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Ernst Karl Erich Mayer, SA painter and land surveyor, is born in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Walter Harding, first Chief Justice of Natal, dies.
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Commissioner Van Overbeek buys the area between Hout Bay and Saldana Bay from the Khoi-Khoi.
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Rijkloff van Goens leaves Table Bay after a stay of one month to report on what has been accomplished at the Cape.
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Me Epainette Mbeki, businesswomen and community worker in Idutywa, Eastern Cape, receives the Order of the Baobab for her servi
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank meet in Washington, DC with finance ministers and central bankers from
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Several thousand mourners gather at a state funeral in Congo to pay tribute to 109 people killed in a series of mysterious airp
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Judge Edwin Cameron of SA reveals that he has been HIV positive since 1997.
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In a meeting with a representative of Lockerbie victims, Colonel Gaddafi agrees to hand over two suspects for trial by a Scotti
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Egyptian aircraft begin an UN-approved shuttle of Muslim pilgrims from Libya to Saudi Arabia.
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In terms of section 248 (1) of the Interim 1994 Constitution and acting on the advice of the Transitional Executive Council (TE
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Egyptian president Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat gets an overwhelming majority in a vote for peace treaty with Israel.
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The South African Police Force stationed in the Caprivi Strip, bordering Zambia, suffer casualties in clashes with ‘terrorists’
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The Boeing 707 Pretoria of SAA crashes just after take off from the Windhoek airport en route to London with 122 people on boar
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At the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela, former leader of the banned ANC, blames the actions of the government for adoption of pol
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As the nationalist uprising of the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (MPLA, Popular Liberation Movement of Angola) en
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Cheryl Carolus, SA High Commissioner in London, is born in Silvertown, Cape Flats.
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United Federal Party wins Northern Rhodesia elections, and African National Congress is suppressed.
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King Mohamed V of Morocco demands that all Spanish forces are removed from Moroccan territory.
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Mau-Mau members murder two schoolboys in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.
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Jeanette Ferreira, Afrikaans novelist, is born.
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A campaign to reduce governmental corruption, and to oust those identified, starts in Egypt.
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Nic Swanepoel, Afrikaans radio broadcaster, is born.
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Arnold Maurice Bengis, managing director of Hout Bay Fishing Industries, is born in Cape Town.
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Egyptian constitution is adopted. African History gives date as 19 April.
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Nicolaas Georg (Klaas) Steytler, Afrikaans author, is born.
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France offers military support to Abd al Hafid, Sultan of Morocco, to suppress a revolt.
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Oliver John (Jack) Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA Jack Hindon medal for outstanding service is named, is born in Scotla
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The first public worship of the Church of England, also called the Anglican Church, in South Africa, is conducted in Cape Town.
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