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Robert Goodlonton (89), editor of the Graham’s Town Journal, dies in Grahamstown.
EventNicolaas Jacobus Smit, Vice-President of the ZAR, is born in Graaff-Reinet.
Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, was the eldest child of Nicolaas Jacobus Smit, (descendent of Jan Smit and Adriana Tol) and Elizabeth Magdalena van der Merwe, …
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The Rev. Andries Adriaan Louw, influential minister of the DRC, is born in Paarl.
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The British troopship Arniston is wrecked on the rocks at Waenhuiskrans(later called Arniston). 372 of the 378 people on board
EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
President Musa Yar’Adua was inaugurated as President of Nigeria, after the April 2007 elections. President Thabo Mbeki visited Nigeria for the inauguration…
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Ethiopia’s warplanes bomb a military airstrip on the outskirts of Asmara, taking its 2-week-old offensive to the Eritrean capit
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Olusegun Obasanjo becomes Nigeria’s first civilian president in fifteen years, ending a string of disastrous military regimes.
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Lehlohonolo Ledwaba, SA featherweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) title.
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Accepting a seventeen-gun salute, outgoing South African National Defence Force (SANDF) chief, General Georg Meiring, formally
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Angolan authorities announce that government troops have overrun large parts of northern Angola, previously controlled by the r
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New clues in the Dr Robert and Jean-Cora Smith murder investigation are discovered after twenty years. The letters RAU TEM
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Laurent Kabila is consecrated as new president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire).
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Dr Sibusiso Bengu, former minister of education, warns the University of Stellenbosch that it could not continue being an exclu
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Local elections held in the Western Cape result in the National Party securing control of all three district councils.
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France is accused by the Human Rights Arms Project of arming and training the Hutu extremists who organised the genocide in Rwa
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South Africa signs an agreement establishing diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
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Black Communities Development Amendment Act No 77 commences.
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Prime Minister Botha’s visit to eight countries in Europe Portugal, Great Britain, West Germany, Belgium, France, Austria, Ital
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The Republic of South Africa Constitution Fifth Amendment Bill, establishing a framework for deliberations on the country’s fut
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Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as first Black prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as the country is briefly known prior to i
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The South African Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM) announces in Pretoria that it has decided to order two nuclear power st
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After joint talks with Ian Smith of Rhodesia, the Prime Minister B.J. Vorster commits South Africa to co-operative coexistence
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Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, announces that the attorney-general of the Transvaal is to prosecute thirty of the 357 people
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The United Nations (UN) Security Council passes a resolution imposing mandatory sanctions on White-ruled Rhodesia.
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Wendy Nomathemba Luhabe, founder and managing partner of Bridging The Gap, a human resource management and development practice
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A "day of mourning" protest is planned by non-Whites against the Apartheid government’s latest racial legislation.
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Dr Azar Paul Jammine, businessman and director of several companies, is born in Alexandria, Egypt. He arrived in SA in 1950.
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André Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born in Vrede, OFS.
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The first consignment of 10 000 Afrikaans Bibles arrives from London at Cape Town with the Carnarvon Castle .
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