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The Afrikaanse Taalmuseum, also known as the Gideon Malherbe Museum in Pastorie Avenue, Paarl,is officially opened.
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Raymond Francis (Ray) Budd, SA trade unionist who also played a role internationally, dies in Tonbridge, London, England.
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A sharp increase in defence expenditure is announced.
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Over 200 students at the University of Cape Town embark on a “sit in” to protest against government intervention that forced th
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Bosman de Kock (45), director of PACT for eight months, dies.
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Henri Edouard Prosper Breuil (84), French archaeologist who did a lot of research with Dr Robert Broom in SA, dies in Paris.
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Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was
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UN peace-keeping forces finally replace Belgian troops in the Republic of Congo.
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The first countrywide association for Afrikaans students, the Afrikaanse Studentebond (ASB), is founded on initiative of the st
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WW 2: Japan surrenders unconditionally, bringing to an end a war in which millions of people, and many South Africans, were kil
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The SA rugby team loses the first test in Wellington against New Zealand 7-13.
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Jack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best-known plastic and reconstruction surgeons, is born in Cape Town.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer snipers suddenly open fire on the massed troops of the Canadians of Strathcona’s Horse, the first to ent
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General S.F. Oosthuizen dies of wounds received at Dwarsvlei on 11-07-1900.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: End of the ‘first De Wet hunt’. De Wet’s entire force crosses the unoccupied Olifants Nek Pass near Rusten
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The memorandum of the negotiations between J.C. Smuts of the ZAR and Sir W. Conyngham Greene of Britain, concerning the franchi
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The twentieth anniversary of the GRA (Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners) is celebrated and it is decided to hold the first Afrika
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Charles Frederick Morris Saint, first professor of surgery at the Medical school in Cape Town, is born in Northumberland, Engla
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Cetewayo (Cetshwayo), king of Zululand, visits Queen Victoria of Britain.
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The Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (GRA) is founded in Paarl, as a direct outcome of the efforts by Pannevis to have the Bible
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Willem Stephanus van Ryneveld (47), member of the Political Council, dies in Cape Town.
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More than 150 Congolese Tutsis are massacred in Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
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Athlete Mbulaeni Mulaudzi (800m) leads the SA team at the spectacular opening of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens.
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Libya and families of victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland sign an agreement to pay as muc
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Actor Deon Coetzee, of Egoli, and his wife, Gwen Johnson, are divorced in Johannesburg after a marriage of 3 years.
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The SA regional airline, Sun Air, discontinues its service and thousands of disappointed passengers have to acquire seats on ot
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Rebels fighting Congolese President Laurent Kabila capture a power transformer in western Congo, sending the capital, Kinshasa,
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Sam de Beer, former leader of the National Party in Gauteng, resigns and joins the United Democratic Movement (UDM).
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Eve Boswell (76), SA singer of Sugar Bush, dies.
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