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Mercia Marie Isaacs, businesswoman, winner in category Medium Corporate/Medium Business Owner/NGO Lebone Woman’s Award in 1998

This day in history

De Gaulle takes complete control of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algeria and, in a promise of a power-share a

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Hugh Masekela is born near Johannesburg.

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The Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie, counterpart of the South African Teachers’ Association, is founded in Cape Town.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep in Namaqualand starts as Gen. Smuts demands the surrender of the town but is curtly reject

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Cecil John Rhodes’ will bequests £6 million to fund scholarships to Oxford University for citizens of the British Empire, Unit

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Bottomley writes a letter to King Dinizulu, ordering him to arm all his followers and to protect the Zul

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Dawid Johannes Rhoode, first professor of music at the University of the Orange Free State and director of music examinations a

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The battles of Reddersburg, where the Boers under Gen. De Wet defeat the Royal Irish Rifles, and Mostertshoek, take place. Brit

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William Henry Brann, SA cricket player (1922-1923), is born in Port Elizabeth.

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Gen. Nicolaas Smit (59), vice-president of the Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, dies in Pretoria.

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Henry Allen Fagan, chief justice of the Union of SA, cabinet minister and playwright, is born in Tulbach, CC.

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Karl Gottlieb Mauch (37), first person to discover gold in SA, dies in poverty in Stuttgart, Germany. His discoveries included

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The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.

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The free burgher exiles, Henning Huijzing, Jacobus van der Heijde, Ferdinandus Appel, Pieter van der Bijl and Jan van Meerlant,

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Pieter Gijsbert van Noodt, governor at the Cape who allegedly died while four people were being hung on his order, is born in N

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The National Party’s Roelf Meyer meets with Bantu Holomisa to discuss the formation of a new political movement.

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Five members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) are sentenced to twenty-six years imprisonment each for their part in a

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African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela calls for an &quot;independent international monitoring force&quot; to

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Twenty-three IFP residents are killed during a night attack on Crossroads squatter camp, PWV.

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One week after the death of Ahmed Sékou Touré in Guinea, Colonel Lansana Konte is declared president. Tour&eacute

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The SA rugby team loses surprisingly against South America with 12-21.

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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has a first meeting with President Jimmy Carter of the US.

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The first portable cellular phone call is made in New York City, United States of America (USA). Cellular phones became commerc

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Rule of Equatorial Africa and the Cameroon by ‘Free France’ is recognised by the US.

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World War 2: The British forces evacuate Benghazi, major seaport of north-eastern Libya, in the face of the German advance. Dat

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Ras Tafari is proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, formerly Abyssinia.

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Dr Emil Cohen (62), discoverer of gold at Lydenburg, dies.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Natal prime minister A.H. Hime complains to Gen. Hilyard that Col. Bottomley is exceeding his instruction

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f

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Mercia Marie Isaacs, businesswoman, winner in category Medium Corporate/Medium Business Owner/NGO Lebone Woman’s Award in 1998

De Gaulle takes complete control of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algeria and, in a promise of a power-share a

Hugh Masekela is born near Johannesburg.

The Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie, counterpart of the South African Teachers’ Association, is founded in Cape Town.

Anglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep in Namaqualand starts as Gen. Smuts demands the surrender of the town but is curtly reject

Cecil John Rhodes’ will bequests £6 million to fund scholarships to Oxford University for citizens of the British Empire, Unit

Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Bottomley writes a letter to King Dinizulu, ordering him to arm all his followers and to protect the Zul

Dawid Johannes Rhoode, first professor of music at the University of the Orange Free State and director of music examinations a

The battles of Reddersburg, where the Boers under Gen. De Wet defeat the Royal Irish Rifles, and Mostertshoek, take place. Brit

William Henry Brann, SA cricket player (1922-1923), is born in Port Elizabeth.

Gen. Nicolaas Smit (59), vice-president of the Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, dies in Pretoria.

Henry Allen Fagan, chief justice of the Union of SA, cabinet minister and playwright, is born in Tulbach, CC.

Karl Gottlieb Mauch (37), first person to discover gold in SA, dies in poverty in Stuttgart, Germany. His discoveries included

The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.

The free burgher exiles, Henning Huijzing, Jacobus van der Heijde, Ferdinandus Appel, Pieter van der Bijl and Jan van Meerlant,

Pieter Gijsbert van Noodt, governor at the Cape who allegedly died while four people were being hung on his order, is born in N

The National Party’s Roelf Meyer meets with Bantu Holomisa to discuss the formation of a new political movement.

Five members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) are sentenced to twenty-six years imprisonment each for their part in a

African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela calls for an &amp;quot;independent international monitoring force&amp;quot; to

Twenty-three IFP residents are killed during a night attack on Crossroads squatter camp, PWV.

One week after the death of Ahmed Sékou Touré in Guinea, Colonel Lansana Konte is declared president. Tour&amp;eacute

The SA rugby team loses surprisingly against South America with 12-21.

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has a first meeting with President Jimmy Carter of the US.

The first portable cellular phone call is made in New York City, United States of America (USA). Cellular phones became commerc

Rule of Equatorial Africa and the Cameroon by ‘Free France’ is recognised by the US.

World War 2: The British forces evacuate Benghazi, major seaport of north-eastern Libya, in the face of the German advance. Dat

Ras Tafari is proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, formerly Abyssinia.

Dr Emil Cohen (62), discoverer of gold at Lydenburg, dies.

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Natal prime minister A.H. Hime complains to Gen. Hilyard that Col. Bottomley is exceeding his instruction

Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f

African National Congress (ANC) President Nelson Mandela calls for an "independent international monitoring force" to

One week after the death of Ahmed Sékou Touré in Guinea, Colonel Lansana Konte is declared president. Tour&eacute