in Johannesburg), consisting of the arts and science cou

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Two policemen are killed by a group of Blacks near Richmond, Natal, following local resistance to collection of poll-tax, which

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The British consul presents a White Paper on the atrocities being carried out by Belgium in the Congo Free State to the Belgian

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Christiaan de Wet invades the Cape Colony for the second time at Zanddrif, near Philippolis.

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Jim Muller, popular SA pianist who developed his own style, is born.

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Lodewicus Johannes du Plessis, academic and professor at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, who laid

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A scientist by the name of Koch discovers a vaccine successful in the prevention of , an animal disease that caused an in most

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Johannes Hendrik Conradie, administrator of the Cape, is born at Rietvlei, district of Prince Albert.

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William Hare (Gobo) Ashley, SA cricket player in a test against England (1888-1889), is born in Mowbray, Cape Town.

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Nicolaas Hofmeyr, clergyman, teacher, author of textbooks and composer, is born in Jacobsdal, CP.

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The first congregation of the Reformed Church (Gereformeerde Kerk) is founded in Rustenburg.

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Erasmus Smit, controversial clergyman among the Voortrekkers because of i.a. a degree of doubt concerning the legitimacy of his

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Commandant-General M.W. Pretorius installs Mpande as King of the Zulus after the power of Mpande’s brother, Dingane, is broken

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Cradock is proclaimed as a separate district.

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Louis Henri Meurant, pioneer of the Afrikaans language, is born in Cape Town.

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Muslims protest against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a

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SA Protea captain Graeme Smith scores his second hundred in three matches and Justin Kemp hammers a spectacular 80 off 50 balls

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News 24 reports that a delay with the awarding of a tender of billions of rands to renew Spoornet’s age-old locomotives is thre

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Hundreds of singing Ethiopians line Addis Ababa’s streets to welcome the return of a replica of the Ark of the Covenant looted

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Princess Margaret, 71, younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies.

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James Small, Springbok rugby wing, is born.

Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in Meadowlands. The

The first batch of Resisters who cross the Natal Transvaal border are arrested and given one month’s suspended sentence each.

Edwin Alfred Conroy (67), Boer general and politician, dies in Parys, Orange Free State.

WW2: Britain’s Eighth Army reaches Tunisian border.

Prof. Pieter Potgieter, former moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church, is born in Bloemfontein.

Manas Buthelezi, minister of religion and former Bishop of the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern A

Edgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.

Sir Robert Thorne Coryndon (54), South African born governor of Kenya, dies.

WW1: Gen. Jan Smuts is appointed commander of the Allied forces in East Africa.

A new department of the T.U.C. (Transvaal University College, situated in Johannesburg), consisting of the arts and science cou

Two policemen are killed by a group of Blacks near Richmond, Natal, following local resistance to collection of poll-tax, which

The British consul presents a White Paper on the atrocities being carried out by Belgium in the Congo Free State to the Belgian

Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Christiaan de Wet invades the Cape Colony for the second time at Zanddrif, near Philippolis.

Jim Muller, popular SA pianist who developed his own style, is born.

Lodewicus Johannes du Plessis, academic and professor at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, who laid

A scientist by the name of Koch discovers a vaccine successful in the prevention of , an animal disease that caused an in most

Johannes Hendrik Conradie, administrator of the Cape, is born at Rietvlei, district of Prince Albert.

William Hare (Gobo) Ashley, SA cricket player in a test against England (1888-1889), is born in Mowbray, Cape Town.

Nicolaas Hofmeyr, clergyman, teacher, author of textbooks and composer, is born in Jacobsdal, CP.

The first congregation of the Reformed Church (Gereformeerde Kerk) is founded in Rustenburg.

Erasmus Smit, controversial clergyman among the Voortrekkers because of i.a. a degree of doubt concerning the legitimacy of his

Commandant-General M.W. Pretorius installs Mpande as King of the Zulus after the power of Mpande’s brother, Dingane, is broken

Cradock is proclaimed as a separate district.

Louis Henri Meurant, pioneer of the Afrikaans language, is born in Cape Town.

Muslims protest against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a

SA Protea captain Graeme Smith scores his second hundred in three matches and Justin Kemp hammers a spectacular 80 off 50 balls

News 24 reports that a delay with the awarding of a tender of billions of rands to renew Spoornet’s age-old locomotives is thre

Hundreds of singing Ethiopians line Addis Ababa’s streets to welcome the return of a replica of the Ark of the Covenant looted

Princess Margaret, 71, younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies.