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Jacobus Hendrik Hatting, fighter at the battle of Blood River and author of an early history of the Voortrekkers, is born.

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The forty-five mercenaries alleged to have commandeered an Air India Boeing and forced it to fly to Durban, after attempting a

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Lord Salisbury negotiates an Anglo-French agreement on West Africa and ends the Niger crisis. It defines the border between Nig

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Three Whites, Damion de Lange, Ian Robertson and Susan Donelly, are convicted of terrorism for being in possession of an arms c

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A row over a fare between an Egyptian donkey boy and a Maltese man triggers a riot in the city in which several hundred people

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Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the

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SA signs an agreement with Southern Rhodesia for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with res

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Judge Goldstone makes an urgent plea to the SAG for wider powers, more resources and greater co-operation for his investigation

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Five Germans and two Egyptians are wounded when Islamic militants fire on them in an attempt to cripple Egypt’s tourist industr

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SA cricket players record their first ever innings win over England when they beat Nassar Hussain’s tourists by an innings and

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Fikile Magadledla, SA artist, co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, illustrator of several books and writer of poetry to ac

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The Mozambique Convention, an agreement between the ZAR and Portugal, paves the way for the construction of the Delagoa Bay rai

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Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the

This day in history

Pirates fire a rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns in an attack on the luxury cruise liner Seabourn Spirit off the coast

This day in history

South Africa signs an accord granting independence to South-West Africa. Angola, Cuba, and South Africa end eight months of ne

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Six South Africans and three Lesotho nationals are killed in an attack for which the renegade Lesotho Liberation Army claims re

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At least four policemen are apparently arrested and questioned about a burglary last week from the safes of the SAPS serious an

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Maropoli Mapalakanye, an organiser for MWASA, is reported missing. No reply is received from the minister of law and order to a

This day in history

In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con

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Four senior newspaper editors are found guilty on between one and three counts under the 1982 Protection of Information Act, an

This day in history

In the British House of Commons the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Select Committee on Expenditure proposes an inquiry

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An expedition of seventy-one under August F. Beutler leaves the Castle at the Cape with eleven wagons and thirty-seven soldiers

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Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo

This day in history

The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to

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The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote

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WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack

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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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The Minister of Water Affairs announces an ambitious scheme to harness the Orange River for power and irrigation at a cost of R

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N.C. (Klasie) Havenga, private secretary of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog and minister of finance in Dr. Malan’s cabinet, is born in Faur

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Special Offences Act No 6 commences, making it an offence to possess a tyre or similar object, or any inflammable liquid, in ci

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Jacobus Hendrik Hatting, fighter at the battle of Blood River and author of an early history of the Voortrekkers, is born.

The forty-five mercenaries alleged to have commandeered an Air India Boeing and forced it to fly to Durban, after attempting a

Lord Salisbury negotiates an Anglo-French agreement on West Africa and ends the Niger crisis. It defines the border between Nig

Three Whites, Damion de Lange, Ian Robertson and Susan Donelly, are convicted of terrorism for being in possession of an arms c

A row over a fare between an Egyptian donkey boy and a Maltese man triggers a riot in the city in which several hundred people

Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the

SA signs an agreement with Southern Rhodesia for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with res

Judge Goldstone makes an urgent plea to the SAG for wider powers, more resources and greater co-operation for his investigation

Five Germans and two Egyptians are wounded when Islamic militants fire on them in an attempt to cripple Egypt’s tourist industr

SA cricket players record their first ever innings win over England when they beat Nassar Hussain’s tourists by an innings and

Fikile Magadledla, SA artist, co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, illustrator of several books and writer of poetry to ac

The Mozambique Convention, an agreement between the ZAR and Portugal, paves the way for the construction of the Delagoa Bay rai

Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the

Pirates fire a rocket-propelled grenade and machine guns in an attack on the luxury cruise liner Seabourn Spirit off the coast

South Africa signs an accord granting independence to South-West Africa. Angola, Cuba, and South Africa end eight months of ne

Six South Africans and three Lesotho nationals are killed in an attack for which the renegade Lesotho Liberation Army claims re

At least four policemen are apparently arrested and questioned about a burglary last week from the safes of the SAPS serious an

Maropoli Mapalakanye, an organiser for MWASA, is reported missing. No reply is received from the minister of law and order to a

In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con

Four senior newspaper editors are found guilty on between one and three counts under the 1982 Protection of Information Act, an

In the British House of Commons the Trade and Industry Sub-Committee of the Select Committee on Expenditure proposes an inquiry

An expedition of seventy-one under August F. Beutler leaves the Castle at the Cape with eleven wagons and thirty-seven soldiers

Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo

The telephone company, Telkom, announces that it will buy and distribute five million condoms to its employees in an effort to

The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote

WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack

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

The Minister of Water Affairs announces an ambitious scheme to harness the Orange River for power and irrigation at a cost of R

N.C. (Klasie) Havenga, private secretary of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog and minister of finance in Dr. Malan’s cabinet, is born in Faur

Special Offences Act No 6 commences, making it an offence to possess a tyre or similar object, or any inflammable liquid, in ci