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Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Koedoesberg is fought.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces, under Buller, are defeated by the Boers under Botha at the end of the three-day battle of Vaa
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George Walker discovers gold while laying the foundations for a house on the Witwatersrand.
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Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.
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Flooding along the Cape frontier near Peddie causes extensive damage.
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Paul Roux, preacher and teacher of the French Huguenot community at Drakenstein after the Rev. Pierre Simond had left in 1702,
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In an open letter to the government, financial services group PSG comes out in support of First National Bank’s (FNB) aborted c
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In a meeting between Pres. Mbeki and Pres. Hu Jintao of China in the Union Buildings, Pretoria, the two leaders agree to intens
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The African Union says the military in Togo has conducted a virtual coup by ignoring the constitution and appointing the son of
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Athanase Seromba, a Roman Catholic priest accused of participating in the 1994 slaughter of Tutsi by ethnic Hutu in Rwanda, sur
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, beats Ghana 1-0.
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Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police
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Togo holds its first multiparty election for parliament.
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Twelve people, nine women and three children, are killed in a pre-dawn attack by a group of unknown people in Masunkazane, Rich
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National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana, says that the NPKF will probably not be ready to keep the pea
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SA signs bilateral air transport agreement with Burundi.
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Three days of clashes between Islamist protesters and security forces kill twelve and injures dozens in Batna, Algeria.
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Ten French aid workers, kidnapped thirteen days earlier from a Somali refugee camp, are handed over to Ethiopian authorities by
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George Shabangu of KwaNdebele disappears, allegedly escaping from police custody while pointing out an arms cache in the veld.
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The government withdraws three controversial Parliamentary Bills, relating to freedom of movement of the Black population, for
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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that the ‘72-hour curfew’ will be lifted on a trial b
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The Prime Minister explains that administrative rationalisation is to be implemented in four states, and announces that the Dep
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In reply to the opposition’s motion Prime Minister P.W. Botha offers to resign if opposition politicians can show that either h
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Chad breaks links to Libya in protest to their support of Muslim guerrillas currently fighting in northern Chad.
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Rhodesian security forces launch a full-scale search for a gang, which massacred seven White Roman Catholic missionaries three
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Israelis sink a 700-ton Egyptian minelayer in the Gulf of Suez in reprisal for the sinking of two Israeli ships at Elath.
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The Prime Minister announces that all Coloured people will be removed from the common voters’ roll.
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Apartheid is to be tightened up at the Pretoria Zoo after a complaint from a visitor that the zoo was ‘over-run with Blacks’ on
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Prof. Otto Reinecke (75), SA fruit expert, dies in Pretoria.
EventRev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
Rev. Robert Selby Taylor was born in the United Kingdom in 1909. His parents later sent him to New Zealand in the hope of broadening his experience. Taylor…