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Sudan closes her sea and airports to South Africa and Portugal.
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Indonesia announces the severance of diplomatic and commercial relations with South Africa, and the closure of Indonesian ports
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Dr. Abrahams makes a habeas corpus application to the Cape Supreme Court and demands his return to Bechuanaland where he claims
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The SA 6th Division enters Florence in World War 2.
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Italian troops force the British to withdraw from Somaliland.
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Willem Petrus (Willie) Esterhuyse, SA political analyst, is born.
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The Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging (ATKV), Afrikaans cultural organisation whose aim was to promote Afrikaans and the well
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Sir Christian Ludolph Neethling Felling (48), SA born manager of the railways in Kenya and Uganda, dies.
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Hans Jürgen Aschenborn, librarian, director of the State Library and receiver of the Sailis Award for Bibliography in 1985, is
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Graaff-Reinet, P.J. Fourie, J. van Rensburg and L.F.S. Pfeiffer are executed by a British firing squad for
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In a telegram to Milner, Chamberlain describes the proposals as “...an immense concession and even a considerable advance on yo
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR formally submits the proposals worked out between State Attorney Smuts and the British Agent Sir W. C
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The Transvaal Volksraad passes the Franchise Bill, reducing the residential qualification from nine to seven years.
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Theodore Walter Jandrell, SA teacher, inspector of schools and poet, is born in Richmond, CP.
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Reports that 89% of soldiers at a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) project had tested positive for HIV/Aids was &qu
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Reports that 89% of soldiers at a South African National Defence Force (SANDF) project had tested positive for HIV/Aids was &qu
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Douglas Fuchs (84), one of the first full-time Afrikaans broadcasters and former director general of the SABC, dies during a bo
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Congolese rebels send President Laurent Kabila’s troops fleeing as they advance to within 200km of the capital, now deprived of
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Congolese rebels send President Laurent Kabila’s troops fleeing as they advance to within 200km of the capital, now deprived of
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Flash floods in the Marrakesh region of Morocco kill at least 73 people.
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More than 120 people are killed by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake, which strikes the Mascara region of western Algeria. Another sou
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More than 120 people are killed by a magnitude 5.6 earthquake, which strikes the Mascara region of western Algeria. Another sou
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President Nelson Mandela makes a major policy speech in Parliament to mark his first 100 days as president.
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The United States tells Sudan that it has been placed on the list of nations accused of sponsoring terrorism.
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The Commonwealth announces that it will send a team of about a dozen observers to South Africa as part of international efforts
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The Commonwealth announces that it will send a team of about a dozen observers to South Africa as part of international efforts
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Following meetings between the SAG and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), broad agreement was reached that could lead
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Andre Maasdorp de Villiers, who disclosed information to the ANC and Natal-based weekly paper on activities of the SADF’s ‘Hamm
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Andre Maasdorp de Villiers, who disclosed information to the ANC and Natal-based weekly paper on activities of the SADF’s ‘Hamm
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