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Alwyn Petrus Burger, founder of the charity service of the Dutch Reformed Church in Transvaal, is born in Montagu, Cape Provinc

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Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban issues a proclamation extending the boundary of the Cape Colony eastwards from the Keiskamma to t

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William Henry Addison, physician and researcher in Natal, is born in Kent, England.

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Zacharias Wagenaer, commander of the Cape who succeeded Jan van Riebeeck, is born in Dresden, Germany.

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Lindiwe Chibi (31), dies from pneumonia at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. The actress, who played the character of Doob

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An elderly resident of Pretoria, Hester Scheepers, of the Moot, dies five days before her 105th birthday.

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Brenda Fassi, SA diva, dies in her sleep. She was admitted to the Sunninghill Hospital after an asthma attack two weeks previou

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Prof. Elize Botha is appointed as new chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch.

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Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o

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Eleven people die in Sundumbili, Natal Midlands, in an alleged attack by IFP members, in collusion with Kwa-Zulu police and for

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Nelson Mandela is elected unopposed as first Black President of South Africa in the first session of the National Assembly.

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A broad consensus is reached between the government and the ANC to end Black violence in townships, a day before the ANC’s 9th

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Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas

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Stampede mars democracy party. At least fifteen people are treated in Pretoria Academic Hospital after they were injured in a s

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Pandemonium breaks loose when Sepp Blatter, the chairperson of Fifa, the soccer world governing body, and his entourage enters

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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s arrival at the inauguration of Pres. Thabo Mbeki was greeted with mixed emotions. Most of

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Former president Nelson Mandela receives thunderous applause when he arrives for President Thabo Mbeki’s inauguration.

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Freedom Day. Pres. Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated for his second term as president on the same day the RSA celebrates its 10th anni

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The ‘golden’ cow of Stellenbosch, 9045 Superstar, dies on the farm of Ludwig van Deventer.

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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, marries Ina Joubert, ex-journalist of the SABC, on his birthday in Pretoria.

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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, with Lucas Radebe replacing Neil Tovey as captain, wins 2-1 against the former Zaire in a Wo

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The Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) boycotts the first democratic general election in South Africa.

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United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali congratulates South Africa on the occasion of the country’s first democr

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South Africa’s interim constitution enters into force. The new flag is raised.

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Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia after thirty years of civil war following a United Nations (UN)-monitored referendum.

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A Zambian air force plane carrying Zambia’s national soccer team crashes into the Atlantic off Gabon, killing all thirty aboard

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The Conservative Party (CP) caucus agrees to hold talks with the National Party on setting up a White state (volkstaat), but ex

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela fails to win the presidency of the ANC’s Women’s League.

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Senior ANC leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ]

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Eleven days after the killing of London policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, the siege of the Libyan embassy ends and thirty Libyans (d

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Alwyn Petrus Burger, founder of the charity service of the Dutch Reformed Church in Transvaal, is born in Montagu, Cape Provinc

Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban issues a proclamation extending the boundary of the Cape Colony eastwards from the Keiskamma to t

William Henry Addison, physician and researcher in Natal, is born in Kent, England.

Zacharias Wagenaer, commander of the Cape who succeeded Jan van Riebeeck, is born in Dresden, Germany.

Lindiwe Chibi (31), dies from pneumonia at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital. The actress, who played the character of Doob

An elderly resident of Pretoria, Hester Scheepers, of the Moot, dies five days before her 105th birthday.

Brenda Fassi, SA diva, dies in her sleep. She was admitted to the Sunninghill Hospital after an asthma attack two weeks previou

Prof. Elize Botha is appointed as new chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch.

Second Executive President F.W. de Klerk announces that the NP will withdraw from the Government of National Unity at the end o

Eleven people die in Sundumbili, Natal Midlands, in an alleged attack by IFP members, in collusion with Kwa-Zulu police and for

Nelson Mandela is elected unopposed as first Black President of South Africa in the first session of the National Assembly.

A broad consensus is reached between the government and the ANC to end Black violence in townships, a day before the ANC’s 9th

Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas

Stampede mars democracy party. At least fifteen people are treated in Pretoria Academic Hospital after they were injured in a s

Pandemonium breaks loose when Sepp Blatter, the chairperson of Fifa, the soccer world governing body, and his entourage enters

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s arrival at the inauguration of Pres. Thabo Mbeki was greeted with mixed emotions. Most of

Former president Nelson Mandela receives thunderous applause when he arrives for President Thabo Mbeki’s inauguration.

Freedom Day. Pres. Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated for his second term as president on the same day the RSA celebrates its 10th anni

The ‘golden’ cow of Stellenbosch, 9045 Superstar, dies on the farm of Ludwig van Deventer.

Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, marries Ina Joubert, ex-journalist of the SABC, on his birthday in Pretoria.

Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, with Lucas Radebe replacing Neil Tovey as captain, wins 2-1 against the former Zaire in a Wo

The Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) boycotts the first democratic general election in South Africa.

United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali congratulates South Africa on the occasion of the country’s first democr

South Africa’s interim constitution enters into force. The new flag is raised.

Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia after thirty years of civil war following a United Nations (UN)-monitored referendum.

A Zambian air force plane carrying Zambia’s national soccer team crashes into the Atlantic off Gabon, killing all thirty aboard

The Conservative Party (CP) caucus agrees to hold talks with the National Party on setting up a White state (volkstaat), but ex

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela fails to win the presidency of the ANC’s Women’s League.

Senior ANC leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ]

Eleven days after the killing of London policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, the siege of the Libyan embassy ends and thirty Libyans (d