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The first work of Sita (Sara Susanna de Kock), winner of the Scheepers Prize, is published.

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Philip McLachlan, choirmaster of the choir of the University of Stellenbosch, is born.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Mr H.R. Fox, Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, after being made aware by Emily Hobhouse of the

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Newly appointed Combat General Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil leaves Kroonstad with a ‘flying column’ con

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Uitlanders (Foreigners) at the Rand petition Queen Victoria to redress their grievances.

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Britain and Italy reach agreement in Ethiopia, defining frontiers of their Red Sea colonies.

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Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, announces isolation of tuberculosis germs. This invention is of great significance to t

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A new constitution with extended governmental power comes into operation in the Natal Colony when John Scott opens the first se

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South African author Olive Schreiner is born at Wittebergen Mission Station near Herschel in the Eastern Cape. Her best-known w

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Henry Warden orders the British troops to be moved from Philippolis to Bloemfontein, the farm about which he has written the pr

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The Brazilia arrives from the Netherlands and hastens the annexation of Port Natal.

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Johannes Casparus Lotter (45), who made two silver communion chalices for the ‘Groote Kerk’ in Cape Town, dies.

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The Santo Alberto is wrecked on the coast of Pondoland. The survivors who reached Delagoa Bay established considerably greater

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World TB Day, instituted to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world.

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About 130 people are reported drowned or missing when a Nigerian boat capsizes along the coast of the Cameroons.

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Six girls and three teachers of a primary school in Vereeniging die when the minibus in which they are travelling overturns bet

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Egypt’s state security court finds Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, and sentences

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South Africa wins the first cricket test on Newlands against Sri Lanka with 70 runs.

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The first wave of a US military task force moves cautiously into central Africa, preparing for a possible evacuation of America

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At a rally in the Tugela Ferry district of Kwazulu-Natal some 6,000 lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters come armed with figh

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Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, Presi

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Ephraim Ndebele (44), Inkatha supporting councillor and member of the Umlazi Dispute Resolution Committee and Robert Sekobi, al

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The National Party (NP) government put its revised constitutional proposals on the table during the Convention for Democratic S

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Nine policemen are to be charged with murder after the findings of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Sebokeng shooti

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The Star reports the opinion of a prominent educationist, Dr Franz Auerbach, on the book Black Matriculation Results: A Mechani

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The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre

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Dorothy Nyembe is released and participates in activities of Natal Organisation of Women (NOW).

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South Africa is to expand its military call-up to include all White men aged between seventeen and sixty-five, almost doubling

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The HNP’s policies are defined by its leader, Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the

This day in history

Nominations for the elections close with candidates for the 165 seats in the House of Assembly being nominated as follows: Nati

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The first work of Sita (Sara Susanna de Kock), winner of the Scheepers Prize, is published.

Philip McLachlan, choirmaster of the choir of the University of Stellenbosch, is born.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Mr H.R. Fox, Secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society, after being made aware by Emily Hobhouse of the

Anglo-Boer War 2: Newly appointed Combat General Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil leaves Kroonstad with a ‘flying column’ con

Uitlanders (Foreigners) at the Rand petition Queen Victoria to redress their grievances.

Britain and Italy reach agreement in Ethiopia, defining frontiers of their Red Sea colonies.

Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, announces isolation of tuberculosis germs. This invention is of great significance to t

A new constitution with extended governmental power comes into operation in the Natal Colony when John Scott opens the first se

South African author Olive Schreiner is born at Wittebergen Mission Station near Herschel in the Eastern Cape. Her best-known w

Henry Warden orders the British troops to be moved from Philippolis to Bloemfontein, the farm about which he has written the pr

The Brazilia arrives from the Netherlands and hastens the annexation of Port Natal.

Johannes Casparus Lotter (45), who made two silver communion chalices for the ‘Groote Kerk’ in Cape Town, dies.

The Santo Alberto is wrecked on the coast of Pondoland. The survivors who reached Delagoa Bay established considerably greater

World TB Day, instituted to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world.

About 130 people are reported drowned or missing when a Nigerian boat capsizes along the coast of the Cameroons.

Six girls and three teachers of a primary school in Vereeniging die when the minibus in which they are travelling overturns bet

Egypt’s state security court finds Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, and sentences

South Africa wins the first cricket test on Newlands against Sri Lanka with 70 runs.

The first wave of a US military task force moves cautiously into central Africa, preparing for a possible evacuation of America

At a rally in the Tugela Ferry district of Kwazulu-Natal some 6,000 lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters come armed with figh

Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, Presi

Ephraim Ndebele (44), Inkatha supporting councillor and member of the Umlazi Dispute Resolution Committee and Robert Sekobi, al

The National Party (NP) government put its revised constitutional proposals on the table during the Convention for Democratic S

Nine policemen are to be charged with murder after the findings of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Sebokeng shooti

The Star reports the opinion of a prominent educationist, Dr Franz Auerbach, on the book Black Matriculation Results: A Mechani

The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre

Dorothy Nyembe is released and participates in activities of Natal Organisation of Women (NOW).

South Africa is to expand its military call-up to include all White men aged between seventeen and sixty-five, almost doubling

The HNP’s policies are defined by its leader, Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the

Nominations for the elections close with candidates for the 165 seats in the House of Assembly being nominated as follows: Nati