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In a meeting at the White House President Thabo Mbeki urges President George W. Bush to deliver more African aid support. The t
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The government announces in a White Paper plans to re-organise the administration of South-West Africa, which will give Pretori
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Caswell Sipho Makama, advisor to the minister of public works and chair of Onderstepoort Biological products as well as directo
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The so-called Adendorff trek to Banjailand (Southern Rhodesia) would have started on this day, but Pres. Paul Kruger imposed a
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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to
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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer. Colonel Bottomley warns him that unde
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger wires Pres. Steyn that only a handful of ZAR burghers are willing to continue the struggle.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under Lord Roberts enter Johannesburg as the Boers withdraw to Pretoria. The British flag is h
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lady Edward (Violet) Cecil writes to Lord Salisbury on the conditions in Bloemfontein: “Far more people have
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The South African Electricity Supply Commission (ESCOM) announces in Pretoria that it has decided to order two nuclear power st
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After joint talks with Ian Smith of Rhodesia, the Prime Minister B.J. Vorster commits South Africa to co-operative coexistence
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Louis Botha visits Johannesburg two days before British occupation and asks the residents not to resist
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WWII: North Africa. Colonel General Erwin Rommel begins his third offensive to push the British back into Egypt: Operation ‘Ven
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Zulu King Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer republics. Col. Bottomley wa
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South Africa’s Minister for Trade Mr. Trevor Manuel disclosed that South Africa had been formally invited to join the SADC.
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The Natal Mercury reports that Mr Jan Steyn, a director of Hillview Investments, announced that the company was to develop SA’s
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Anti-apartheid Afrikaners led by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, IDASA director, meet with the ANC in Frankfurt, to discuss a post-a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The peace proposals, as approved by the British Cabinet, are wired to Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener.
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Robert Moffat, of the London Missionary Society, arrives with his wife at Maruping, Northern Cape, to assist with missionary wo
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General elections in South Africa. The Herenigde Nasionale Party (Re-united National Party) comes to power in coalition with th
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Letter from the ANC Youth League (Transvaal) to the Secretary [Ruth First] of the Progressive Youth Council, 16 March 1945
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World Book and Copyright Day. By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the
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South Africa’s High Commissioner to Uganda, Bavumile Vilakazi, dies of a heart attack in Kampala. He was involved in the United
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A Group Areas Amendment Bill introduced on 7 March 1982 and enacted on 21 April, maintains the existing commitment to the princ
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Merchant Jan van Riebeeck requests in a letter to the Council of XVII (Lords 17) a salary increase and express his disappointme
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A Zimbabwe court rules that the government and police must bring an end to Black squatters’ occupations of White-owned farms.
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Government officials seal off entrances to the farm Goedgevonden where people who were removed from the land thirteen years ago
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President Mandela warns that local government elections in Kwazulu-Natal, scheduled for 29 May 1996, may have to be postponed a
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