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Merchant Jan van Riebeeck is appointed commander at the Cape at a salary of 90 Dutch guilder per year and not 150, as was his r
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Two Libyan suspects are charged officially in Kamp Zest, the Netherlands, of causing the bomb explosion on board a Boeing 747 t
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Dissident soldiers shoot dead Lesotho’s deputy prime minister and seize four cabinet ministers in a mutiny over a planned gover
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Violence rages throughout South Africa as hundreds of thousands of Blacks protest the slaying of popular Communist Party chief
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Eleven people are killed in Nancefield, PWV, in a clash between Nancefield hostel and Power Park squatter camp.
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Zweli Tshabalala, member of Azanian Youth Organisation, is shot dead at home in Alexandra, PWV, in an alleged political murder.
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Nelson Mandela admits that members of the ANC had tortured dissident guerrillas, but said the officials involved had been punis
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Chris Ntuli, former detainee, is stabbed after returning from reporting to Inanda police station in compliance with his restric
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William Oliphant, unionist, is found dead on a farm near Koster, Western Transvaal, after being abducted two weeks earlier in w
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Desmond Tutu is selected as the archbishop of Cape Town, head of the Anglican Church of South Africa.
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Siphiwe Mthimkulu and Topsie Madaka disappear in Port Elizabeth during the institution of lawsuit proceedings against the Minis
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Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.
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Yusufu Lule, driven into exile by former Uganda dictator Idi Amin, is sworn in as the country’s new president.
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Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers, trade union leader active in the Garment Workers’ Union (GWU), dies in Johannesburg.
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The Bophuthatswana government rejects the South African government’s consolidation proposals.
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The appeal by the Anglican Dean, the Very Rev. Gonville Aubie ffrench-Beytagh, against his conviction and sentence under the Te
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Riots break out in the Liberian capital Monrovia over the price of rice.
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A second earthquake hits Tulbach, six months after the first one in which nine people were killed.
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Bonita Kim (Bonny) Alice, SA sculptor, is born in Johannesburg.
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Seven hundred political prisoners are released in Algeria on the orders of the French president, General Charles de Gaulle.
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In the new Republic of Cameroon hundreds of people are reported killed in rebel attacks.
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The German Fifth Panzer Army under General Gustav von Vaerst begins to evacuate from Tunis. Rommel departed on 9 March.
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Dr Zola Sidney Skweyiya, Minister of Social Development of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999, is born.
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Colin Wells Eglin, leader of the Progressive Federal Party, 1971-78, is born in Sea Point, Cape Town.
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Bambata Rebellion: The Natal government offers a reward of £500 for the capture of Bambata, dead or alive.
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S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), is born in Hebron, Pretoria. The
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The official opening of the Central Electric Station in Dock Road, Cape Town.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Comdt Jan H. Theron, Danie Theron’s successor as commander of Theron’s Scouts, dies of gastric fever in the C
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The first Boer prisoners of war arrive at St Helena, on board of the Milwaukee.
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