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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5…
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ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… is then appropriated for themselves. On the other hand, San and Khoi-Khoi attack, raid and burn down farms. The trek … sentenced to death for planning to…
ArchiveExcerpts from an address of the central committee to the Communist League in Germany
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The Non-Bantu Languages of North-Eastern Africa by A.N. Tucker and M.A. Bryan
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Is there an Indian Question in Post-Apartheid South Africa? by Rehana Ebr.Vally
ArchiveDeclaration of the African National Congress (SA) Executive Committee, Morogoro, 17 - 20 March 1975
Declaration of the ANC National Executive Committee in Morogoro, 17-20 March 1975. Calls for the mobilisation of all forces in Africa and world-wide against…
ArchiveAn Address on the Occasion of the Awards Ceremony at the Federal Theological Seminary
ArchiveUnequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of· Peripheral Capitalism by Samir Amin
ArchiveAn interview between the Hon. the Minister of Works and the editor of Inhlabamkhosi
ArchiveThe 70th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917: an appreciation
Paper by Jack Simons on the Russian Revolution.
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