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Jan Lion Cachet, champion of Afrikaans and member of the firstand second Afrikaanse Taalbeweging (Afrikaans Language Movement),
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British colony of Southern Rhodesia (effective 1 Oct 1923) is proclaimed.
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On this day, the first and the last African ever to be elected to serve as a member of the Provincial Council wins the contest
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On this day, the first and the last African ever to be elected to serve as a member of the Provincial Council wins the contest
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Kwame Nkrumah, premier and later president of Ghana, is born in Nkroful, British colony of the Gold Coast (later Ghana).
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Uprisings in German South West Africa are suppressed.
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Uprisings in German South West Africa are suppressed.
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The last session of the Orange Free State Volksraad in the Raadsaal in President Brand Street, Bloemfontein, starts.
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The last session of the Orange Free State Volksraad in the Raadsaal in President Brand Street, Bloemfontein, starts.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Hong Kong offers military assistance to Great Britain.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Hong Kong offers military assistance to Great Britain.
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British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
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William George Ballinger, SA senator 1948-1960, is born in Birmingham, England.
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British force under Horatio Kitchener takes Dongola in the Sudan.
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William George Ballinger, SA senator 1948-1960, is born in Birmingham, England.
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Walter Spiethoff, royal opera singer and SA singer and composer, is born in Austria.
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Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, dies in London.
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Egidius Benedictus Watermeyer, jurist, politician and educator in the Cape Province, dies in London.
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Judge James Buchanan, state attorney of the ZAR in 1872, is born.
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Judge James Buchanan, state attorney of the ZAR in 1872, is born.
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International Alzheimer’s Day. (link no longer works)
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Nine miners die in an underground fire at the Northam Platinum mine near Thabazimbi,
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Pretoria schoolboy sprinter of Pretoria Boys’ High, Oscar Pistorius, falls coming out of the start of his 200m heat for leg amp
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Natalie du Toit, South Africa’s star performer at the Athens Paralympic Games wins her second gold medal with a record victory
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Zimbabwean vice president, Simon Muzenda dies after a long illness.
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Thirty passengers are injured and admitted to various hospitals when a taxi crashes into the back of another taxi on William Ni
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Public Enterprises Minister Jeff Radebe cancels the Komatiland forestry deal valued at R335m for the Zama Resources black empow
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Scorpion investigators raid the upmarket Glenhurst wine farm boxes of documents are removed. The raid is part of an ongoing b
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Controversial Springbok rugby fly half Butch James (22) receives a 6-week suspension because of his dangerous tackles.
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