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Sir Henry Barkly (83), former Cape governor, dies in London.
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Building of the Delagoa Bay railway line is completed. It is to be opened for traffic on 2 November 1894.
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Jomo Kenyatta, freedom fighter, first prime minister and later president of Kenya, is born presumably on this date.
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Prof. Stephanus Petrus Engelbrecht, Pretoria professor of theology and cultural leader, is born in the district of Standerton,
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Sir Richard Francis Burton (69), ‘discoverer’ of Lake Tanganyika, dies of heart failure.
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Jonathan Ayliff (56), Cape attorney, politician and colonial secretary, dies in London.
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Frederich Martin Joseph Welwitsch (66), botanist and discoverer of the welwitschia plant in Namibia, dies in London.
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Andrew Geddes Bain, a pioneer SA geologist, road engineer, explorer and writer, dies in Cape Town. He constructed Bain’s Kloof
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The corner stone of the oldest church building in Transvaal, the Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk in Potchefstroom, is laid.
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The Cape of Good Hope Royal Observatory is founded.
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Martin Melck, donator of the stand and builder of the Lutheran church on it, now a national monument, is born in Eastern Prussi
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World Osteoporosis Day.
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News 24 reports that following the departure of Nobel laureate JM Coetzee to Australia, authors such as Andre P Brink, Rian Mal
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News 24 reports that following the departure of Nobel laureate JM Coetzee to Australia, authors such as Andre P Brink, Rian Mal
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The national prosecuting authority (NPA) rules that a fresh prosecution of Dr Wouter Basson, former chemical weapons expert, on
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The South African Competitions Commission finds two giant pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline Kline South Africa and Boch
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The South African Competitions Commission finds two giant pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline Kline South Africa and Boch
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The Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel, which conducted the bulk of its work in 2000, identifies a number of potential areas for
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Kenyan police attack pro-democracy demonstrators in Nairobi with whips, clubs and tear gas, sending thousands of panicked prote
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Kenyan police attack pro-democracy demonstrators in Nairobi with whips, clubs and tear gas, sending thousands of panicked prote
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Political assassination: Michion Mkhize, IFP student leader at the University of Zululand, is stabbed to death.
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African National Congress President Nelson Mandela acknowledges that prisoners in congress military camps had been tortured dur
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President de Klerk’s proposal to open the ranks of the National Party to all South Africans is accepted by the fourth and final
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Death Row prisoner Butana Almond Nofomela is granted a last minute stay of execution following his revelations that he and four
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The one-year-old parliamentary opposition People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former ANC member Rocky Ma
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Mohammed Valli Moosa, Murphy Morobe and Vusi Khanyile end their 37-day sit-in at the American Consulate-General in Johannesburg
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In 1987, world markets are enjoying a record-setting bull run, seemingly unbothered by occasional cocaine scandals or the arres
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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticises the ANC, calling it “a terrorist organisation”.
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President Samora Machel of Mozambique is killed in an air crash in eastern South Africa shortly after 21:00. Thirty-four people
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