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Egypt is allowed back into the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Counties (OPEC) after a ten-year exile.
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The mayor of Welkom in the Free State is tarred and feathered after officiating at a multi-racial wheelchair marathon.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha and Defence Minister Magnus Malan hold talks in Brazzaville, Congo, with an Angolan delegati
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The Smithsonian Institute, curator of the United States’ most important museum system, decides to sell all its holdings, worth
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After an eleven-week ordeal, sixteen Britons are finally released by Angolan rebels.
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S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Kathlehong. The Sekano N
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Colonel Muammar Kadhaffi, premier of Libya, predicts the use of oil trading restrictions as a form of Arab nationalistic protec
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Ninety-one people are arrested in Egypt as part of a purge of opposition to President Anwar el-Sadat
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The Minister of Justice announces that the former Pan-Africanist Congress leader, Robert M. Sobukwe, has been released from det
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The Official Secrets Act Amendment Bill is passed. It is designed to prevent the publication of information, which would hamper
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The SA rugby team beats Ireland in Newlands, Cape Town, 24-8.
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With Patrice Lumumba (Congolese nationalist) still under arrest, fighting has broken out between rival Congolese tribes in the
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Elizabeth Dipuo Peters, Premier of the Northern Cape Province since 22 April 2004, is born.
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French nationalists in Algeria rebel: 40,000 French settlers have demonstrated against a proposal by Pierre Pfimlin, the French
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Prof. Nicolaas Johannes Brümmer (80), SA professor, cultural leader, author and minister, dies.
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WWII: The Italian commander-in-chief in Tunisia surrenders a day after his German counterpart, with the Allies holding some 250
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Trans-African auto expedition between Brussels and Cape Town starts.
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Lord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, dies in Canterbury, England.
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WWI: General Louis Botha, leading the South African troops, enters undefended Windhoek, capital of German South West Africa, an
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Following the proclamation of Abd al-Aziz as Sultan of Morocco, French and British citizens have been attacked by rebel tribesm
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British prime minister, the Marquis of Salisbury, states that Britain’s successes in the South African ca
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Paulus Johannes Hartogh, the first baby to be born on the Witwatersrand, is born in Ferreiraskamp.
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The district of Albert (Burgersdorp), submits a petition to parliament in which the use of Dutch, jointly with English, is requ
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
Sir Ronald Ross the discoverer of the malaria mosquito was born in Almora, India in 1857. After graduating in medicine, he entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital…
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King Hintsa ka Phalo of the Xhosa nation is killed by British troops. Another source alleges that he was shot dead by a c
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France abandons Goree, West Africa, to Britain.
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The Bulls beat the Sharks on Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria in a Super 14 semi-final game. For the first time in history two South A
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, beats Madagascar 1-0 in a home game.
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Ignoring international pleas to end their two-year border conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea return to open war with fighting repor
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