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Thomas Francois Burgers, state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), is born on the farm Langfontein, Graaff-Rein

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Merchant Jan van Riebeeck is appointed commander at the Cape at a salary of 90 Dutch guilder per year and not 150, as was his r

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Two Libyan suspects are charged officially in Kamp Zest, the Netherlands, of causing the bomb explosion on board a Boeing 747 t

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Dissident soldiers shoot dead Lesotho’s deputy prime minister and seize four cabinet ministers in a mutiny over a planned gover

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Violence rages throughout South Africa as hundreds of thousands of Blacks protest the slaying of popular Communist Party chief

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Eleven people are killed in Nancefield, PWV, in a clash between Nancefield hostel and Power Park squatter camp.

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Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in Alexandra, PWV, in an alleged political murder.

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Nelson Mandela admits that members of the ANC had tortured dissident guerrillas, but said the officials involved had been punis

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Chris Ntuli, former detainee, is stabbed after returning from reporting to Inanda police station in compliance with his restric

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William Oliphant, unionist, is found dead on a farm near Koster, Western Transvaal, after being abducted two weeks earlier in w

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Desmond Tutu is selected as the archbishop of Cape Town, head of the Anglican Church of South Africa.

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Siphiwe Mthimkulu and Topsie Madaka disappear in Port Elizabeth during the institution of lawsuit proceedings against the Minis

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Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.

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Yusufu Lule, driven into exile by former Uganda dictator Idi Amin, is sworn in as the country’s new president.

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Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers, trade union leader active in the Garment Workers’ Union (GWU), dies in Johannesburg.

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The Bophuthatswana government rejects the South African government’s consolidation proposals.

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The appeal by the Anglican Dean, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, against his conviction and sentence under the Te

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Riots break out in the Liberian capital Monrovia over the price of rice.

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A second earthquake hits Tulbach, six months after the first one in which nine people were killed.

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Bonita Kim (Bonny) Alice, SA sculptor, is born in Johannesburg.

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Seven hundred political prisoners are released in Algeria on the orders of the French president, General Charles de Gaulle.

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In the new Republic of Cameroon hundreds of people are reported killed in rebel attacks.

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The German Fifth Panzer Army under General Gustav von Vaerst begins to evacuate from Tunis. Rommel departed on 9 March.

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Dr Zola Sidney Skweyiya, Minister of Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, is born.

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Colin Wells Eglin, leader of the Progressive Federal Party, 1971-78, is born in Sea Point, Cape Town.

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Bambata Rebellion: The Natal government offers a reward of £500 for the capture of Bambata, dead or alive.

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S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), is born in Hebron, Pretoria. The

This day in history

The official opening of the Central Electric Station in Dock Road, Cape Town.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Comdt Jan H. Theron, Danie Theron’s successor as commander of Theron’s Scouts, dies of gastric fever in the C

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The first Boer prisoners of war arrive at St Helena, on board of the Milwaukee.

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Thomas Francois Burgers, state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR), is born on the farm Langfontein, Graaff-Rein

Merchant Jan van Riebeeck is appointed commander at the Cape at a salary of 90 Dutch guilder per year and not 150, as was his r

Two Libyan suspects are charged officially in Kamp Zest, the Netherlands, of causing the bomb explosion on board a Boeing 747 t

Dissident soldiers shoot dead Lesotho’s deputy prime minister and seize four cabinet ministers in a mutiny over a planned gover

Violence rages throughout South Africa as hundreds of thousands of Blacks protest the slaying of popular Communist Party chief

Eleven people are killed in Nancefield, PWV, in a clash between Nancefield hostel and Power Park squatter camp.

Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in Alexandra, PWV, in an alleged political murder.

Nelson Mandela admits that members of the ANC had tortured dissident guerrillas, but said the officials involved had been punis

Chris Ntuli, former detainee, is stabbed after returning from reporting to Inanda police station in compliance with his restric

William Oliphant, unionist, is found dead on a farm near Koster, Western Transvaal, after being abducted two weeks earlier in w

Desmond Tutu is selected as the archbishop of Cape Town, head of the Anglican Church of South Africa.

Siphiwe Mthimkulu and Topsie Madaka disappear in Port Elizabeth during the institution of lawsuit proceedings against the Minis

Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.

Yusufu Lule, driven into exile by former Uganda dictator Idi Amin, is sworn in as the country’s new president.

Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers, trade union leader active in the Garment Workers’ Union (GWU), dies in Johannesburg.

The Bophuthatswana government rejects the South African government’s consolidation proposals.

The appeal by the Anglican Dean, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, against his conviction and sentence under the Te

Riots break out in the Liberian capital Monrovia over the price of rice.

A second earthquake hits Tulbach, six months after the first one in which nine people were killed.

Bonita Kim (Bonny) Alice, SA sculptor, is born in Johannesburg.

Seven hundred political prisoners are released in Algeria on the orders of the French president, General Charles de Gaulle.

In the new Republic of Cameroon hundreds of people are reported killed in rebel attacks.

The German Fifth Panzer Army under General Gustav von Vaerst begins to evacuate from Tunis. Rommel departed on 9 March.

Dr Zola Sidney Skweyiya, Minister of Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, is born.

Colin Wells Eglin, leader of the Progressive Federal Party, 1971-78, is born in Sea Point, Cape Town.

Bambata Rebellion: The Natal government offers a reward of £500 for the capture of Bambata, dead or alive.

S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), is born in Hebron, Pretoria. The

The official opening of the Central Electric Station in Dock Road, Cape Town.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Comdt Jan H. Theron, Danie Theron’s successor as commander of Theron’s Scouts, dies of gastric fever in the C

Anglo-Boer War 2: The first Boer prisoners of war arrive at St Helena, on board of the Milwaukee.