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Sydney Sekwati Choma portrait

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Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad portrait

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Gladys Thomas portrait

Gladys Thomas

Ndebele architecture and settlement patterns

Ndebele architecture and settlement patterns

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Dinuzulu ka-Cetewayo, Zulu chief, released from prison by Gen. Louis Botha (who also saw to it that he received a farm to live

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The United Party leader, Sir de Villiers Graaff, tells its Free State Congress that the Party rejects the idea of one man, one

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Jan C. de Waal (92), farmer who endeavoured to increase sheep numbers in the Orange Free State after the Anglo-Boer War and who

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Cornelis de Houtman reaches the bay of São Bras (now Mossel Bay), the first contact of the Dutch with the South African coast.

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Penny Heyns beats the world record the sixth time in three weeks by winning the 200 m breaststroke in the Pan-Pacific Games in

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A bomb explodes in the elevator of the building in the centre of Cape Town, which houses the President’s Council. One man is ki

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The government of Ghana imposes a total ban on the export of all produce to South Africa and South West Africa, as a protest ag

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More than twenty-five people die in action by the SAP and SADF when residents of the Old Location, Windhoek, resist forced remo

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The four corner stones of the castle (Kasteel de Goede Hoop) at the Cape are laid by Zacharias Wagenaer, Johan van Arckel, Gabb

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For the first time in the history of the South African Police Force (SAP) policewomen are enlisted as full members of the force

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On his return from Paris, General Hendrik van den Bergh has his own passport impounded on orders from the minister of the inter

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The first hijacking of a South African Airways plane takes place when two men hijack a SAA Boeing 727 tri-jet the Letaba en rou

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The electoral college elects T.E. Donges as the next State President by 163 votes to fifty-two, cast for Major van der Byl.

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Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.

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According to Nongqawuse’s prophecy to the Xhosa people, on this day the sun will rise and set again in the east and a whirlwind

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Business Day reports that President Botha declared in the House of Representatives in May that the ban on the ANC could not be

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Zulu warriors ambush Petrus Lafras (Piet) Uys and his men at Italeni. Uys, his son Dirkie and seven of his followers are ki

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Zulu warriors ambush Petrus Lafras (Piet) Uys and his men at Italeni. Uys, his son Dirkie and seven of his followers are ki

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Libya hands over to two former UN government agents to stand trial for the bombing of a Pan Am aircraft over Lockerbie in 1988.

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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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George Rex (74), believed to be the son of George III and Hannah Lightfoot, who was banned to the Cape, dies in Knysna.

Sing Me a Song of History: South African Poets and Singers in Exile, 1900–1990 by Marian De Saxe, University of Sydney (2010)

Is there an Indian Question in Post-Apartheid South Africa? by Rehana Ebr.Vally

Danie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich

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Danie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich

Pieter Dirk Uys (Evita Bezuidenhout)

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Pieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town