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Pieter Hugo Naude (72), SA landscape and portrait painter, dies in Worcester.
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Kenneth Colin Bland, cricket player who played for South Africa in 21 test matches (1961-1967), is born in Bulawayo, Southern R
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Leonard Syer Bristowe (77), Transvaal judge, dies.
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Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon dies of an unknown disease some months after he and British archaeologist Howard Carter have discov
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Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C
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Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, is born in Lichtenburg, Tran
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Combat-General Georges-Henri Anne Marie Victor Compte de Villebois-Mareuil, a former commander in the French Foreign Legion, ma
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Start of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens.
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The Phoenix of France runs aground at Noetzie, near Knysna.
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Britain concludes Treaty of Pretoria with Boers, recognising independence of the ZAR. The Transvaal Triumvirate and a British R
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Jan van Riebeeck urged by the Vryburgers (Free Burghers), starts peace negotiations with the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi group).
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Table Mountain is sighted at 2.30 p.m. by a crewmember of the Drommedaris, the ship on which Jan van Riebeeck and his company w
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The newly formed DA-IFP "coalition of change" leaders of the parties, Tony Leon and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, hold their
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India and South Africa make a series of important agreements around a ‘strategic partnership’ pact.
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Eugene Terre ‘Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging is condemned to death seven times because he and two follower
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ANC insurgents launch a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station, Johannesburg. Pamphlets are scattered dema
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Barend Hendrik Janse van Rensburg (Ben) (80), founder of the War Museum in Bloemfontein, dies.
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Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Kata
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Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood, teacher and founder of the South African Library for the Blind, dies in Grahamstown.
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UN troops defending an airfield in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by ‘mobs’.
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Sultan Sayyidi Muhammad V ibn Yusuf arrives in northern Morocco in the hope of ending Spanish rule.
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Maxwell Mamase, MEC for Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, is born in Peddie, Eastern Cape
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Mercia Marie Isaacs, businesswoman, winner in category Medium Corporate/Medium Business Owner/NGO Lebone Woman’s Award in 1998
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De Gaulle takes complete control of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algeria and, in a promise of a power-share a
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Hugh Masekela is born near Johannesburg.
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The Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysersunie, counterpart of the South African Teachers’ Association, is founded in Cape Town.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep in Namaqualand starts as Gen. Smuts demands the surrender of the town but is curtly reject
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Cecil John Rhodes’ will bequests £6 million to fund scholarships to Oxford University for citizens of the British Empire, Unit
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. Bottomley writes a letter to King Dinizulu, ordering him to arm all his followers and to protect the Zul
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