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Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian nationalist, returns from exile on Iles de Groix (off the Bretagne coast, France).
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Mzolisi Goodman Diliza, businessman and Chief Executive of the Chamber of Mines of SA, is born. He was the first Black to be ap
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Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius), ambitious and charismatic leader of the Zion Christian Church,
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Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act No 25 commences.
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WWII: According to an entry in the squadron’s diary, 28 Squadron of the SA Air Force is formed as a transport squadron at the S
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Jan F.E. Cilliers (70), SA poet of “Die Vlakte” and other poems, dies in Harrismith, OFS.
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The South African Police takes over the tasks of the German South-West African police. 423 members of the disbanded police forc
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Ezrom Kgobokanyo Sebata Legae, SA artist, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. He studied at the Polly Street and Jubilee Art
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Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes, S.A artist, is born in East London, Eastern Cape.
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E.J. Grobbelaar Versekering, first Afrikaans burial society, is founded.
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The so-called Adendorff trek to Banjailand (Southern Rhodesia) would have started on this day, but Pres. Paul Kruger imposed a
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Second sale of land in Johannesburg takes place, on the site of the now-abandoned mining claims in the central city area. See:
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Empress Eugenie keeps an all-night vigil at the spot in Zululand where her son, the Prince Imperial of France, was killed on th
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Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, the 22 year old Prince Imperial of France, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War when he and a Bri
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The name of Lord Charles Somerset, governor of the Cape, is linked to Dr James Barry (who performed the first caesarean in the
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Captain Robert Gordon, who named the Orange River after the Prince of Orange in 1779, arrives in South Africa.
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The Jonge Thomas, a Dutch East India ship, is wrecked in a gale near Salt River mouth in Table Bay. Wolraad Woltemade, passing
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National Day of Tunis.
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International Children’s Day.
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President Mbeki welcomes Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his family in SA.
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Reigning champion France is beaten 1-0 by Senegal in the opening game of football’s World Cup in South Korea.
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Former editor and publisher of Drum magazine, Jim Bailey, receives the award of Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his c
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Mozambique’s southern province of Inhambane warns that 100 000 people in the province are at risk of starvation because poor ra
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South Africa joins the Non-Aligned Movement and signs an agreement establishing diplomatic relations with Iceland.
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The Rwanda Genocide. At least 500,000 are reported as dead from the fighting between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda.
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Rival political and ethnic groups riot in Rwanda, killing at least five people ahead of peace talks.
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The civil war in Angola ends officially after seventeen years, though fighting still occurs occasionally.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on death row, inc
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Samuel Tshabalala wins the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades, the first Black person to win the race since the ban on their part
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