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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant Piet Fourie, joined by Nieuwoudt and Kritzinger, take Ladybrand, OFS, in a street by street fight,
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Two Australians of the Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen, Lieutenant Wylly and Private Bisdee, display exceptional b
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the ZAR (Transvaal Republic).
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Sir John Charles Molteno (72), first prime minister of the Cape Colony, dies in Cape Town.
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Britain signs peace treaty with Zulus in South Africa. Another source gives the date as 2 September.
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Theophilus Shepstone, son of British Settlers and appointed by the British government as Diplomatic Agent to the Native Tribes
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Cecil John Rhodes arrives in Durban on doctor’s advice to move to a warmer climate.
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The Wesleyan Mission Press completes the printing of the Xhosa Bible.
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The world’s first-ever triangular postal stamps are issued in the Cape Colony.
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Artist William Cornwallis starts his journey into the interior in Graaff-Reinet. He reached Kuruman, where he met missionary Ro
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National Day of Libya.
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Start of National Arbor Week.
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It is announced that Prof. Bakabigny Keita spent eleven days on the road walking 500 km from Bakouroufata, in the western Kayes
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Delegates from more than 160 countries attend the weeklong third United Nations-sponsored World Conference Against Racism (31 A
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Prof. Gerhard Johannes Beukes, Afrikaans expert in literature and dramatist, dies in Bloemfontein.
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An explosion in a market in Algiers, Algeria kills at least seventeen people and wounds approximately 60.
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The United States closes its embassies in Ghana and Togo indefinitely because of security threats.
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Lady Diana Spencer, the former wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, is killed with her companion Dodi Fayed in a car accident in P
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A car bomb explodes in a crowded square outside Algeria’s national police headquarters, killing 10 and injuring 15.
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SA signs bilateral air transport agreement with Hungary.
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Multilateral agreement between the governments of Ciskei, South Africa, Transkei and Venda on the cross-border transportation o
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Multilateral agreement between the governments of Ciskei, South Africa, Transkei and Venda on the cross-border transportation o
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SA signs agreement with Mozambique concerning fishing matters.
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Soweto agrees to pay rent. (Wessels, E and Weinberg, S. (1990). “Soweto agrees to pay its rent – but power cuts loom weekly.
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The Natal Congress of the National Party unanimously approved a call by the party leadership to "make membership of the Na
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Police seize documents and videos from the home of the general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) passed a resolution barring any athlete from the Olympics who competes in South Afric
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Five days before the Whites only general election South Africans all over the country organise a defiance campaign against the
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Nelson Mandela is transferred from Tygerberg Hospital, where he received treatment for tuberculosis.
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