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Cecil John Rhodes makes his first will, leaving all his possessions to the British secretary of state for the colonies, in trus
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Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, sails for England after travelling extensively through the East
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The Cape Parliament guarantees freedom of speech in its proceedings.
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The Neptune, with 288 convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay amid strong resistance of Cape inhabitants.
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Josephus Suasso de Lima (46), first editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, ‘De Verzamelaar’, dies in Cape Tow
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At least ninety cars are destroyed when a runaway veld fire jumps the fence around a factory at Rosslyn.
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In Mozambique, twelve people are charged over a massive banking fraud, a case that was being investigated by murdered journalis
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SA gains 180 medals during the 7th All Africa Games that ends in Johannesburg; followed by Egypt with 156 and Nigeria with 128.
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Kevin Williams, member of a gang, dies in the regional court in Stellenbosch when his throat is cut while the court is in sessi
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Muslim extremists fire on a bus outside a museum in Cairo, killing ten people, mostly German tourists.
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Dr Mark Erdman and his wife, Arnaz Mehta, discovers a coelacanth in a fish market in Manado on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesi
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General Ronnie van der Westhuizen, head of the South African special investigations unit on political violence, says that twent
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SA signs a trade agreement with the government of Poland.
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William Ledwaba (16) is killed during a bomb attack on his home in Atteridgeville, Pretoria. 18 September, given as the date of
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South Africa’s Black gold miners today called off their first legal strike, which lasted just one day but, according to mine ow
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Egypt and Israel exchange rocket fire across Suez Canal.
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During a meeting with representatives of the nine member churches of the World Council of Churches in South Africa, Prime Minis
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Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica and Trinidad are admitted to the United Nations (UN), 105th-108th countries.
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Dag Hammarskjold, United Nations (UN) Secretary General, dies when his plane crashes under mysterious circumstances near Ndola
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Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburi, Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999 and former premier of th
EventGeorge Walker, co-discoverer with George Harrison of the gold reef of the Witwatersrand, dies in poverty in Krugersdorp.
It is widely accepted that the gold reef on the Witwatersrand was discovered by George Harrison. What has always been disputed is that English born, George…
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The notorious Foster gang under leadership of William Foster, who stole and raided from 1912 to 1914, commit suicide in Johanne
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WWI: A body of Active Citizen Force (A.C.F.) troops of the Union of SA, nearly 1 800 strong, lands at Lüderitsbucht (Angra P
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Brigadier-General Stephenson occupies Nelspruit without opposition and Lord Roberts transfers his headquarter
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The first British Army contingent from India embarks at Bombay for South Africa.
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Fox Odendaal, first president of the Performing Arts Council Transvaal, is born.
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War is barely averted when a British expedition to establish a route through Africa reaches an obscure Sudanese fort and finds
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The explorer John Speke (37), first White man to reach the origin of the Nile River, kills himself in a shooting accident.
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Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria opens the new building for the SA Library and Museum.
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