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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): A provisional armistice between the Generals Wood and Joubert is agreed on an
EventAfter being allowed into the racially exclusive SA Amateur Athletics Union, Matthews Motshwarateu, breaks the national 5,000m record
Black athlete Matthews Motshwarateu, recently allowed into the racially exclusive SA Amatuer Athletics Union, breaks the national 5 000m record in Stellenbosch…
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
On 30 July 1987, a car bomb was detonated outside the headquarters of Witwatersrand Command army base in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. The attack was executed…
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
An application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails. In 1998 South Africa's…
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
In the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), Britain annexed the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, two hitherto independent Afrikaner…
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Extract of an address given to the Transvaal United African Teachers Association by CF Beyers Naude during May, 1997
This article covers two issues, wide ranging influence of christianity in the history of South Africa and christianity in South Africa.
ArchiveAnother harvest?: is this how you want to be judged, as an Anglican, by fellow christian brothers and sisters?
White poster with blue and occasional red lettering. Anglican Church poster. Artwork of the Grim Reaper, carrying a sword with words 'Lusaka Statement' on it…
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Amanda Coetzer, SA tennis star and winner of several Sportswoman of the Year Awards, is born in Hoopstad, OFS.
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The Canadian Minister for External Affairs announces that the government has imposed an embargo on further sales or shipments o
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Doctors at Barangwanath Hospital complete the first stage of an operation to separate Siamese twins Mpho and Mphoyana Mathibela
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Andrew Geddes Bain, a pioneer SA geologist, road engineer, explorer and writer, dies in Cape Town. He constructed Bain’s Kloof
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The Foreign Minister hands over a seventy-six room presidential palace, which cost an estimated R1 .8 m. to build, to Transkei
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Former SA President Nelson Mandela begins his first visit to Israel, a gesture of final reconciliation with a nation that had b
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An Egyptian passenger cruiser carrying more than 1 300 Muslim pilgrims collides with a cargo ship at the Suez Canal’s sout
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William Waldegrave Palmer Selbourne, British high commissioner in SA after Lord Milner, and governor of the Transvaal and Orang
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Sydney Charles Buxton (80), British statesman and second governor-general of the Union of SA, dies in Sussex, England.
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SA signs multilateral agreement on the additional act of 1972, amending the International Convention for the Protection of New
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Anthony (Tony) Nkotsi, SA artist and currently (1988) head of the Printmaking Department at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, is
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An urgent resolution is considered by the United Nations Political Committee condemning the government of South Africa for its
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Chief Leabua Jonathan, Prime Minister of Lesotho, warns that violent confrontation between Blacks and Whites will be an inevita
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Hermann Böhle, SA electro-technical engineer and first professor in electro-technics at the South African College in Cape
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The SA rugby team wins its first match in the World Cup tournament against Scotland in Edinburgh 46-29.
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Harold (Ralph) Henning, SA golf player, is born in Johannesburg. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human &a
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Harold (Ralph) Henning, SA golf player, is born in Johannesburg. Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human &a
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Hymne Weiss, SA author and translator of books into Afrikaans from six European languages, is born in Rouxville, OFS.
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Inkatha agrees to return to the Constitutional Assembly, after an eighteen-month absence, but withdraws again on 7 October 1996
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Cornelis Broeksma, an attorney from Holland, is executed as a traitor by firing squad at the Johannesburg Fort. Information abo
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South Africa calls for an urgent solution to the row over Iran’s nuclear programme following a meeting in Johannesburg between
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Nineteen hostel residents die in Sebokeng in an attempted hostel takeover allegedly by IFP vigilantes, while another eleven die
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