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Mbhazima Samuel Shilowa, premier of Gauteng since 15 June 1999, is born in Olifantshoek, a village in the Northern Province.
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Egypt opens the Suez Canal again after Pres. Nasser has nationalised it the previous year.
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As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe
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Victor Herman Booysen, Group Executive of Human Resource Services, Telkom, is born.
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Dumisani Dludla, trade unionist and General Secretary of the United Workers’ Union of SA (UWUSA), is born in Melmoth, Natal.
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The Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is lost to the Italians.
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Josiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as African National Congress president. Luthuli commented later: with his as
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Dot Serfontein, SA author and mother of poet Antjie Krog, is born.
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Daniël Jacobus Erasmus (83), former acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Nov. 1871-July 1972), dies in B
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St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: An official report states that British columns have completely or partially destroyed 158 farms and an unknow
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres
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Cecil John Rhodes asks for a charter for the British South Africa Company.
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France invades Tunisia from Algeria on a pretext, and later establishes a protectorate.
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Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, commissioner-general at the Cape after whom the town Uitenhage was named, is born in the Nethe
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Heavy fighting between rival factions sends civilians fleeing for shelter again as a ten-day-old truce collapses in Monrovia, L
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Mbulelo Botile, SA bantamweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world champion title.
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An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.
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SA signs agreement upgrading existing diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.
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SA signs joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations with Cameroon.
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First ever multi-racial elections held in South Africa ends, with the ANC receiving 62.6% of the votes and the National Party 2
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Alinah Smith (52), mother of an ANC Youth League Official, is killed when a hand grenade explodes in her house.
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Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori
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Following a spate of court actions involving alleged assaults, tortures in detention and other irregularities, the KwaNdebele L
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IBM shareholders in Washington vote against a resolution calling on the company to sever all commercial ties with South Africa.
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The elections result in the return to power, with a slightly reduced majority, of the National Party and notable gains for the
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Hundreds of Coloured school children are arrested in Johannesburg in terms of the Riotous Assemblies Act during a student-polic
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Marimuthu Pragalathan Naiker, journalist and politician born in Durban in 1920, dies in an aeroplane during a flight between Lo
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Prime Minister B.J. Vorster indicates that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves, once t
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