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Delegates of forty-five nations meet in San Francisco, California, to organise the United Nations.

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General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the

This day in history

A new constitution is given to the former Boer republic of Transvaal.

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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: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D

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Cornelis Moll (65), publisher of the first newspaper in Natal, dies in Nylstroom.

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Building starts on the Suez Canal under the engineer and designer Ferdinand de Lisseps (or Lesseps).

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The district of Uitenhage is formed in the eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist.

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Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.

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Olof Martin(i) Bergh, secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, is born in Cape Town.

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Africa Malaria Day is celebrated yearly.

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Testifying before the Harms Commission, which was taking testimony at the South African Embassy in London, former police captai

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South Africa says it has accepted a Western plan aimed at preparing Southwest Africa, now Namibia, for independence under Black

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Two hundred Libyan students are deported from Britain.

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Rioting breaks out across Soweto, South Africa’s largest Black township, following police blockade of youths protesting arrest

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Mswati III becomes King of Swaziland.

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Israel turns over the final third of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt under the Camp David peace agreement.

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John Stephen Gomas, trade unionist and political activist, dies in Cape Town.

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The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o

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The Chief of Staff (Operations) says that the development of South Africa’s defence has made the country completely self-suffic

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Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland.

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Hendrik Susan, violist and leader of a ‘Boeremusiek-orkes’ dies.

This day in history

Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka (born c. 1911), politician and founder of the African Democratic Party (ADP) and also an influential and

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Fourth nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara.

This day in history

Delegates of forty-five nations meet in San Francisco, California, to organise the United Nations.

This day in history

General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the

This day in history

A new constitution is given to the former Boer republic of Transvaal.

This day in history

Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act

This day in history

Anglo-Boer War 2: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D

This day in history

Cornelis Moll (65), publisher of the first newspaper in Natal, dies in Nylstroom.

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Delegates of forty-five nations meet in San Francisco, California, to organise the United Nations.

General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the

A new constitution is given to the former Boer republic of Transvaal.

Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act

Anglo-Boer War 2: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D

Cornelis Moll (65), publisher of the first newspaper in Natal, dies in Nylstroom.

Building starts on the Suez Canal under the engineer and designer Ferdinand de Lisseps (or Lesseps).

The district of Uitenhage is formed in the eastern Cape and named after Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist.

Frederick Logier, German music teacher at the Cape and composer of the first published music in Cape Town, is born in Ireland.

Olof Martin(i) Bergh, secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, is born in Cape Town.

Africa Malaria Day is celebrated yearly.

Testifying before the Harms Commission, which was taking testimony at the South African Embassy in London, former police captai

South Africa says it has accepted a Western plan aimed at preparing Southwest Africa, now Namibia, for independence under Black

Two hundred Libyan students are deported from Britain.

Rioting breaks out across Soweto, South Africa’s largest Black township, following police blockade of youths protesting arrest

Mswati III becomes King of Swaziland.

Israel turns over the final third of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt under the Camp David peace agreement.

John Stephen Gomas, trade unionist and political activist, dies in Cape Town.

The government for the first time allows twenty local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two o

The Chief of Staff (Operations) says that the development of South Africa’s defence has made the country completely self-suffic

Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland.

Hendrik Susan, violist and leader of a ‘Boeremusiek-orkes’ dies.

Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka (born c. 1911), politician and founder of the African Democratic Party (ADP) and also an influential and

Fourth nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara.

Delegates of forty-five nations meet in San Francisco, California, to organise the United Nations.

General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the

A new constitution is given to the former Boer republic of Transvaal.

Anglo-Boer War 2: General Jan Christiaan Smuts surrenders to the British under a flag of truce. Deneys Reitz who agrees to act

Anglo-Boer War 2: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D

Cornelis Moll (65), publisher of the first newspaper in Natal, dies in Nylstroom.