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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to
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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to
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General Jan Smuts leaves Cape Town for London to attend the world economic conference.
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In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.
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In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.
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The Law on National Parks is passed and the name of Sabie Game Reserve is changed to the Kruger National Park.
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Bas Goedhart, SA journalist and author, is born in the Netherlands.
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Bas Goedhart, SA journalist and author, is born in the Netherlands.
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Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa
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William Ewart Gladstone (W.E.G.) Louw, SA poet and literator and younger brother of N.P. van Wyk Louw, is born in Sutherland.
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Die Brandwag, Afrikaans magazine, is published for the first time with Gustav Preller and W.M.R. Malherbe as editors.
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Dr. Walter Rubusana (African) and Dr. Abdullah Abdurahman (Coloured) are elected to the Cape Provincial Council.
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is inaugurated, eight years after the declaration of peace at Vereeniging, from four colonies: Cape Colony, Natal, Orange Rive
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A severe hailstorm hits Natal, wreaking havoc on the colony’s agriculture and economy, already in a weak position because of a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer delegates at the Vereeniging national delegation agree fifty-four to six to accept the British proposals
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer. Colonel Bottomley warns him that unde
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Vlakfontein (the present day Derby), Gen. Kemp attacks Brigadier-Gen. Dixon and captures the field guns. D
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger wires Pres. Steyn that only a handful of ZAR burghers are willing to continue the struggle.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under Lord Roberts enter Johannesburg as the Boers withdraw to Pretoria. The British flag is h
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George Whitehouse, a British engineer, decides to build a workshop for Uganda Railway in a swamp where Kenya’s capital, Nairobi
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Andries Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, is reburied in Pretoria after thirty-eight years.
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The first census in the Orange Free State is held. Bloemfontein has 2 567 inhabitants.
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Dr Thomas Barrow Dowling, director of the SA Music Association, is born in Wiltshire, England.
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Natal, annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, becomes a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. (Muller (ed): 500
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Guy Tachard, a French astronomer, sets up an observatory in die Company Gardens at the Cape of Good Hope.
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World No-Tobacco Day.
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The Welkom based Thabong Serenade Choir becomes the first choir outside Gauteng to win the Gauteng Choral Music Association’s c
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Deputy president says an economic collapse in Zimbabwe would widely affect southern Africa. South Africa believes it cannot re
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Kenyan police charges ‘prophetess’ Lucy Nduta, with six counts of fraud, alleging that she cheated HIV/Aids patients out of h
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