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Riotous Assemblies (Amendment) Act No 19 commences
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Die Landbouweekblad is published for the first time by Nasionale Pers in Cape Town.
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Sir Julius Charles Wernher (62), SA financier and mine magnate, dies in London.
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The corner stone of the new railway station in Pretoria is laid.
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Louis Botha is to be the Union of South Africa’s first prime minister. Herbert Gladstone, governor-general, asks him to const
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The first contingent of Chinese labourers leaves China for the Witwatersrand gold mines.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The proposed peace proposals agreed on by a commission of five, Botha, De la Rey, De Wet and Hertzog, with Ki
EventDinizulu succeeds his father, Cetshwayo, as King of the Zulus.
King Dinizulu was the son of Chief Cetshwayo who reigned over Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) from 1872. Dinizulu was recognized as the legitimate heir and…
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The Rev. Erasmus Smit ordains himself as minister of the “reizende gemeente der Gereformeerde Kerk naar Port Natal” (travelling
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Du Prè Alexander, Earl of Caledon arrives in the Cape as SA’s first civilian governor. He instituted circuit courts in 1811.
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Nine ships are wrecked in a gale in Table Bay. 208 lives are lost.
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World Day for Cultural Development
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Four people are seriously injured after being thrown off moving trains on the East Rand. A number of people have been thrown fr
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Four people are seriously injured after being thrown off moving trains on the East Rand. A number of people have been thrown fr
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Athletics South Africa announces that South Africa’s former Olympic 800m silver medallist Hezekiel Sepeng is banned from all co
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team led by Lucas Radebe playing his 44th game as captain, loses 1-2 against England in Durban. It
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team led by Lucas Radebe playing his 44th game as captain, loses 1-2 against England in Durban. It
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Former South African Defence Force (SADF) Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted on all charges related to the 1987 KwaMakhuthu m
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Rwandan rebels seize the key government army barracks in Kigali, removing the biggest obstacle in their drive to capture the ca
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Rwandan rebels seize the key government army barracks in Kigali, removing the biggest obstacle in their drive to capture the ca
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Tony Leon, MP for Houghton, replaces Dr Zac de Beer of the Democratic Party as leader of the party.
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Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie
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Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie
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The chief of MK in Natal, Theophilus Dlodlo, and Nomsa Msomi are shot and killed, and Candy Ntshonsho is injured in the car in
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The chief of MK in Natal, Theophilus Dlodlo, and Nomsa Msomi are shot and killed, and Candy Ntshonsho is injured in the car in
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In a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament it is unanimously agreed to re-entrench the language rights in the constitution
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White-ruled African nation of Rhodesia, now known as Zimbabwe, is expelled from Olympics because of its racial policies.
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Sarah Goldblatt, curator of the literary heritage of C.J. Langenhoven, dies in Bellville, Cape Town.
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Sarah Goldblatt, curator of the literary heritage of C.J. Langenhoven, dies in Bellville, Cape Town.
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