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Ngconde Balfour, Minister of Correctional Services of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.
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The World Council of Churches is founded in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Beauclerk Upington, advocate, politician, yachtsman and president of the South African Football (Soccer) Association (1913-22),
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Sir Thomas Cullinan (74), founder of the Premier Mine where the Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1907, dies.
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The congress of the South African Party accepts the proposed agreement for unification between Gen. Hertzog and Gen. Smuts.
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Mohandas Gandhi is released from Poona jail after he nearly lost his life while on a hunger strike.
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Dulcie van den Berg, SA actress, is born.
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The SA rugby team beats the British Isles 17-0 in Johannesburg.
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Harold Cressy, educationist and teacher who graduated with a BA degree at the end of 1910 and took the lead in establishing a C
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William H. Addison (85), Natal physician and researcher, dies in Howick.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall embark at Simon’s Town for Canada on the next leg of their royal tour.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A group of eight surrendered Boer prisoners of war are shot by the Bushveld Carbineers and a German mission
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Despite the concessions made by the ZAR in its final proposal, Sir A. Milner urges the despatch of an expedit
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Sangiro (pseudonym of Andries Albertus Pienaar), SA author, is born in Broederstroom, Tvl.
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James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, trade unionist and political activist, member of the SACP and president of the South African Colo
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The first rugby match in SA takes place on the Green Point common, Cape Town, between a military and civilian team.
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Prince Alfred, second son of Queen Victoria, arrives in Bloemfontein on horseback.
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The Voortrekker leader Louis Trichardt starts on his epic journey from the Soutpansberg to Delagoa Bay.
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The first sermon is preached in the old Groote Kerk in Cape Town.
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Joan van Arckel establishes the first congregation at the Cape, with Abraham Schut as elder and Jan Reyniersz as deacon.
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The Chamber of XVII orders Jan Van Riebeeck to restrict the allocation of farms at the Cape to officials who wanted to farm, to
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International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and -Abolition.
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Somalia’s first parliament for thirteen years is sworn in during a ceremony in Nairobi, Kenya.
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President Thabo Mbeki is awarded the title of Newsmaker of the Year from Pretoria Press Club. m
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SA wins the Tri-Nations rugby series by beating Australia 29-15 on the Ellis Park field, Johannesburg.
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Seven people die in a devastating field fire near Lindley, Free State.
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The ANC presents to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a detailed 300-page analysis of the ANC’s human rights record and s
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Parliament elects Negaso Gidada as president of the newly-named Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
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Minister of Safety and Security, Sydney Mufamadi, visits violence-torn KwaZulu/Natal. He states that 1000 extra troops and poli
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