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International Weed Busting Day. The start of National Weed Busting Week.
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An emergency session was convened by parliament on October 12, 1995, to approve legislation to permit local elections to be hel
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Exchange of notes establishing diplomatic relations with Guinea-Bissau.
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The Special Committee against Apartheid holds a solemn meeting in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with South
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African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela states that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held pol
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Political assassination: Jeff Wabena, ANC, unionist, is shot dead at the ANC branch meeting in Mdantsane, Ciskei.
EventZimbabwean intelligence officers on trial for attempting to bomb ANC refugees
Three Zimbabwean intelligence officers were on trial in Harare, Zimbabwe for attempting to car bomb a house in Bulawayo, occupied by African National Congress …
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Khanya House, the headquarters of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, is set alight.
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Wynand Malan a former National Party M.P. leads the newly formed Afrikaans dominated political party, the National Democratic M
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Angola, Zaire and Zambia sign a non-aggression pact.
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Johan Fourie, SA actor and leader of a theatrical company, dies.
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SA signs multilateral agreement on the additional act of 1972, amending the International Convention for the Protection of New
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Fourteen people, including leading members of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People’s Convention
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The Minister of Labour says that the government will neither abolish job reservation nor recognise Black trade unions.
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SA signs amendments to the multilateral treaty on the safety of life at sea.
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The Security Council unanimously adopts an amended resolution, sponsored by four African states, which declares that army viola
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The Secretary-General of the Supreme African Sports Council, J.-G. Ganga, says he will admit White South Africans to the Africa
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Thabang Charlotte Mampane, chief executive officer of SABC Radio, is born in Kimberley.
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Sally Knight Little, SA golf player who won the individual title in the world golf championship in Spain in 1970, is born in Ca
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Asiatic Laws Amendment Act No 47 commences.
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Zoli Nhlanhla Rigney Kunene, commercial director of Kunene Bros Holdings and chair of other Kunene companies, is born in Boksbu
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Jaroslav Drobny, Czech tennis star who coached SA tennis players, is born.
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The SA government proclaims Martial Law as result of the rebellion on the German South-West border.
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The National Convention, chaired by Lord Henry de Villiers, Justice in Chief of the Cape, meets for the first time in Durban to
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Prof. D.F. Malherbe delivers a historical lecture in Wellington, dealing with the question whether Afrikaans is a dialect or a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The first shots of the war are fired at Kraaipan, about 50 kilometres south of Mafeking, where Gen. De la Rey
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German South West Africa’s first newspaper, the Windhuker Anzeiger, appears.
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The Bloemfontein Teachers’ Training College is established as the Normaalskool, with P.J. du Pré le Roux as first princi
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The newspaper, Bulawayo Chronicle, is published for the first time in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
Sir Harry Smith was the Governor and High Commissioner of the Cape Colony from 1847-1852. He ruled during the time of the Frontier Wars and was remowned for…