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Ruth Elizabeth Arndt, pre-school educationist, dies in Pretoria.
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Prime Minister B.J. Vorster announces the arrest of a fully trained KGB agent, Yuri N. Loginov, in Johannesburg. He is on a spe
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It is officially disclosed that South African police are in Rhodesia actively helping in the fight against Nationalist guerrill
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Zingile Alfred Dingane, MEC for Finance, Expenditure and Economic Affairs, Free State Provincial Government and leader of sever
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Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, dies in Teyateyaneng, Ba
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Mario Schiess, SA playwright and director, is born.
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Samuel Cronwright-Schreiner, (73), husband of SA author Olive Schreiner, dies in Rondebosch, Cape Town.
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General Louis Botha announces the South African government’s decision to carry the war into German South West Africa.
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Count Sydney Charles Buxton becomes the second governor-general of the Union of South Africa.
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Kalie Heese, DRC minister and academic, is born.
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H.F. Verwoerd, future SA prime minister and architect of apartheid, is born in the Netherlands.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Buller, with 12,000 men and forty-eight guns, attack Gen. Botha’s position at Paardeplaats, near Lyden
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Digging for gold is officially authorised and fortune hunters flock to the Witwatersrand.
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William Storey Bridekirk, printer and publisher, dies in Cape Town.
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King William IV is crowned as king of Great Britain and the British Colonies.
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The first recorded appearance of Halley’s Comet in the southern hemisphere is entered in the diary of the Cape governor.
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International Literacy Day.
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Well-known Blue Bull rugby player, Ettienne Botha, is killed in an accident on the N1 freeway.
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Mark Thatcher is served with a subpoena by the SA government to answer questions, following Pretoria’s agreement to assist Equa
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President Thabo Mbeki leads a South African delegation in a two-day meeting with representatives of the Israeli Likud Party at
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Parliament has been defrauded of about R17m by some MPs in the alleged voucher scam, according to SAA’s latest report.
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Leaders of the Azanian People’s Organisation, the Socialist Party of Azania and the Black People’s Convention announce they wil
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Police have arrested a 39 year old Pretoria priest for conducting at least 600 fake marriages between foreigners and unsuspecti
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Beyers Naude (89), an Afrikaner cleric who became one of the most important moral voices of the anti-apartheid movement, passes
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SA President Mbeki addresses the United Nations Millennium Summit in New York.
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The official opposition party in Namibia, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (DTA), fires its leader, Mishake Muyongo, because h
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Anglo American announces its decision to invest R4 billion in the zinc-mining project in Gamsberg, Northern Cape.
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Mobutu Sese Seko (66), former president of Zaire, dies in exile in Rabat, Morocco, three months after the end of his nearly 32
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SA signs joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations with the Laos People’s Democratic Republic.
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