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South Africa signs a multilateral procès-verbal extending the declaration on the provisional accession of the Swiss Confederat

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Nationalist Party wins three by-elections with a larger majority than in the 1958 general election.

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Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po

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Henry Cornelius, SA born British movie director, dies.

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Mau Mau activists in Kenya kill nineteen Kikuyu ‘home guards’.

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WWII: US supply ships finally reach the British Middle East army at the Suez Canal.

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Mussolini announces that 400,000 Italians will be going to Ethiopia as settlers.

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The first memorial stamps with surtax are issued in SA. They are known as the Voortrekker Memorial Stamps.

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The second census of the Union of South Africa takes place.

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Turkey cedes the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

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Bambata Rebellion: The Dundee-based troops leave the town and proceed to Nkandla.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: A battle takes place between the British forces under Lord Roberts and the Boers under Gen. De la Rey at Bran

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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,

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Petrus Johannes Lemmer, composer of Afrikaans songs, is born in Hartbeesfontein, near Klerksdorp, Transvaal.

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South Zambesia and North Zambesia (Zambia) are&nbsp;united as Rhodesia Protectorate.

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Prof. François Ernst Johannes Malherbe, lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and literary critic, is born in the distric

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In reply to a letter by the Rev. John Ayliff, missionary amongst the Fingos (Mfengu), on behalf of this landless society, Sir B

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The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the

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Voortrekker leader Piet Retief is baptised in Drakenstein, Western Cape.

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World Press Freedom Day.

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Cricket coach Bob Woolmer is cremated in a private ceremony attended only by close relatives in Cape Town. It is believed that

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An airliner carrying seventy-nine people crashes into residential blocks as it prepares to land at Nigeria’s Kano airport, kill

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Bambata Rebellion: General mobilisation of Natal militia, with an appeal to the neighbouring states for assistance. To this, Tr

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After the abolition of the triumvirate, Paul Kruger is elected president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek for the first time.

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Gen. Johannes Jacobus Pienaar, administrator of Transvaal, is born in Ladybrand, OFS.

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Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant and leader of the burghers who drove Landdros Maynier away in 1795, is born. Van

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Hannah Botha (84), veteran actress and one of the main characters in Egoli, dies in Johannesburg.

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Kenyans dominate the 106th Boston Marathon, winning both men’s and women’s titles and capturing the four top spots and six of t

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A White farmer, Davis Stevens, is shot dead in Zimbabwe by squatters occupying his land. He is the first White farmer to be kil

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Thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight school children, die in a bus accident near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.

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South Africa signs a multilateral procès-verbal extending the declaration on the provisional accession of the Swiss Confederat

Nationalist Party wins three by-elections with a larger majority than in the 1958 general election.

Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po

Henry Cornelius, SA born British movie director, dies.

Mau Mau activists in Kenya kill nineteen Kikuyu ‘home guards’.

WWII: US supply ships finally reach the British Middle East army at the Suez Canal.

Mussolini announces that 400,000 Italians will be going to Ethiopia as settlers.

The first memorial stamps with surtax are issued in SA. They are known as the Voortrekker Memorial Stamps.

The second census of the Union of South Africa takes place.

Turkey cedes the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.

Bambata Rebellion: The Dundee-based troops leave the town and proceed to Nkandla.

Anglo-Boer War 2: A battle takes place between the British forces under Lord Roberts and the Boers under Gen. De la Rey at Bran

Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,

Petrus Johannes Lemmer, composer of Afrikaans songs, is born in Hartbeesfontein, near Klerksdorp, Transvaal.

South Zambesia and North Zambesia (Zambia) are&amp;nbsp;united as Rhodesia Protectorate.

Prof. François Ernst Johannes Malherbe, lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and literary critic, is born in the distric

In reply to a letter by the Rev. John Ayliff, missionary amongst the Fingos (Mfengu), on behalf of this landless society, Sir B

The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the

Voortrekker leader Piet Retief is baptised in Drakenstein, Western Cape.

World Press Freedom Day.

Cricket coach Bob Woolmer is cremated in a private ceremony attended only by close relatives in Cape Town. It is believed that

An airliner carrying seventy-nine people crashes into residential blocks as it prepares to land at Nigeria’s Kano airport, kill

Bambata Rebellion: General mobilisation of Natal militia, with an appeal to the neighbouring states for assistance. To this, Tr

After the abolition of the triumvirate, Paul Kruger is elected president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek for the first time.

Gen. Johannes Jacobus Pienaar, administrator of Transvaal, is born in Ladybrand, OFS.

Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant and leader of the burghers who drove Landdros Maynier away in 1795, is born. Van

Hannah Botha (84), veteran actress and one of the main characters in Egoli, dies in Johannesburg.

Kenyans dominate the 106th Boston Marathon, winning both men’s and women’s titles and capturing the four top spots and six of t

A White farmer, Davis Stevens, is shot dead in Zimbabwe by squatters occupying his land. He is the first White farmer to be kil

Thirty-two passengers, including twenty-eight school children, die in a bus accident near Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.

South Zambesia and North Zambesia (Zambia) are united as Rhodesia Protectorate.