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Dr D.F. Malan, retired prime minister of SA, announces his decision to withdraw from politics.
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Dr D.F. Malan unveils the statue of Paul Kruger on Church Square, Pretoria.
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League of Nations places arms embargo on Italy and lifts ban on Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
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Sir Ebenezer John Buchanan (86), journalist, politician and judge, dies in Cape Town.
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Zacharias Johannes (Zac) de Beer, former leader of the Democratic Party, is born in Cape Town.
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Dr Daniël Hartman (Danie) Craven, SA rugby boss for many years, is born in Lindley, OFS.
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G. H. (Harry) Atkins, SA sculptor, is born Wallasey, England. He died in 1983 in Port Elizabeth.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British execute J.W.G. Jansen and one Rautenbach in Vryburg by hanging, for horse theft.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British Agent in Johannesburg, Sir William Conyngham Greene, leaves Pretoria.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The war between the British Empire and the two Boer republics, the Transvaal and Orange Free State, breaks ou
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Standard Bank starts business in a tent in Ferreirasdorp, Witwatersrand.
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Dr Louis Herman, SA educationist and writer, is born in Southampton, England.
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Frederick Logier (66), organist and music teacher who established the Logier music academy in Cape Town, dies. A composition by
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Sir Harry Smith (73), former Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, dies in England.
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Commandant A.T. Spies, founder of the Klip River and Utrecht Republics, is born in Swellendam, CC.
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Kaizer Chiefs are handed a R250 000 fine suspended for a year and a one match lock out for their next home PSL match at a disci
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A year-old baby girl, Khensani Mitilene, is shot dead on her mother’s back when "a war" breaks out in the Johannesbur
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Milton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator who was first toppled by Idi Amin and overthrown again after a second stint in powe
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A large crowd spends the night outside the Durban magistrate’s court in an all-night vigil for former deputy president Jacob Zu
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Chad’s first oil pipeline opens.
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SA President Thabo Mbeki is publicly opposed to the provision of AIDS drugs in South Africa, arguing that they are dangerously
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Explosives detonate in a house in 27th Avenue, Villieria, Pretoria.
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Rebels use a missile to shoot down a jetliner carrying forty civilians in eastern Congo, claiming it was ferrying government tr
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Haitian leader Lt Gen. Raoul Cedras resigns, paving the way for the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (now resi
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SA signs cooperation agreement with the European Union.
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 0-4 against Nigeria in an away game.
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Ten occupants are shot, stabbed and firebombed in an attack on a bus in Katlehong, East Rand.
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F.W. de Klerk announces the unconditional release of eight security prisoners. The eight are former ANC secretary-general Walte
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Ludwig (58) and Angelique (43) Adelberg of Muldersdrift die when their rented Cessna plane crashes in a mountain side near Geor
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