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Belgian authority in the Congo has almost completely disintegrated. Patrice Lumumba is now in control of much of the country.

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Egypt bars Israeli ships from the Suez Canal.

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Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J

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Nationalist China breaks off relations with Egypt after President Gamal Abdel Nasser grants diplomatic recognition to Communist

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Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West

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WWII: North Africa. Rommel is instructed by Berlin to leave Tobruk to the Italians and concentrate his Deutsches Afrika Korps o

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Nairobi is selected to be the capital of British East Africa.

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Lord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Hunter occupies Christiana, the first ZAR town to be captured.

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Betsie Verwoerd (Elizabeth Schoombie), wife of Dr Verwoerd, is born in Middelburg, Cape Colony.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: A ‘flying’ column that has sped its way straight from Kimberley (reinforced further by Canadian troops) comes

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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri

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The Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR/Transvaal Republic) resolves to declare war on Chief Sekhukhune. Presiden

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Anglo-Boer War 2: After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town.

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Melt Jacobus Brink, expert in Afrikaans literature and playwright, is born in Cape Town.

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Frederik Christiaan Ludolph Bosman, founder member of several Afrikaans cultural organisations, is born in Kuils River.

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The ZAR and Portugal signs a legal agreement on the construction of the Delagoa Bay railway line.

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Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg, president of the ZAR for seven months, is born in the Uitenhage district, Eastern Cape.

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Fifty-seven (or seventy according to another source) lives are lost when a gale in Table Bay wrecks eleven (News 24 states eigh

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Sir John Cradock, Cape governor, acting in accordance with an instruction issued by the British Colonial Secretary, issues a pr

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Sir James Hulett, SA sugar magnate, is born in England.

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Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant who resisted several Graaff-Reinet magistrates over frontier policy and was elected

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Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, is born in Rotterd

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The Free Burghers sign a petition asking Jan van Riebeeck to act against the ‘Kaapmans’ (Khoi-Khoi).

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World Telecommunication Day.

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Athletics South Africa (ASA) confirms that Hezekiel Sepeng has been reinstated for all athletics competitions with immediate ef

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’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).

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Joseph &quot;Sepp&quot; Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, announces in Zürich, Switzerland, that Sout

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Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.

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Belgian authority in the Congo has almost completely disintegrated. Patrice Lumumba is now in control of much of the country.

Egypt bars Israeli ships from the Suez Canal.

Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J

Nationalist China breaks off relations with Egypt after President Gamal Abdel Nasser grants diplomatic recognition to Communist

Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West

WWII: North Africa. Rommel is instructed by Berlin to leave Tobruk to the Italians and concentrate his Deutsches Afrika Korps o

Nairobi is selected to be the capital of British East Africa.

Lord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor

Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Hunter occupies Christiana, the first ZAR town to be captured.

Betsie Verwoerd (Elizabeth Schoombie), wife of Dr Verwoerd, is born in Middelburg, Cape Colony.

Anglo-Boer War 2: A ‘flying’ column that has sped its way straight from Kimberley (reinforced further by Canadian troops) comes

Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi

Anglo-Boer War 2: The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri

The Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR/Transvaal Republic) resolves to declare war on Chief Sekhukhune. Presiden

Anglo-Boer War 2: After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town.

Melt Jacobus Brink, expert in Afrikaans literature and playwright, is born in Cape Town.

Frederik Christiaan Ludolph Bosman, founder member of several Afrikaans cultural organisations, is born in Kuils River.

The ZAR and Portugal signs a legal agreement on the construction of the Delagoa Bay railway line.

Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg, president of the ZAR for seven months, is born in the Uitenhage district, Eastern Cape.

Fifty-seven (or seventy according to another source) lives are lost when a gale in Table Bay wrecks eleven (News 24 states eigh

Sir John Cradock, Cape governor, acting in accordance with an instruction issued by the British Colonial Secretary, issues a pr

Sir James Hulett, SA sugar magnate, is born in England.

Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant who resisted several Graaff-Reinet magistrates over frontier policy and was elected

Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, is born in Rotterd

The Free Burghers sign a petition asking Jan van Riebeeck to act against the ‘Kaapmans’ (Khoi-Khoi).

World Telecommunication Day.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) confirms that Hezekiel Sepeng has been reinstated for all athletics competitions with immediate ef

’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).

Joseph &amp;quot;Sepp&amp;quot; Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, announces in Zürich, Switzerland, that Sout

Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.

Joseph "Sepp" Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, announces in Zürich, Switzerland, that Sout