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Chad breaks links to Libya in protest to their support of Muslim guerrillas currently fighting in northern Chad.

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Rhodesian security forces launch a full-scale search for a gang, which massacred seven White Roman Catholic missionaries three

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Israelis sink a 700-ton Egyptian minelayer in the Gulf of Suez in reprisal for the sinking of two Israeli ships at Elath.

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The Prime Minister announces that all Coloured people will be removed from the common voters’ roll.

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Apartheid is to be tightened up at the Pretoria Zoo after a complaint from a visitor that the zoo was ‘over-run with Blacks’ on

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Prof. Otto Reinecke (75), SA fruit expert, dies in Pretoria.

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Rev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.

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The first extra mural classes at the Goudstadse Onderwyskollege (Goudstad College of Education) commence.

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Walter Sisulu addresses an African National Congress meeting in Durban and gives a comprehensive account of his travel through

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C.W.H. Kohler, first chairman of the KWV, dies in Vishoek, CP one day before his 90th birthday.

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Britain’s King George VI dies and is succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. Her husband, Prince Philip, informs her of his de

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Prof. Willem Sybrand Logeman (81), important role player in the founding of the library of the University of Cape Town, dies.

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Patrick Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal.

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Arthur Wellesley Briscoe, SA cricket player in 3 test matches, is born in Johannesburg.

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Belgian aviator Albert Kimmerling gives a successful flying display in Johannesburg, an event marking the start of serious avia

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French agreement with Ethiopia to finance railway construction provokes protests from Britain and Italy.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Chrissiesmeer (Lake Chrissie) takes place.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Vaalkrans (Vaalkrantz) continues.

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William Ayliff is appointed minister of “Bantu Affairs” in the Cape Colony in the first cabinet of Sir John Gordon Sprigg. He h

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Sir Gordon Sprigg forms his first ministry in the Cape at the request of the governor, Sir Bartle Frere.

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At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants

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Zulu king Dingane signs the treaty drafted by Retief on February 4 in which he declares his approval to grant an extensive area

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Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, later mi

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The “Vryburgers” proclaim the Republic of Graaff-Reinet.

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Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel apologises for his country’s role in the 1961 assassination of then-Congolese leader Patr

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In Durban, a commuter train collides with a freight train and eighteen people are killed.

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Second round of talks between Libya and the South African and Saudi Arabian envoys in connection with the Lockerbie bombing.

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President Nelson Mandela delivers his last major address to parliament.

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The SAPS Amenment Act, 1998, providing a legal framework for municipal police services, comes into effect.

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Up to 200 Somali youths hurl rocks at US forces and set tyre barricades ablaze in the belief that American troops shot to death

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Chad breaks links to Libya in protest to their support of Muslim guerrillas currently fighting in northern Chad.

Rhodesian security forces launch a full-scale search for a gang, which massacred seven White Roman Catholic missionaries three

Israelis sink a 700-ton Egyptian minelayer in the Gulf of Suez in reprisal for the sinking of two Israeli ships at Elath.

The Prime Minister announces that all Coloured people will be removed from the common voters’ roll.

Apartheid is to be tightened up at the Pretoria Zoo after a complaint from a visitor that the zoo was ‘over-run with Blacks’ on

Prof. Otto Reinecke (75), SA fruit expert, dies in Pretoria.

Rev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.

The first extra mural classes at the Goudstadse Onderwyskollege (Goudstad College of Education) commence.

Walter Sisulu addresses an African National Congress meeting in Durban and gives a comprehensive account of his travel through

C.W.H. Kohler, first chairman of the KWV, dies in Vishoek, CP one day before his 90th birthday.

Britain’s King George VI dies and is succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. Her husband, Prince Philip, informs her of his de

Prof. Willem Sybrand Logeman (81), important role player in the founding of the library of the University of Cape Town, dies.

Patrick Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal.

Arthur Wellesley Briscoe, SA cricket player in 3 test matches, is born in Johannesburg.

Belgian aviator Albert Kimmerling gives a successful flying display in Johannesburg, an event marking the start of serious avia

French agreement with Ethiopia to finance railway construction provokes protests from Britain and Italy.

Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Chrissiesmeer (Lake Chrissie) takes place.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Vaalkrans (Vaalkrantz) continues.

William Ayliff is appointed minister of “Bantu Affairs” in the Cape Colony in the first cabinet of Sir John Gordon Sprigg. He h

Sir Gordon Sprigg forms his first ministry in the Cape at the request of the governor, Sir Bartle Frere.

At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants

Zulu king Dingane signs the treaty drafted by Retief on February 4 in which he declares his approval to grant an extensive area

Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, later mi

The “Vryburgers” proclaim the Republic of Graaff-Reinet.

Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel apologises for his country’s role in the 1961 assassination of then-Congolese leader Patr

In Durban, a commuter train collides with a freight train and eighteen people are killed.

Second round of talks between Libya and the South African and Saudi Arabian envoys in connection with the Lockerbie bombing.

President Nelson Mandela delivers his last major address to parliament.

The SAPS Amenment Act, 1998, providing a legal framework for municipal police services, comes into effect.

Up to 200 Somali youths hurl rocks at US forces and set tyre barricades ablaze in the belief that American troops shot to death