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Anglo-Boer War 2: An extraordinary ZAR Government Gazette is published, containing Act no 5 of 1900, allowing for the reorgan
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Mary Elizabeth Barber, an 1820 Settler and early SA naturalist, author and painter, dies in Malvern, Natal. She was a remarka
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Christoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies.
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Johannes Anthonie Smith, painter, art critic and journalist, is born in Aberdeen, Karoo.
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Anglo-French dual control of Egypt is re-established.
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Italian opera star Luciano Pavarotti, hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, dies in his home after a long bat
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Mpho Gift Leremi, Mamelodi Sundowns soccer player, who has also represented Bafana Bafana, dies after losing control of his car
EventHumphrey Ndlovu, veteran IFP leader dies
Humphrey Mpumele Ndlovu was born at Emzweni in the Qamu Tribal Authority at Msinga, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He joined the Inkatha Cultural Liberation…
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Sierra Leone’s president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah shakes hands with his rebel counterpart Gen Issa Sesay, and declares the West Afric
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Brian Duddy (55), victim of the Planet Hollywood bomb attack, dies in Cape Town.
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Ciskei National Security Decree No 19, providing for indefinite detention without trial, commences.
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The National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) endorses proposals for the intensification of the mass
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Thousands of "non-Whites" march and bathe at "Whites only" beaches in a nationwide defiance campaign in Sou
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South Africa’s government re-imposes order prohibiting journalists from reporting actions of security forces.
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A march in which thousands of people take part to protest against councillors, leads to violence in the Vaal Triangle. The marc
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An explosion occurs at the Department of Internal Affairs, Harrison Street, Johannesburg, injuring four people and causing dama
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The new constitution of South Africa, providing for an executive state president, a parliament with three councils, a central c
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General Constand Viljoen is appointed as Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and Lieutenant-General Jan Geldenhuys
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John Wiley, former leader of the South African Party, is elected as National Party member for Simonstown, defeating the PFP can
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Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert is chosen as the Leader of the Opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP) in succession to Colin
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The Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation plus Operating Agreement, to which SA is a party, is signed
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Prime Minister Vorster flies to Zurich for talks (3-6 September) with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger
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Dr Petrus S.Z. Coetzee (90), first assessor of the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church, who inaugurated two of South Afr
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Joint routine exercises are held between the British Royal Navy and the South African Navy, under the Simonstown Agreement, and
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Dr. Verwoerd suggests that the three Protectorates might develop to independence under South Africa’s guidance rather than unde
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Premier H.F. Verwoerd assumes duty as Prime Minister and announces an intensification of the apartheids policy in parliament.
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Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser begins talks in Cairo on proposed negotiations for international control of the Suez Cana
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Melt Jacobus Brink (83), scriptwriter and poet, dies in Cape Town.
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The Freedom Deputation under Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog arrives in Durban from Europe after a fruitless effort to secure self-determin
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