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The first extra mural classes at the Goudstadse Onderwyskollege (Goudstad College of Education) commence.
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Walter Sisulu addresses an African National Congress meeting in Durban and gives a comprehensive account of his travel through
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C.W.H. Kohler, first chairman of the KWV, dies in Vishoek, CP one day before his 90th birthday.
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Britain’s King George VI dies and is succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. Her husband, Prince Philip, informs her of his de
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Prof. Willem Sybrand Logeman (81), important role player in the founding of the library of the University of Cape Town, dies.
EventPatrick Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal.
Patrick Ramaano Mphephu, Venda chief and former prime minister of the Venda homeland, is born in Dzini, Transvaal.
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Arthur Wellesley Briscoe, SA cricket player in 3 test matches, is born in Johannesburg.
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Belgian aviator Albert Kimmerling gives a successful flying display in Johannesburg, an event marking the start of serious avia
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French agreement with Ethiopia to finance railway construction provokes protests from Britain and Italy.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Chrissiesmeer (Lake Chrissie) takes place.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Vaalkrans (Vaalkrantz) continues.
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William Ayliff is appointed minister of “Bantu Affairs” in the Cape Colony in the first cabinet of Sir John Gordon Sprigg. He h
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Sir Gordon Sprigg forms his first ministry in the Cape at the request of the governor, Sir Bartle Frere.
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At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants
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Zulu king Dingane signs the treaty drafted by Retief on February 4 in which he declares his approval to grant an extensive area
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Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, later mi
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The “Vryburgers” proclaim the Republic of Graaff-Reinet.
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Belgian Foreign Minister Louis Michel apologises for his country’s role in the 1961 assassination of then-Congolese leader Patr
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Jean van der Poel, eminent historian and teacher who researched on the life of General Smuts, is born in Cape Town.
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Drunken British soldiers desecrate and destroy the “Taalmonument” in Burgersdorp, erected to commemorate legislation passed in
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Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers, lexicographer, educationist and author, is born on the farm Saxenburg, near Kuils River, Ste
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Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent opera, Aida, has its world premier in Cairo, Egypt. The composer was commissioned to write the op
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The name of the town Victoria in the Karoo is changed to Victoria West.
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Carl Gottlieb Büttner, Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, is born in Königsberg,
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Pieter Johannes (Piet) Potgieter, second son and sixth child of Andries Hendrik Potgieter and in 1853 elected chief commandant
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The three ships, Drommedaris, Reijger and Goede Hoop, carrying Jan van Riebeeck and his party, leave Texel, the Netherlands, on
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Vasco da Gama, Portuguese discoverer who discovered a sea route from Europe to Asia around Africa, dies on his final voyage to
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Twenty-three people die in a crash between an overloaded bus and a lorry near Matjiesfontein, Karoo.
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The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, to which SA is a party, is signed in Montego Bay.
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