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Fietas, Johannesburg: A memorandum relating to the housing conditions and need for housing schemes of poorer Indians is present
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Garfield Todd, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) from 1953 to 1958, is born at Invercargill, New Zealand.
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The Johannesburg chief magistrate refuses permission for a concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday. The date is g
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Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 metres in less than 27 minutes.
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Seven Muslim radicals are hanged in Egypt for attacking foreign tourists in their campaign to overthrow the government.
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Opening of Delagoa Bay Railway. According to SESA, the regular railway service between Pretoria and Lourenço Marques stared
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Herry, also known as Autshumao, Khoi-Khoi interpreter and chief of the Goringhaikonas, is banished to Robben Island
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I.B. Tabata requests Professor Davidson Don Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu to attend a meeting of the All African Convention (AAC) of
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A German baker, Carel Christoph Pabst, starts a music school in Cape Town to train amateur musicians for his orchestra.
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A United Nations eight-man committee with instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa is r
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Marthinus Adrianus Bergh, magistrate of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein and later leader of the second deputation of Patriots to t
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Anglo-Boer War 2: the British forces occupy Utrecht after the defending burgers had to retire the previous day.
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Brussels Act is passed by international conference to eradicate African slave trade and liquor traffic with primitive peoples.
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Speech during a visit to the Harvey Cohen School for the Mentally Handicapped Eldorado Park, Tuesday 13 April 1999
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Speech during a visit to the Harvey Cohen School for the Mentally Handicapped Eldorado Park, Tuesday 13 April 1999
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Speech during a visit to the Harvey Cohen School for the Mentally Handicapped Eldorado Park, Tuesday 13 April 1999
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Speech by President Mandela to the National Assembly of the Republic of Mauritius Port Louis, 12 September 1998
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Speech by President Mandela to the National Assembly of the Republic of Mauritius Port Louis, 12 September 1998
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Response by President Nelson Mandela to the 1994 Peace Lecture of the WCRP (South African Chapter) 7 August 1994
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Televised address to the Nation by President, Nelson R. Mandela, on the assassination of Chris Hani 13 April, 1993
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Press statement by Nelson Mandela in response to the call made by King Goodwill Zwelithini 14 May 1993
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Ahomed Ebrahim Lambat, attorney, politician, community worker and sworn translator to the Supreme Court in Urdu and Gujarati, i
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Beatle records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments.
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Fighting along the Egyptian-Israeli border is brought to a halt as a new 90-day cease-fire takes effect.
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The SA Air Force announces that Mirages will be phased out because of a cut to the defence budget.
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Griqualand West is annexed to the Cape Colony, after it was proclaimed British territory on 27 October 1871.
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A peace treaty with Tripoli, which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis, brings an end to the Barbary Wars.
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Passive Resister reports that over 300 Passive Resisters were serving sentences ranging from twenty days to six months.
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The Foreign Ministers of eight Commonwealth countries ends a two-day meeting in Toronto by endorsing international efforts to s
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