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Following the arrest of Jomo Kenyatta and over a thousand Mau Mau suspects the previous month, the Mau Mau carry out their bigg
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Mario Constant Sickle, S.A sculptor, is born in Cape Town.
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Gen. Douglas MacArthur is appointed commander of the United Nations (UN) forces in Korea, including South Africans.
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WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet launches Op
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The Cape Corps, consisting of Cape Coloured men, is reformed under Col. C.N. Hoy.
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Nelie Smith, SA rugby captain, is born.
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Prof. Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu, SA ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and former SA Minister of Education
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Afrikaans becomes one of the official languages of the Union of South Africa following the introduction and passing of a bill b
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US Marines land at Tangier, Morocco, to provide protection to the Belgian Legation.
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Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, SA sculptor is born in Plungian, Lithuania. His father emigrated to SA in 1904 and was joined
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A combined force of British soldiers and armed Blacks attempts to surround General C.H. Muller’s commando, commanded in his abs
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Inhabitants of the Congo are prohibited to collect ivory and rubber, unless for the state.
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Tielman Roos, politician and cabinet minister, is born in Cape Town.
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John Thomas Baines (54), SA painter, dies in Durban.
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William Archer Way, SA educationist, is born in Devon, England.
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James Read, controversial missionary of the London Mission Society, dies at Elands Post.
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David George Anosi (77), businessman, dies in Cape Town.
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World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day.
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Ms Stella Sigcau, Xhosa princess, third premier of Transkei for three months and minister of Public Works, dies of heart failur
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Former President Nelson Mandela invites the Protea cricket team to his Houghton home to congratulate them on their excellent pe
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Rebels in Sierra Leone use civilians as shields while fighting UN forces.
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SA rugby is plunged into a crisis because Louis Luyt refuses to resign as president of the South African Rugby Football Union.
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Mobutu Sese Seko, Zaire’s 66-year old dictator flies to Gabon to attend a regional leaders’ meeting, denying that he was fleein
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Former Defence Minister Magnus Malan takes full responsibility for secret apartheid raids into neighbouring countries but says
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F.W. de Klerk disbands the NP task team, headed by Roelf Meyer,
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Only a few hours before the expiry of the deadline for the production of the final document, and after a period of intense nego
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Legislators in Johannesburg take oaths of office and Blacks and Whites sit down together for the first time to govern South Afr
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The ‘Afrikaner Volksfront’ is founded with Gen. Constant Viljoen as leader.
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Twenty-three of the twenty-six parties involved in the Multi-Party Talks at the World Trade Centre, adopt a Declaration of Inte
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