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Anglo-Boer War 2: The youngest Boer commandant, 19 year old Commandant Piet van der Merwe and twenty-three burgers are killed i
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The youngest Boer commandant, 19 year old Commandant Piet van der Merwe and twenty-three burgers are killed i
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Parliament has been defrauded of about R17m by some MPs in the alleged voucher scam, according to SAA’s latest report.
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Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, is b
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Samuel Tshabalala wins the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades, the first Black person to win the race since the ban on their part
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South African Air Force pioneer Major-General Ken van der Spuy, veteran of both world wars and holder of fourteen decorations f
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Bram Fischer, son of a Judge President of the Orange Free State, grandson of a Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony, lawye
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Rijkloff van Goens leaves Table Bay after a stay of one month to report on what has been accomplished at the Cape.
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The first school is founded six years after Van Riebeeck’s arrival at the Cape, with sick-comforter Willem Wijland as religious
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Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes in “conflict situations”
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The UN ban on Rhodesian import and export, introduced on 16 December 1966, is expanded to include all trade with Rhodesia.
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Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan
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’Die Stem van Suid-Afrika’ (The Call of South Africa) is unanimously accepted as only official anthem in Parliament. The Englis
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On proposal of Sir Pierre van Ryneveld a special service battalion is instituted in Pretoria to provide work for young men afte
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act
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Bram Fischer, son of a Judge President of the Orange Free State, grandson of a Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony, lawye
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UN Security Council votes to ban flights and arms sales to Libya, branding it a terrorist state for shielding six men accused o
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According to press reports, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) accused the ANC of being "guilty of deceit and dup
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Vasco da Gama, on his way to the East, lands near present Mossel Bay, staying for a week. Aucklandpark: Federasie van Afri
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The South African Institute of Race Relations urges the lifting of a 24-year-old ban on the African National Congress (ANC).
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Shortly before midnight, a farmer, John Louis Steyn, 73, is found dead in his house on the Sand River smallholdings between Mak
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In line with the Record of Understanding reached between the SAG and ANC, forty-two political prisoners are released. The Natio
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Judgement starts in the Delmas trial. Mr Justice K. van Dijkhorst states that the state has proved that a dominant part of the
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Giriyondo border post opens. Tourists can now travel through the Kruger National Park to Mozambique. The border post is part of
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President Nelson Mandela and Steve Tshwete are given leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court against the verdict on the SAR
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Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi says he will not surrender two Libyans accused of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotl
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General Dan Pienaar is killed as his aircraft crashes into Lake Victoria at Kisumu while returning to South Africa. The suburbs
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Britain and France agree to accept a Middle East cease-fire in the Suez War if UN forces can keep the peace.
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