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Pieter Hackius (also Hakkius) succeeds Jacob Borghorst as commander at the Cape. This date appears to be the correct one, not 2

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Cape slavery may be dated from this date, (or 28 March, as given in two other sources) when the Amersfoort , with some 170 slav

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The Chamber of XVII in Amsterdam orders that the Drommedaris, the Goede Hoop and the Reijger be fitted out for the proposed jou

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The Dutch Indiaman, Nieuw-Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay.

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The Dutch East India Company orders Henry Hudson to try again to find a northwestern sea route to India.

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Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is sentenced to eight years in gaol on charges of fraud

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At least thirty-two people die and 100 are injured when a train between Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya derails.

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An Egyptian man identified as a key suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing is flown to the United States to face charge

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President FW de Klerk tells parliament that South Africa constructed six nuclear fission devices but these had been dismantled

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The Mali opposition says government troops killed nearly 150 people in three days of pro-democracy protests.

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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates it will cost $40m to repatriate South Africa’s 40 000 exiles.

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Dinzy Maphumulo, stepfather of Chief Maphumulo, is shot dead at his home in Table Mountain, Natal.

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Twelve people including a policeman and two children are killed and thirty-eight injured as violence breaks out between police,

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Scores of people are believed injured when police fire teargas into a crowd in Soweto during a march to the Soweto City Council

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Minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok states in parliament that eighty-one people were charged under the Internal Security Act

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The SA Defence Force announces that the body of an SAAF Mirage pilot and the remains of his aircraft have been found in the ope

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The United Nations Security Council Commission of Inquiry, investigating the abortive Seychelles coup, fails to reach a definit

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The government announces that it is terminating its preferential trade agreement concluded with Rhodesia in 1964.

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Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies

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Gabriel Stephanus (Gaffie) du Toit, SA rugby player, is born in Kuils River, CP.

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Terry van der Merwe receives Springbok colours for water skiing on her 14th birthday.

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Uganda crushes a coup attempt against President Idi Amin.

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An extradition agreement between SA and Malawi is published in Pretoria.

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Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo. He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 19

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Provincial Council elections show a sharp swing to the government side and shock the opposition UP. Although provincial, the ca

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The Ciskei territorial authority is instituted.

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The Government banns all public meetings of more than twelve persons until June 30 in an effort to disrupt the wave of protests

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A new constitution goes into effect in Tanganyika, East Africa.

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Two pilots of SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron, assisting the United Nations in the Korean War, blast a convoy of

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The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), at its meeting in Cape Town, decides to instruct the Natal and the T

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Pieter Hackius (also Hakkius) succeeds Jacob Borghorst as commander at the Cape. This date appears to be the correct one, not 2

Cape slavery may be dated from this date, (or 28 March, as given in two other sources) when the Amersfoort , with some 170 slav

The Chamber of XVII in Amsterdam orders that the Drommedaris, the Goede Hoop and the Reijger be fitted out for the proposed jou

The Dutch Indiaman, Nieuw-Haerlem, is wrecked in a storm in Table Bay.

The Dutch East India Company orders Henry Hudson to try again to find a northwestern sea route to India.

Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is sentenced to eight years in gaol on charges of fraud

At least thirty-two people die and 100 are injured when a train between Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya derails.

An Egyptian man identified as a key suspect in the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing is flown to the United States to face charge

President FW de Klerk tells parliament that South Africa constructed six nuclear fission devices but these had been dismantled

The Mali opposition says government troops killed nearly 150 people in three days of pro-democracy protests.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates it will cost $40m to repatriate South Africa’s 40 000 exiles.

Dinzy Maphumulo, stepfather of Chief Maphumulo, is shot dead at his home in Table Mountain, Natal.

Twelve people including a policeman and two children are killed and thirty-eight injured as violence breaks out between police,

Scores of people are believed injured when police fire teargas into a crowd in Soweto during a march to the Soweto City Council

Minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok states in parliament that eighty-one people were charged under the Internal Security Act

The SA Defence Force announces that the body of an SAAF Mirage pilot and the remains of his aircraft have been found in the ope

The United Nations Security Council Commission of Inquiry, investigating the abortive Seychelles coup, fails to reach a definit

The government announces that it is terminating its preferential trade agreement concluded with Rhodesia in 1964.

Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies

Gabriel Stephanus (Gaffie) du Toit, SA rugby player, is born in Kuils River, CP.

Terry van der Merwe receives Springbok colours for water skiing on her 14th birthday.

Uganda crushes a coup attempt against President Idi Amin.

An extradition agreement between SA and Malawi is published in Pretoria.

Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo. He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 19

Provincial Council elections show a sharp swing to the government side and shock the opposition UP. Although provincial, the ca

The Ciskei territorial authority is instituted.

The Government banns all public meetings of more than twelve persons until June 30 in an effort to disrupt the wave of protests

A new constitution goes into effect in Tanganyika, East Africa.

Two pilots of SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron, assisting the United Nations in the Korean War, blast a convoy of

The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), at its meeting in Cape Town, decides to instruct the Natal and the T