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Anglo-Boer War 2: The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri
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The Volksraad of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR/Transvaal Republic) resolves to declare war on Chief Sekhukhune. Presiden
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Anglo-Boer War 2: After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town.
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Melt Jacobus Brink, expert in Afrikaans literature and playwright, is born in Cape Town.
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Frederik Christiaan Ludolph Bosman, founder member of several Afrikaans cultural organisations, is born in Kuils River.
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The ZAR and Portugal signs a legal agreement on the construction of the Delagoa Bay railway line.
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Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg, president of the ZAR for seven months, is born in the Uitenhage district, Eastern Cape.
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Fifty-seven (or seventy according to another source) lives are lost when a gale in Table Bay wrecks eleven (News 24 states eigh
EventSir John Cradock, Cape governor, acting in accordance with an instruction issued by the British Colonial Secretary, issues a pr
Sir John Cradock, Cape governor, acting in accordance with an instruction issued by the British Colonial Secretary, issues a proclamation instituting a circuit…
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Sir James Hulett, SA sugar magnate, is born in England.
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Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant who resisted several Graaff-Reinet magistrates over frontier policy and was elected
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Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, is born in Rotterd
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The Free Burghers sign a petition asking Jan van Riebeeck to act against the ‘Kaapmans’ (Khoi-Khoi).
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World Telecommunication Day.
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Athletics South Africa (ASA) confirms that Hezekiel Sepeng has been reinstated for all athletics competitions with immediate ef
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’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).
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Joseph "Sepp" Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, announces in Zürich, Switzerland, that Sout
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Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.
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Judge Pieter Combrinck finds the former commanding officer of the Vlakplaas unit of the police, Dirk Coetzee, as well as Almond
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The NP accuses the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of bias and announces it will no longer co-operate with it.
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At a news conference, the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu says it is difficult
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Archaeologists discover the largest tomb ever in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. It is believed to be the resting place for the
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Aid officials report that the death toll may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against
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Jacob Matlala, SA flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) world champion title. Jacob Matlala [online] Available at
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Simon Nxumalo, Chairman of the IFP Alexandra branch is shot and killed in an assassination incident.
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The second plenary session of CODESA (CODESA II) is convened in Johannesburg. The UN delegation sent by the Secretary-General t
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President Lucas Mangope says that his government has appointed a five person cabinet committee to initiate contact with extra-p
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240 Mobil workers in the Transvaal strike in protest against Mobil’s alleged failure to negotiate with them over intended disin
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Steve Mufson, journalist for American magazine Business Week and Dutch Elseviers is expelled from the country.
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