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French, Algerian, and Senegalese troops are to be sent to help put down the tribesmen revolt in Morocco. However, Germany has p
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Bram Fischer, son of a Judge President of the Orange Free State, grandson of a Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony, lawye
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An Algerian Office is created within the French Ministry of the Interior.
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Muhammed Abdalah Hassan (the ‘Mad Mullah’) suffers heavy losses in further encounters with British forces.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: During a meeting held in the Vryheid district to elect delegates for the peace conference, Commandant-General
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Abraham Jacobus Kotzé de Klerk, missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church in Ceylon, is born in Garies, Namaqualand.
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Claude Pagdett Carter, SA cricket player in ten test matches, is born in Durban.
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Eugenie, Empress of the French and wife of Emperor Napoleon III, arrives in Durban to visit the grave of her son, the Prince Im
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Ashanti War breaks out in Africa.
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Lord Allenby, commander of the Egyptian forces who freed Jerusalem in 1917 from the Turks, is born.
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Andries Jacobus Bester, Boer commandant, is born in Bloemfontein
Andries Jacobus Bester, Boer commandant of the Bethlehem commando who fought in the Battle of Colesberg during the Anglo-Boer War 2, is born in Bloemfontein.
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A mass meeting is held in Cape Town to petition Queen Victoria to grant the Cape responsible government.
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Hendrik Cloete, formerly of Cape Town, is appointed Her Majesty’s Commissioner of Natal.
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Piet Retief orders Erasmus Smit to ordain himself (Smit) as minister of the Voortrekkers, but meets with violent opposition b
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George is proclaimed a separate district and the town is called George Town. ;
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Jonkheer Gerard Beelaerts van Blokland arrives from the Netherlands in Simonstown as solicitor-general.
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Pieter Gysbert van Noodt (48) dies of a sudden heart attack at the same time as four deserted soldiers, who had resisted arre
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Willem Adriaan van der Stel, governor at the Cape, is recalled to the Netherlands.
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Outgoing North West premier Popo Molefe is quitting formal politics to give more attention to his "personal health and fam
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Kitch Christie (58), coach of the SA rugby team who won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, dies of cancer in a hospital in Pretoria.
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A devastating veld fire near Plettenberg Bay claims six lives and destroys 220 000 hectare of vegetation.
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Hutu refugees flee the refugee camp at Kibeho, Zaire, after soldiers gun down thousands or are trampled to death in stampedes.
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SA signs an agreement with the government of Namibia concerning broadcasting services to Walvis Bay.
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A military court in Cairo sentences seven of forty-nine Islamic militants to death for attacks against tourists.
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
Dr Andries Treurnicht was born on 19 February 1921 on Middelpos farm in Piketberg, Western Cape. In 1942 he enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch where he…
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Nigeria’s ruling generals crushed a six-hour rebellion by junior officers.
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Mr Nelson Mandela visits his family home at Qunu, 30km from Umtata and addresses a rally of 50 000 people in Umtata, sharing a
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The Star reports that Gordon Webster, an alleged ANC insurgent, was found guilty of the murder of a policeman and the attempted
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Business Day reports that two Ciskei security policemen were killed and one injured in April in a shootout near Alice, Ciskei,
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