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Zephania Lekoane Mothopeng (Uncle Zeph), teacher, choirmaster and PAC president, is born in Vrede, OFS.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The youngest Boer commandant, 19 year old Commandant Piet van der Merwe and twenty-three burgers are killed i
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The youngest Boer commandant, 19 year old Commandant Piet van der Merwe and twenty-three burgers are killed i
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Representatives of the ZAR and the Free State governments meet in Nelspruit and decide to allow President K
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Allister Mackintosh, pilot and ‘father’ of SA aviation is born in Schombeni, Swaziland.
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Allister Mackintosh, pilot and ‘father’ of SA aviation is born in Schombeni, Swaziland.
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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights, is born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former
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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights, is born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former
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Dr Leander Starr Jameson assumes office as Administrator of Mashonaland.
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Fire breaks out in the Pembroke Castle in Cape Town docks and ten lives are lost.
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Daniël de Waal, judge president of the Transvaal, is born in Stellenbosch.
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Prof. Gabriël Gideon Cillié, member of the head committee of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK), is
EventFrance’s war in Morocco ends with Treaty of Tangier.
In August 1844 French forces under General Thomas Bugeaud defeated the Moroccan army in the battle of Isly. The battle was a result of the French government’s…
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Frans Bresler, landdros of Graaff-Reinet, confers with Lieutenant-Governor Francis Dundas in Algoa Bay on the withdrawal of Bri
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Mungo Park, Scottish explorer in Africa, is born.
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The government was implicitly involved in farm attacks, the union’s national safety and security committee chairperson Danie du
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Charges are withdrawn unexpectedly against Johan Meyer, a Gauteng businessman arrested on 2 September on charges of allegedly b
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The agriculture department promises that targets set for Black ownership of agriculture are negotiable, though, willing to nego
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C.J. (Pink) Julius (84), sole survivor of the Coloured Springbok Rugby team who toured Britain in 1939, dies.
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Mpush Makambi of SA wins the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) middleweight world champion title.
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Gunmen in Johannesburg kill twenty-one Black commuters.
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South Africa signs agreement with Israel on co-operation in the field of agriculture.
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A two-day follow-up conference on Educational Assistance to disadvantaged South Africans is organised in New York by the United
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Thirteen residents of Mofolo die in an attack by IFP members.
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Twenty-three IFP supporters die in Thokoza when three gunmen open fire on an IFP march.
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Twenty-six residents of Tladi, Soweto, die in a night attack by vigilantes.
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ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela warns that if the SA government fails to take effective steps to end the current violence i
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Margaret Mary Smith, artist and ichthyologist, dies in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape. She illustrated the book of her husband, Prof
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Diplomatic office of ANC in Stockholm bombed.
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