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A prison warder, Jacques Horne, 31, on escort duty is shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town’s Groot

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An American soldier is killed by a land mine in Somalia and a second dies in a truck crash, bringing to six the number of Ameri

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João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind. The stone is now kept in the South African M

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An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the

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Winnie Mandela is found guilty on four charges of kidnapping and four of being an accessory after the fact to assault. Co-accus

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The death toll after an outbreak of a deadly Ebola-like disease in Angola climbs to 122. The country turns to civilians and the

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Language Shift, Cultural Change and Identity Retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and Beyond by Rajend Mesthrie

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Pan-African History: Political figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 by Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood

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Zimbabwean Transitions: Essays on Zimbabwean Literature in English, Ndebele and Shona edited by Mbongeni Z. Malaba and Goeffrey V. Davis

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The Live Aid concert for African famine relief takes place simultaneously in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London, England and

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The SA Police and the Defence Force ambush and kill six alleged Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) members near Alldays.

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Kananelo Mosalla Makhetha, managing director of Connex Travel (1996-) and former financial manager of Rennies Travel and other

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Malawi gains independence from Britain (was Nyasaland, then federated with Northern and Southern Rhodesia between 1953 and 1963

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Marthinus Adrianus Bergh, magistrate of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein and later leader of the second deputation of Patriots to t

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A train is derailed and ploughs through a town near Alexandria, Egypt, killing forty-seven and injuring one hundred people.

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In response to a call by President Nelson Mandela, representatives of government, business, labour and other community and deve

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Avashoni Mainganye, SA artist who writes poetry, and works as a photographer, painter, printmaker and sculptor, is born Tshivas

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Multilateral agreement between the governments of South Africa and Mozambique and the UNHCR for the voluntary repatriation of M

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Dr Anthony Edward (Anton) Rupert, industrial chemist and SA business entrepreneur and magnate, is born in Graaff-Reinet.

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Gerrit Besselaar, cultural leader and Afrikaans author, arrives in Cape Town from the Netherlands and leaves for Bloemfontein t

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Gerrit Besselaar, cultural leader and Afrikaans author, arrives in Cape Town from the Netherlands and leaves for Bloemfontein t

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Ahomed Ebrahim Lambat, attorney, politician, community worker and sworn translator to the Supreme Court in Urdu and Gujarati, i

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Indonesia announces the severance of diplomatic and commercial relations with South Africa, and the closure of Indonesian ports

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Co-operation and Development Minister, Piet Koornhof, states that uncontrolled squatting cannot be tolerated, and will not be a

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Report on proceedings and resolutions of the Non-European Conference, in The Cape Times, January 4 and 6, 1930 [Extracts]

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In a major cabinet reshuffle after the ‘Inkathagate’ incident, Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Genera

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South Africa and Lesotho exchange prisoners across the Caledon River, heralding a new rapprochement and a lifting of strict bor

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Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion by Sol. T. Plaatje

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Forty-seven commuters have died on the previous and this day in attacks on Jeppe and Denver stations.

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Three leading anti-apartheid activists, Mohammed Valhi Moasa, Murphy Moroke, and Vusi Khanyile, escape from detention and seek

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A prison warder, Jacques Horne, 31, on escort duty is shot dead and another injured in an attack by gunmen at Cape Town’s Groot

An American soldier is killed by a land mine in Somalia and a second dies in a truck crash, bringing to six the number of Ameri

João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind. The stone is now kept in the South African M

An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the

Winnie Mandela is found guilty on four charges of kidnapping and four of being an accessory after the fact to assault. Co-accus

The death toll after an outbreak of a deadly Ebola-like disease in Angola climbs to 122. The country turns to civilians and the

Language Shift, Cultural Change and Identity Retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and Beyond by Rajend Mesthrie

Pan-African History: Political figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 by Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood

Zimbabwean Transitions: Essays on Zimbabwean Literature in English, Ndebele and Shona edited by Mbongeni Z. Malaba and Goeffrey V. Davis

The Live Aid concert for African famine relief takes place simultaneously in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and London, England and

The SA Police and the Defence Force ambush and kill six alleged Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) members near Alldays.

Kananelo Mosalla Makhetha, managing director of Connex Travel (1996-) and former financial manager of Rennies Travel and other

Malawi gains independence from Britain (was Nyasaland, then federated with Northern and Southern Rhodesia between 1953 and 1963

Marthinus Adrianus Bergh, magistrate of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein and later leader of the second deputation of Patriots to t

A train is derailed and ploughs through a town near Alexandria, Egypt, killing forty-seven and injuring one hundred people.

In response to a call by President Nelson Mandela, representatives of government, business, labour and other community and deve

Avashoni Mainganye, SA artist who writes poetry, and works as a photographer, painter, printmaker and sculptor, is born Tshivas

Multilateral agreement between the governments of South Africa and Mozambique and the UNHCR for the voluntary repatriation of M

Dr Anthony Edward (Anton) Rupert, industrial chemist and SA business entrepreneur and magnate, is born in Graaff-Reinet.

Gerrit Besselaar, cultural leader and Afrikaans author, arrives in Cape Town from the Netherlands and leaves for Bloemfontein t

Gerrit Besselaar, cultural leader and Afrikaans author, arrives in Cape Town from the Netherlands and leaves for Bloemfontein t

Ahomed Ebrahim Lambat, attorney, politician, community worker and sworn translator to the Supreme Court in Urdu and Gujarati, i

Indonesia announces the severance of diplomatic and commercial relations with South Africa, and the closure of Indonesian ports

Co-operation and Development Minister, Piet Koornhof, states that uncontrolled squatting cannot be tolerated, and will not be a

Report on proceedings and resolutions of the Non-European Conference, in The Cape Times, January 4 and 6, 1930 [Extracts]

In a major cabinet reshuffle after the ‘Inkathagate’ incident, Law and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister Genera

South Africa and Lesotho exchange prisoners across the Caledon River, heralding a new rapprochement and a lifting of strict bor

Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion by Sol. T. Plaatje

Forty-seven commuters have died on the previous and this day in attacks on Jeppe and Denver stations.

Three leading anti-apartheid activists, Mohammed Valhi Moasa, Murphy Moroke, and Vusi Khanyile, escape from detention and seek