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The new British Ambassador to South Africa, Sir John Nicholls, presents his credentials to the State President.
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General Joseph Mobutu, later known as Mobutu Sese Seko, deposes President Joseph Kasavubu in the Congo.
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Geoffrey Hlabangane, chief executive officer and director of New Seasons Resources, Johannesburg, since 1999, is born in Middel
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Sir Ernest Oppenheimer (77), financier, mining and industrial magnate who founded the Anglo American Corporation and politician
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British, French and Zionist residents are ordered out of Egypt.
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Stanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist who built an art gallery in Katlehong in 1982, is born in Newcastle, Natal. (Johannesburg Art
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General Jan Smuts, SA premier, makes a notable speech to members of the British parliament, suggesting that the responsibility
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Pieter John Philander, SA poet, is born in Caledon, CP.
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Police in Natal open fire on people demonstrating against the imprisonment of Mohandas Gandhi, killing two and wounding twenty-
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Three Kgatla-Tswana regiments, armed by the British, attack a burgher laager at Derdepoort, east of Gaberones
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Enslin or Graspan takes place, with the burghers under General De la Rey and Commandant Lubbe
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Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm Grosskopf, author, newspaper editor and professor at the University of Stellenbosch, is born in Bloe
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Nicholas Edward Brown (85), expert on SA plants, dies in Surrey, England. He never visited SA because of poor health.
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Andries Pretorius is appointed Commandant-General of the Voortrekkers, to lead a commando two days later against the Zulu.
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British forces capture Senegal.
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Vasco da Gama, on his way to the East, lands near present Mossel Bay, staying for a week. Aucklandpark: Federasie van Afri
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International Day of Violence Against Women.
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Nigerian police fire tear gas to quell a riot, which erupts after officers shot dead a bus driver who refused to pay a bribe. F
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South African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberia’s Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa’s first elected
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SABC reports that to celebrate its 75th anniversary, the Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging (ATKV) (Afrikaans Language and Cul
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President Thabo Mbeki and the minister of justice are facing a R550 000 civil damages claim after a convicted murderer kil
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Sara van Rooyen, 25, the woman suspected of swindling her friend’s R23.7m Lotto winnings is being held in police custody after
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Mr Slo Ramokhoase becomes Pretoria’s first Black mayor.
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SA signs agreement with the Nederlandsche Financierings Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V.
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Dr Lindiwe Mbambo, wife of an ANC official and member of Watville Concerned Residents Committee, is shot dead by gunmen at home
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A group of ultra right Whites storm 300 Black children in a park in Louis Trichardt, northern Transvaal.
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South Africa’s Pan-Africanist Congress announces it will join with the African National Congress in opposing the White-led gove
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President F. W. de Klerk announces the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement.
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The Conservative Party (CP) controlled Boksburg Town Council agrees by twelve votes to seven to close Boksburg Lake, municipal
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