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Bradman made 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th.

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The South African Air Force is established, the first of the Commonwealth air forces. Lt-Col. Pierre van Ryneveld is appointed

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Ivan Mitford-Barberton, teacher of art at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town and sculptor of several monuments in South A

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S. le Roux Marais (Stephanus), organist, teacher, pioneer of the art song (lieder) and composer of numerous songs in Afrikaans

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Harold Cressy, educationist and teacher, is born at Rorke’s Drift. He was the only Black student of the South African College (

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Hans Anton Aschenborn, German painter and graphic artist who stayed for several years in Namibia and South Africa and who illus

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A famous former primary school, the “Gedenkschool der Hugenoten”, is opened at Kleinbosch in Daljosafat, Cape.

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David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie’s Scotch settlers

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The territory north of the Great Berg River is annexed to the new district of Tulbagh, and declared a separate sub-drosdy with

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Louis van Assenburgh is appointed as successor to Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel at the Cape.

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Adelaide Frances Tambo (77), widow of Oliver Tambo, dies at her home in Johannesburg.

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A metrobus is hijacked in Rosettenville, Johannesburg.

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Nineteen people die and six are injured in a head on collision on the road between Standerton and Embalenhle, Mpumalanga.

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Royal sources announce Swaziland’s King Mswati III will introduce a 17-year-old schoolgirl as his 13th bride-to-be once she pas

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President Thabo Mbeki has a narrow escape in Abuja when he is nearly hit by a car shortly after the African Union heads-of-stat

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Six men are convicted in Mozambique of the November 2000 killing of investigative reporter Carlos Cardoso. The journalist was g

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A Kenyan Airplanes plane crashes into the sea off Côte d’Ivoire, killing all but ten of the 179 people on board. (Mail &amp;

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Quintus van Rooyen (62), authority on rugby who wrote for Beeld, dies of cancer in Pretoria.

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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Semi-finals versus Ghana 3-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg

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In Mogadishu, US Marines in a convoy carrying American diplomats open fire near a crowded food distribution centre. At least fi

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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against the Congo in an away game.

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The United States begins reassembling a Somali national police force to patrol Mogadishu’s lawless streets.

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According to figures from the South African Police, the number of unrest-related deaths in Natal since 1 September 1987 up to t

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President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu

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Allan Hendrickse, leader of the Labour Party, replaces Carter Ebrahim as Minister of Education and Culture in the House of Repr

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City Press reports that (White) matriculants of the Menlo Park High School held a sit-in protest and handed a petition to the p

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Bradman made 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th.

The South African Air Force is established, the first of the Commonwealth air forces. Lt-Col. Pierre van Ryneveld is appointed

The Tanganyika Railway is opened.

Douglas Hall, Governor of Somaliland Protectorate, is born.

Germany contests French rule in Morocco.

Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town.

Ivan Mitford-Barberton, teacher of art at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town and sculptor of several monuments in South A

S. le Roux Marais (Stephanus), organist, teacher, pioneer of the art song (lieder) and composer of numerous songs in Afrikaans

Harold Cressy, educationist and teacher, is born at Rorke’s Drift. He was the only Black student of the South African College (

Hans Anton Aschenborn, German painter and graphic artist who stayed for several years in Namibia and South Africa and who illus

A famous former primary school, the “Gedenkschool der Hugenoten”, is opened at Kleinbosch in Daljosafat, Cape.

David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie’s Scotch settlers

The territory north of the Great Berg River is annexed to the new district of Tulbagh, and declared a separate sub-drosdy with

Louis van Assenburgh is appointed as successor to Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel at the Cape.

Adelaide Frances Tambo (77), widow of Oliver Tambo, dies at her home in Johannesburg.

A metrobus is hijacked in Rosettenville, Johannesburg.

Nineteen people die and six are injured in a head on collision on the road between Standerton and Embalenhle, Mpumalanga.

Royal sources announce Swaziland’s King Mswati III will introduce a 17-year-old schoolgirl as his 13th bride-to-be once she pas

President Thabo Mbeki has a narrow escape in Abuja when he is nearly hit by a car shortly after the African Union heads-of-stat

Six men are convicted in Mozambique of the November 2000 killing of investigative reporter Carlos Cardoso. The journalist was g

A Kenyan Airplanes plane crashes into the sea off Côte d’Ivoire, killing all but ten of the 179 people on board. (Mail &amp;amp;

Quintus van Rooyen (62), authority on rugby who wrote for Beeld, dies of cancer in Pretoria.

The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Semi-finals versus Ghana 3-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg

In Mogadishu, US Marines in a convoy carrying American diplomats open fire near a crowded food distribution centre. At least fi

The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against the Congo in an away game.

The United States begins reassembling a Somali national police force to patrol Mogadishu’s lawless streets.

According to figures from the South African Police, the number of unrest-related deaths in Natal since 1 September 1987 up to t

President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu

Allan Hendrickse, leader of the Labour Party, replaces Carter Ebrahim as Minister of Education and Culture in the House of Repr

City Press reports that (White) matriculants of the Menlo Park High School held a sit-in protest and handed a petition to the p

A Kenyan Airplanes plane crashes into the sea off Côte d’Ivoire, killing all but ten of the 179 people on board. (Mail &