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The ‘Voortrekker Beweging’ (an Afrikaans youth movement), is founded in Bloemfontein with Dr N.J. van der Merwe as first chief
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The War Museum at the ‘Vrouemonument’ (Women’s Memorial) in Bloemfontein is officially inaugurated by Gen. Hertzog.
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France takes over the mandate for Togo (previously a German colony).
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Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer (77), governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, dies in Norfolk, Eng
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Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker, medical doctor and prominent politician, is born in Durban.
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The Dutch Reformed church in Bosman Street, designed by Klaas van Rijsse and Weijers, is consecrated.
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Cornelis Broeksma, an attorney from Holland, is executed as a traitor by firing squad at the Johannesburg Fort. Information abo
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Moedwil takes place, with the Boer forces under Gen. De la Rey and Kemp retreating after fierce
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The major mines on the Reef cease to operate, including the Simmer & Jack, the Wolhuter, the Geldenhuys D
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR government asks for the ‘final’ British proposals which Chamberlain has stated will be communicated i
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France proclaims a protectorate over Madagascar.
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Bechuanaland becomes a British protectorate.
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Sydney Richfield, SA composer, is born in London.
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Lord Frederick Sleigh Roberts, British officer in command during Anglo-Boer War 2, is born in Cawnpore, UK.
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Georg Schmidt, first Protestant missionary (Moravian Brethren) in SA, who established a mission station under the Hottentots (K
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National Day of Botswana.
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Studying fossilised micro-organisms taken from 3.8-billion-year-old sedimentary rock at Barberton, Mpumalanga, geologists Micha
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A manned private rocket ship SpaceShipOne, piloted by 62-year-old South African-born Michael Melvill, bursts through the Earth’
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The AU is planning to send "several thousand" more troops to Sudan’s troubled Darfur region. http://www.news24.com
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South Africa calls for an urgent solution to the row over Iran’s nuclear programme following a meeting in Johannesburg between
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Three-day parliamentary elections begin in Rwanda.
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Gé Korsten (71), popular SA tenor and actor, commits suicide in his Wilderness home.
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Nic Swanepoel (58), SA radio broadcaster and TV newsreader, dies in Johannesburg.
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Mbulelo Botile wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) bantamweight title
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Samuel Motha, IFP chairman of Kwa-Tema branch, is shot in the head on his way to work.
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KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, President Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana and Ciskei’s Oupa Gqozo reject the recor
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The Goldstone Commission issues its report on the Bisho massacre, in which it describes the "indiscriminate" shooting
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Political assassination: Sam Ntuli (31), general secretary of CAST, chair of Thokoza Civic Association and ANC member, is shot
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Reverend Allan Boesak is elected Chairman of the ANC’s Western Cape region.
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