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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR calls up the South African Republican Burgher Force.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In Bloemfontein the OFS Volksraad requests the ZAR to continue to pursue a peaceful solution, failing which,
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Johannes Scheepers, founder member of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) and organising secretary of the Oss
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Henry Brown Marshall asks Kidger Tucker to plan a new residential area for Johannesburg even before the planning of the mining
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Gen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born near Greytown, Natal.
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A British company obtains the monopoly for the slave trade from Africa.
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Cornelis van Quaelbergen succeeds Zacharias Wagenaer as commander of the Cape.
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Armed militiamen have surged into a border area near a western village, where some of the first Darfur refugees attempting to r
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In the Athens Paralympic Games Natalie du Toit wins her fifth gold medal, the 50m freestyle, in a world record 29.52sec, after
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Former president Nelson Mandela is declared the ‘Greatest South African’ in a TV show that had the country nominate their 100 f
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Two South Africans are appointed to a high-profile Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). The University of Na
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An ocean ferry owned and operated by Senegal capsizes off the coast of Gambia in the Atlantic Ocean, en route to the Senegalese
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The National Conventional Arms Control Committee for the sale of arms gives approval to Rwanda. Only ‘defensive arms’ are said
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Eugène de Kock alleges that the Swedish premier Olaf Palme was shot in 1986 by a South African secret agent.
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A bilateral summit between delegations of the ANC and the South African Government, led respectively by Nelson Mandela and Pres
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Eleven people die in Gengeshe, near Richmond, Natal, when about thirty unknown attackers open fire on residents. Mandlenkosi
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The Hiemstra Commission of Inquiry says the Johannesburg City Council spent R1,8-million of ratepayers’ money on the unlawful s
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The Star reports that Roelf Meyer, deputy minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, identified fourteen urban areas,
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Indian and Coloured members walk out of Parliament in protest against the draft Group Areas Amendment Bill, the Free Settlement
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A conference on the plight of children under apartheid begins in Harare.
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The Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, to which SA is a party, is signed in
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The Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident is signed in Vienna.
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Defence Act No 17, establishing a Ciskei defence force, commences.
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Schools re-open, but 93,000 pupils continue to boycott classes.
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Five of the political detainees are released and on the same day the banning order on Dr. Beyers Naudé is lifted.
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The Prime Minister tells the Cape Congress of the National Party that he is prepared to consider constructive suggestions for r
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Leaders of five black African nations decline to accept plan presented by Rhodesia’s Prime Minister Ian Smith to achieve black
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The Organisation of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU) condemns the South African government’s plan for Black works councils.
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Meeka, SA gospel singer, is born.
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