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Simultaneous attacks by Algerian rebels against French targets in the Constantine district of Algeria have resulted in over 500
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French forces force the Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, from the throne.
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Joseph Burtt Davy (70), SA grass expert and botanist, dies in Birmingham, England.
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The Oosterlig, Afrikaans newspaper in Port Elizabeth, is published for the first time.
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The restored Cape manor house Groot Constantia is opened again after a fire devastated it in 1925.
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Helen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA.
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William Booth (83), founder of the charitable Salvation Army who works also in SA, dies.
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King Leopold of Belgium hands over the Congo to the Belgian State. Previously he held it as a private possession. The Congo Fre
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Anglo-Boer War: Colonel Ingouville-Williams’ column transports General De la Rey’s 84 year old mother to the Klerksdorp concent
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The Transvaal National Union, political organisation established to further the interests of the Uitlanders (Foreigners), is fo
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Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (later the University o
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Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, is born.
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William Henry Bell, musician, composer and first director of the South African College of Music, known to his students as ‘Dadd
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Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, landscape painter, is born near Riversdale, Western Cape.
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Former apartheid-era security police colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt dies in Port Elizabeth after a battle with cancer. Nieuwoudt was
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An Islamic high court in the Katsina state of Nigeria, upholds a sentence of death by stoning for Amina Lawal, who had been con
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Former Anglo American and De Beers chairman, Harry Oppenheimer (91), dies after a short illness.
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The major political parties begin their submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
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Phillip Holiday, SA lightweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world champion title.
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SA signs memorandum of understanding with the government of Zimbabwe.
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South African Catholic Bishops Conference decides that economic sanctions are no longer necessary.
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Anti-apartheid sport personalities Rama Reddy and Krish Mackerdhuj are arrested during a demonstration in front of the Durban h
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The Department of Posts and Telecommunications dismisses 14 000 striking postal workers.
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Following the Rubicon speech four days earlier, Archbishop Desmond Tutu snubs P. W. Botha’s invitation on 19 August 1985 to att
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A mass arrest of 2,000 Nyanga squatters is carried out, under immigration legislation allowing summary deportation.
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Betsy de la Porte (76), SA singer, dies in Johannesburg.
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The Prime Minister meets for four hours in Cape Town with a delegation of politicians from the Coloured Representative Council
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The Chinese community, officially classed non-White in the past though they were admitted to White theatres, restaurants and re
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Nigeria’s Federal troops have launched a major offensive against multiple targets in Biafra. Despite claims of 2,000 people bei
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