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A.K. Ganyile, a Pondo leader and refugee in Basutoland is kidnapped with two companions by six South African policemen, taken a
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Sango Patekile Holomisa, president of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of SA, is born.
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Mohammed Iqbal Shaik, activist and member of the Dolphin Unit of the MK involved in sabotage operations until 1988, is born in
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Bongani Aug Khumalo, strategic advisor, Integrated Sustainable Rural Development & HIV/AIDS, Deputy President’s Office and
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David Maphugumzana Sibeko, insurance agent, journalist and politician, is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
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Joe Seremane, Democratic Alliance MP, is born.
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Treaty ends British occupation of Egypt, except Suez Canal zone, and Britain and Egypt form alliance for twenty years.
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 11-0 in Port Elizabeth to lead 3-1 in the series, with the last test still to be played.
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Several gatherings are held to introduce the first Bible in Afrikaans, culminating with the one in Bloemfontein.
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The first official commercial air service in South Africa is introduced by Major Allister Mackintosh Miller under the name of U
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World War 1: Centre of German East African government falls to General Jan Smuts.
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Dr John Wood (84), botanist and collector of plants, is born in Durban.
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The National Party in Transvaal is founded in the Erasmus Hall in Pretoria.
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The rugby match between SA and the British Isles in Johannesburg ends in a draw with ten points each.
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D. Olewagen and J. Nel are executed by firing squad for treason in the Cape Colony, because they acted as horse guards for an i
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Isabella Gordon (Tibbie) Visser, daughter of Pres. M.T. Steyn, politician and leader of the Voortrekker Youth Movement, is born
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British annex Tembuland to the Cape.
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The railway line from Port Elizabeth reaches Graaff-Reinet.
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John Buchan, English author who was also interested in citrus farming in SA, is born in Scotland.
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Christiaan Andries van Niekerk, commandant in the Anglo-Boer War 2 (one of only six persons to vote against the conclusion of p
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The Rev. Daniël Stephanus Botha, moderator of the DRC Cape Synod in 1919, is born in Goudini, CP.
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Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, monarch of the British Empire (thus also of the Union of SA at the time), is born at
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The district of Graaff-Reinet is constituted.
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Johann Rupert, chairperson of Richemont and Remgro and prominent business leader, lashes out at a meeting in Cape Town against
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Mark Thatcher, SA business man and son of Margaret Thatcher, is arrested by the Scorpions on the suspicion of providing about $
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The Medicines Control Council (MCC) threatens to de-register Nevirapine unless further studies and appropriate documentation ca
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The Zimbabwe government names another 509 White-owned farms it plans to confiscate for redistribution to landless Blacks, bring
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A bomb explodes in the Planet Hollywood restaurant at Cape Town’s popular Victoria & Alfred Waterfront killing one person a
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About 100 local businessmen, led by John Magolego, agree to organise Mapogo a Mathamaga on the day after the burial of the eigh
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