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Solomon K. Sedibane, S.A sculptor, is born in Sekhukhuneland, Transvaal.
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Dr Robert T. A. Innes (71), astronomer and secretary-accountant at the Cape observatory, dies in London.
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First commercial air route is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.
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Henning J. Klopper, Speaker of the Volksraad at the time of South Africa becoming a Republic, joins the Railways. He is later a
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Gen. David Johannes (Ou Kat) Joubert, South African explorer to East Africa, dies of malaria near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A Republican delegation consisting of A. Fischer, A.D.W. Wolmarans, C.H. Wessels with J.M. de Bruin as secret
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces under Lord Roberts take Bloemfontein.
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The Potchefstroom treaty between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, binding each state to assist the other w
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De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.
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Khoisan loot more than forty cattle from Cape Settlers.
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Bertie van Zyl (72), the owner of the biggest tomato farming industry in the country, ZZ2, is buried at Mooketsi, Limpopo. Amon
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Astronomers debunk a warning that a mile-wide asteroid might collide with Earth on October 26, 2028, saying the calculations we
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Burundi authorities arrest five people, including two soldiers, after they attempted to kill Burundian leader Maj. Pierre Buyoy
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Chief Lucas Mangope is deposed as leader of Bophuthatswana. Dr. Tjaart van der Walt is appointed as the territory’s new adminis
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Seven street children are burnt to death and eleven seriously injured in a fire in Elim church, Sunnyside, Pretoria. The culpri
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Citrusdal in the southwestern Cape becomes SA’s first officially recognised non-racial local authority.
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SA government tables a white paper to end racial discrimination in landownership and occupation.
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About 10 000 people march to the president’s office in Thohoyandou, carrying a human skull believed to be that of a ritual murd
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ANC president Oliver Tambo and vice-president Nelson Mandela meet for the first time in twenty-eight years in Sweden.
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SA government bans church-led opposition group headed by Desmond Tutu as “threat to public safety”.
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Sweden announces a total boycott on trade with South Africa effective from October.
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The Eminent Persons Group meets imprisoned ANC leader, Nelson Mandela.
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Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter
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A court in Pretoria sentences nine Blacks to terms of imprisonment from five to seven years on charges of training as guerrilla
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The Nederduitse Gereformerde Kerk (NGK) together with its sister church for Blacks (the NGK in Afrika), Coloureds (the NG Sendi
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Lilian Masediba Ngoyi, born in Gamatlala near Pretoria in 1911, dressmaker, political activist and trade unionist who spent sev
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In the wake of strikes in Natal in February, The Guardian publishes a documented report on the low wages paid to Black workers
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Arno Carstens, lead singer of the rock group Springbok Nude Girls, is born in Worcester, Western Cape.
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Mauritius officially achieves independence from Britain.
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