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Gen. Sir Redvers Buller embarks at Southampton on board the Dunnottar Castle, one of his fellow-passengers being Winston Church
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Sir de Villiers Graaff announces his retirement from politics, having been leader of the opposition from 1956 until the dissolu
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Political assassination: Nic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement, is
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Kuwait breaks off diplomatic relations with South Africa and all Kuwaiti air and seaports are closed to South African aircraft
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The first official commercial air service in South Africa is introduced by Major Allister Mackintosh Miller under the name of U
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Sir Donald Currie, ship magnate and donor of the Currie Cups for rugby and cricket, is born in Greenock, Scotland.
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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC), the first permanent political organisation to maintain and protect the rights of Indians in So
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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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Sir George Gray, governor of the Cape, lays the cornerstone of the New Somerset Hospital in Green Point, Cape Town.
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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 SA regional airline, Sun Air, discontinues its service and thousands of disappointed passengers have to acquire seats on ot
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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) declines an invitation by the Durban Mayor’s office to enable members of the Indian community t
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A serious peacetime air force accident takes place when a 20-lb bomb falls from a military DH9 bomber, which was damaged during
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Progressive Party in South Africa announces his formal opposition to the South African
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Mozambique rejects the findings of the Margo commission of inquiry into the air crash in which Mozambican leader Samora Machel
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WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Sir Harold Alexander’s 18th Army Group captures Bizerte and Tunis. All that rema
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Sir Bartle Frere meets the Transvaal Boers assembled in support of their claim to independence. He promises them complete freed
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JARIC, voted best support unit of the SA Air Force 2003, is established as a section of the Central Phototechnical Establishmen
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Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, British philanthropist who influenced British policy in South Africa to a large extent, is born in Es
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Simon Mann, arrested in Zimbabwe, writes a letter pleading with associates, including Sir Mark Thatcher, to get him out of pris
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The consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free-to-air television licence and e.tv started broadcastin
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor
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Daniël Petrus Goosen (53), member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy of Science and
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Sir Bartle Frere, new British High Commissioner, delivers an ultimatum to Cetewayo, Zulu chief, to disband his army, hand over
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Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer, governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, is born in England.
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The Herschel School opens in Claremont, Cape Town. It is named after Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer an
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SAA, inaugurated the previous year, takes over South-West African Airways which has since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail
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Munitions at an army base in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, explode, sending fireballs and shrapnel into the air and fo
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson and about 500 Rhodesian police surrender at Doornkop, near Krugersdorp, after the failure of the Jame
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