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Menelek, Emperor of Ethiopia, denounces Italian claims to a protectorate.

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William Cock (82), British settler who wanted to build a harbour at Port Alfred, dies in Grahamstown.

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Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb

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Daniel Lindley, an American Presbyterian clergyman, is formally ordained as minister of the Voortrekkers’ Pietermaritzburg cong

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Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Jameson raid into Transvaal, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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In a communiqué issued today, the African Union’s peace and security council lays out the responsibilities of a peace mi

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The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i

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Worms squirming on a fishhook feel no pain nor do crayfish and crabs cooked in boiling water, a scientific study funded by the

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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Angola ends in a tie with no goals scored.

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South Africa radio reports that C. Barnard and A.K. Myburgh have been sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment each for their par

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ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela says the European Community should retain sanctions against South Africa and warns of mass

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Mthunzi Njakazi, ANC member of Durban, is shot dead on street. This date may not be correct, as 28 January 1991 is given by tw

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The Commonwealth Committee on Southern Africa, after a three-day meeting in Harare, decides to seek ways to strengthen financia

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A number of women call on the government at a press conference to permit those men who refuse to serve in the army to make thei

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Natal is placed on flood alert as torrential rains lash the province.

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Mozambique stresses its continued support for the ANC in a statement made at the funeral of twelve ANC members killed in the So

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The Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, discloses in Parliament that during 1973 the government for political reasons banned a to

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The Prime Minister warns that the government will not hesitate to intervene, should campaigns by City Councils led by Johannesb

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The leader of the South African opposition, Sir de Villiers Graaff, agrees with the government that the composition of the prop

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The government publishes the draft of the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill intended to remove most of the remaining rights of Africans

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SA signs a most-favourednation trade agreement with Spain.

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Gen. J.C. Smuts is elected as premier in the fourth general election of the Union of South Africa. Burne: Chronicle of the Wo

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The British successfully end Senussi campaign in Egypt and Sudan.

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Fourteen White Natal policemen under Sub-Inspector Hunt ride out to arrest the culprits who threatened divisional magistrate T.

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Sannie Uys, author and mother of Uys and Francois Krige, is born near Swellendam, CC.

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Cetewayo (Cetshwayo), cousin of Chaka and the last king of independent Zululand, dies in Eshowe.

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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): The Battle of Ingogo Heights, near Schuinshoogte (also called the Battle of

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Marthinus Wessel Pretorius is elected president of the Orange Free State.

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The district of Colesberg is proclaimed.

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The Voortrekkers elect the first church council of the independent “Voortrekkerkerk”, with Sarel Cilliers as one of the deacons

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Menelek, Emperor of Ethiopia, denounces Italian claims to a protectorate.

William Cock (82), British settler who wanted to build a harbour at Port Alfred, dies in Grahamstown.

Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb

Daniel Lindley, an American Presbyterian clergyman, is formally ordained as minister of the Voortrekkers’ Pietermaritzburg cong

Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Jameson raid into Transvaal, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.

In a communiqué issued today, the African Union’s peace and security council lays out the responsibilities of a peace mi

The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i

Worms squirming on a fishhook feel no pain nor do crayfish and crabs cooked in boiling water, a scientific study funded by the

The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Angola ends in a tie with no goals scored.

South Africa radio reports that C. Barnard and A.K. Myburgh have been sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment each for their par

ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela says the European Community should retain sanctions against South Africa and warns of mass

Mthunzi Njakazi, ANC member of Durban, is shot dead on street. This date may not be correct, as 28 January 1991 is given by tw

The Commonwealth Committee on Southern Africa, after a three-day meeting in Harare, decides to seek ways to strengthen financia

A number of women call on the government at a press conference to permit those men who refuse to serve in the army to make thei

Natal is placed on flood alert as torrential rains lash the province.

Mozambique stresses its continued support for the ANC in a statement made at the funeral of twelve ANC members killed in the So

The Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, discloses in Parliament that during 1973 the government for political reasons banned a to

The Prime Minister warns that the government will not hesitate to intervene, should campaigns by City Councils led by Johannesb

The leader of the South African opposition, Sir de Villiers Graaff, agrees with the government that the composition of the prop

The government publishes the draft of the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill intended to remove most of the remaining rights of Africans

SA signs a most-favourednation trade agreement with Spain.

Gen. J.C. Smuts is elected as premier in the fourth general election of the Union of South Africa. Burne: Chronicle of the Wo

The British successfully end Senussi campaign in Egypt and Sudan.

Fourteen White Natal policemen under Sub-Inspector Hunt ride out to arrest the culprits who threatened divisional magistrate T.

Sannie Uys, author and mother of Uys and Francois Krige, is born near Swellendam, CC.

Cetewayo (Cetshwayo), cousin of Chaka and the last king of independent Zululand, dies in Eshowe.

Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): The Battle of Ingogo Heights, near Schuinshoogte (also called the Battle of

Marthinus Wessel Pretorius is elected president of the Orange Free State.

The district of Colesberg is proclaimed.

The Voortrekkers elect the first church council of the independent “Voortrekkerkerk”, with Sarel Cilliers as one of the deacons