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EventThe Transkei Constitution Act is enacted
The enactment of the Transkei Constitution Act (No 48 of 1963), which came into effect on 30 May 1963, gave partial self-government to the Transkei within the…
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Dr Victorio Carpio of the Philippines falls ill after his visit, together with Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, to the Transkei.
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Empire Day becomes Commonwealth Day.
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United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
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Egypt and Israel agree to UN observation posts along the Gaza Strip.
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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs addresses 15 000 people on the steps of the Johannesburg City Hall during a protest meeting organise
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The first volume of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal is published.
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British premier Winston Churchill says the Suez Canal will be in danger if Britain withdraws from Egypt.
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Dr Aron (Ali) Bacher, SA cricket captain and player in twelve tests, is born.
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South African Airways suspends regular commercial services because of World War II.
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The first Comrades marathon (87 km) is run by Vic Clapham and his friends who initiated it as a reunion.
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The Bulhoek massacre, during which police fire on charging ‘Israelites’, a religious sect who refuse to leave a squatters’ sett
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On a meeting, twelve days after the first one on which was decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name De Burger is decide
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Progressive Party in South Africa announces his formal opposition to the South African
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Paul Kruger settles in a villa in Clarens on lake Geneva.
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Empire Day is first celebrated. It was later renamed Commonwealth Day (24 May 1959).
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British General Sir Ian Hamilton attends General Jan Christiaan Smuts’ birthday party: "I sat between Bo
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Baden-Powell occupies Zeerust.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain annexes the Orange Free State. Lord Roberts changes the name to Orange River Colony.
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Italy reorganises her Red Sea territories as the Colony of Eritrea.
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Stephen Harry Eyssen, composer, singer and editor of the first FAK-volksangbundel, is born.
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Jan Christian Smuts, who was to become the Union of South Africa’s second prime minister, is born on the farm Bovenplaats near
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Horse racing: The Free State Turf Club is founded in Bloemfontein.
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Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric
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Lady Florence Caroline Dixie, war correspondent in the Anglo-Boer War 2 for the Morning Post, is born in London.
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Queen Victoria is born in London at Kensington Palace. As queen of the British Empire, she reigned over the colonies in Africa.
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The Dutch ships Oosterland and Waddingsveen are wrecked during a winter gale in Table Bay.
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Bartolomeu Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea. The date is given as 29 May in another source a
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Women’s International Day for Peace. (GIED: Celebrating 10 years of Freedom, 2004).
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