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Passive Resister reports that Moulvi Saloojee, one of the most respected Muslim priests and an active member of the Working Com

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SA tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men’s double title by beating twins Bob and Mike B

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The Citizen reports on details of Mr Justice Tom van Reenen’s report on alleged irregularities in the awarding of housing contr

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Eleven people die and seventy-six are injured in a bomb explosion in a store in Salisbury (now Harare) the capital of Rhodesia

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Joseph Michael Solomon, architect partner of Herbert Baker, commits suicide in Cape Town. He was never to see the final com

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An ANC car bomb attack directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, takes place in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. One pers

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CNN announces that Haroon Rashid Aswat, the suspected mastermind of the bomb attacks in London on July 7, hid in South Africa f

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Jan Hendrik Boom, gardener at the Cape, and his wife Annetjie (Annetjie de Boerin), receive permission to farm and keep dairy c

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William Ledwaba (16) is killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. 18 September, given as the date of

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A senior ANC member, P. Nyaose and his wife, are killed by a car bomb in Swaziland. Alfred Nzo, the ANC Secretary-General, blam

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The entire family of Morgan Montoedi, five members, are killed in a petrol bomb attack on their home in Kagiso, West Rand.

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Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d

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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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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Bishop Desmond Tutu in Oslo. The ceremony is delayed for twenty minutes because of a bomb threat.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: A squadron of Col. E.C. Bethune, under Capt. Geoff, runs into a well-placed ambush under Com. Blignaut at Sch

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A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in

This day in history

Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.

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Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in

This day in history

Daniel Johannes Smal, reciter, producer of oneman shows and champion for the founding of a school for drama in Pretoria, is bor

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Herman Charles Bosman, author of among others Mafeking Road and creator of the character “Oom Schalk Lourens”, is born in Kuils

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A car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing at least twenty people and injuring about sixty in the worst bombing during a three-yea

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Cricket coach Bob Woolmer is cremated in a private ceremony attended only by close relatives in Cape Town. It is believed that

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Jozua Francois (Tom) Naudé, first president of the senate of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 and acting state presi

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A prominent White South African lawyer and ANC member, Albie Sachs, is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and M

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The names of the four ‘homelands’ are changed: from Basotho ha Borwa (Southern Sotho) to Basotho-Qwaqwa; from Tswanaland to Bop

This day in history

A powerful bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Meadowlands, Soweto, at 7:00 pm. No one is injured.

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Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo. He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 19

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Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Worl

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Hundreds of police in Assiut, Egypt storm two buildings where bomb-throwing extremists are holed up. At least eleven people are

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres

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Passive Resister reports that Moulvi Saloojee, one of the most respected Muslim priests and an active member of the Working Com

SA tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men’s double title by beating twins Bob and Mike B

The Citizen reports on details of Mr Justice Tom van Reenen’s report on alleged irregularities in the awarding of housing contr

Eleven people die and seventy-six are injured in a bomb explosion in a store in Salisbury (now Harare) the capital of Rhodesia

Joseph Michael Solomon, architect partner of Herbert Baker, commits suicide in Cape Town. He was never to see the final com

An ANC car bomb attack directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, takes place in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. One pers

CNN announces that Haroon Rashid Aswat, the suspected mastermind of the bomb attacks in London on July 7, hid in South Africa f

Jan Hendrik Boom, gardener at the Cape, and his wife Annetjie (Annetjie de Boerin), receive permission to farm and keep dairy c

William Ledwaba (16) is killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. 18 September, given as the date of

A senior ANC member, P. Nyaose and his wife, are killed by a car bomb in Swaziland. Alfred Nzo, the ANC Secretary-General, blam

The entire family of Morgan Montoedi, five members, are killed in a petrol bomb attack on their home in Kagiso, West Rand.

Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d

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

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Bishop Desmond Tutu in Oslo. The ceremony is delayed for twenty minutes because of a bomb threat.

Anglo-Boer War 2: A squadron of Col. E.C. Bethune, under Capt. Geoff, runs into a well-placed ambush under Com. Blignaut at Sch

A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in

Thirty million people worldwide joined in pop singer Bob Geldof’s Race Against Time to raise money for the starving in Africa.

Lord Robert Stephenson Baden-Powell, British hero during the siege of Mafeking (1900) and founder of the Boy Scout movement in

Daniel Johannes Smal, reciter, producer of oneman shows and champion for the founding of a school for drama in Pretoria, is bor

Herman Charles Bosman, author of among others Mafeking Road and creator of the character “Oom Schalk Lourens”, is born in Kuils

A car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing at least twenty people and injuring about sixty in the worst bombing during a three-yea

Cricket coach Bob Woolmer is cremated in a private ceremony attended only by close relatives in Cape Town. It is believed that

Jozua Francois (Tom) Naudé, first president of the senate of the Republic of South Africa in 1961 and acting state presi

A prominent White South African lawyer and ANC member, Albie Sachs, is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and M

The names of the four ‘homelands’ are changed: from Basotho ha Borwa (Southern Sotho) to Basotho-Qwaqwa; from Tswanaland to Bop

A powerful bomb damages the office of the West Rand Administration Board in Meadowlands, Soweto, at 7:00 pm. No one is injured.

Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo. He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 19

Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Worl

Hundreds of police in Assiut, Egypt storm two buildings where bomb-throwing extremists are holed up. At least eleven people are

Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres