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Anglo-Boer War 2: In Bethlehem, OFS, a Black man called Frans is tried by the British, found guilty, sentenced to death and h
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Bantu Holomisa, former ruler of the Transkei, claims that President Mandela had told him that Sol Kerzner (former head of Sun I
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Field-cornet Salmon van As is executed by a firing squad after being found guilty by a British Martial court of murdering Ca
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Theophilus (Offy) Shepstone, son of Sir Theophilus and adviser of Mbandzeni, chief of the Swazi nation, is born in Fort Peddie.
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A member of the three-man Presidential Council of the PAC, David M. Sibeko, dies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, after being shot t
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Adriaan Vlok, former minister of Law and Order and Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former police commissioner, tells the TRC former P
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Lieutenant C.D. Kimber, son of the Lord Mayor of London, is killed while attempting to rescue a wounded soldie
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Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott in which he cedes sover
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When Albertina marries Walter Sisulu, Anton Lembede warns her that she is marrying a man who is already married to the nation.
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Last day of Cornelis van Qualbergen as commander at the Cape, a position that he has held since 1666. Jacob Borghorst succe
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Gov. Simon van der Stel sends Isak Schrijver with fifteen soldiers and three mineworkers to the north to look for copper.
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The PAC announces in Dan es Salaam that it has reinstated seventy-two members expelled from the movement in July 1978.
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Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&eacut
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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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General Jan Smuts declares martial law in the Transvaal after mobilising the active citizen force in a bid to quell the dispute
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The Rev. Evert Jean Jacques van der Horst, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and member of parliament for Wolmaransstad, is
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All Gwede’s horses and all Gwede’s men… can’t put Cosatu together again by Stephen Grootes (The Daily Maverick), 11 November 2014
There is probably no one alive today with the intimate knowledge of all the organisations of the alliance that Gwede Mantashe possesses. He’s been Chair of the…
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Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk announces curbs on universities in terms of which they can have their subsidies cu
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A Rhodesian plane is shot down with a SAM 7 missile and thirty-eight of the fifty-six passengers are killed instantly, while gu
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John Wiley, former leader of the South African Party, is elected as National Party member for Simonstown, defeating the PFP can
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Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert is chosen as the Leader of the Opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP) in succession to Colin
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Prime Minister Vorster says that the number of diplomats from African and Asian countries can be expected to increase, as South
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Ndamase, son of Pondo chief Faku and first paramount chief of Western Pondoland, dies. In 1869 Governor Sir Philip Wodehouse at
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Christiaan Andries van Niekerk, commandant in the Anglo-Boer War 2 (one of only six persons to vote against the conclusion of p
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Jan Hendrik Boom, gardener at the Cape, and his wife Annetjie (Annetjie de Boerin), receive permission to farm and keep dairy c
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Wheelchair athlete Ernst van Dyk, cut off from a certain gold medal by Mexico’s Saul Mendoza in the 1 500m final Athens Pa
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A seven-man delegation of Coloured leaders flies from Cape Town to Pretoria to meet the Prime Minister for discussions on the f
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The explorer John Speke (37), first White man to reach the origin of the Nile River, kills himself in a shooting accident.
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Former law and order minister Adriaan Vlok and former police chief Johan van der Merwe, together with former Major-General Chri
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