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Faizelf Ismael, chief director Export and Investment Promotion, Dept of Trade and Industry, and former Black student leader and
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Christopher Nceba Faku, political activist and prisoner and mayor of Port Elizabeth for several terms, is born in New Brighton,
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Kwame Nkrumah wins the first parliamentary election on the Gold Coast (Ghana).
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During the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference held in Cape Town, a deputation of sixty Indians calls on the Prime
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The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube (Mafukuzela), politician and founder and first editor of the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal
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League of Nations debates the border dispute between Italy and Ethiopia, whilst Mussolini prepares to ship out 35,000 troops to
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The second British offensive begins with a British invasion of the Orange Free State when almost 50,000 men a
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Jeremy Schulman, South African violinist and conductor, is born.
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Daniel Johannes Smal, reciter, producer of oneman shows and champion for the founding of a school for drama in Pretoria, is bor
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Ndebele (Matabele) King Lobengula accepts British protection and the British South Africa Company imposes protectorate over Nd
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J. van Melle (Johannes), author of inter alia “Bart Nel”, is born in Goes, the Netherlands.
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The Nepaul, a British ship of 462 ton, runs aground while leaving Swartvlei Bay on the Cape coast. Three sailors die.
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Gov. Simon van der Stel is succeeded by his son, Willem Adriaan.
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Governor Isbrand Goske dispatches an expedition to Hottentots Holland to decide whether the district is suitable for permanent
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The monetary policy committee (MPC) leaves interest rates unchanged, but altered its public stance towards the vagaries of the
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Masibulela Hawk Makepula, SA junior flyweight champion, wins the world champion title of the World Boxing Organisation in that
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 0-2 against Nigeria.
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Four people die when a MI-8 MTV helicopter crashes on a building in Cape Town after the tail end had caught an advertising boar
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Anna Cloete (82), veteran actress and wife of James Norval, famous in SA acting circles, dies.
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President Mandela discloses that he has invited Cuban President Fidel Castro to South Africa. This move elicits expressions of
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Six million people in Madagascar vote in elections that topple President Didier Ratsiraka after seventeen years in office.
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Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says more than seventeen million people were arrested under influx control laws between
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The Auditor-General’s report for the financial year 1989/90 reveals multi-million rand frauds and irregularities in the film in
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Eighteen IFP supporters are killed in Taylor’s Halt by unknown attackers.
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Pres. F.W. de Klerk announces that Nelson Mandela will be released unconditionally from the Victor Verster prison in Paarl at 3
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The Citizen reports that an alleged member of the SADF, Isaiah Moyo, was convicted in Lusaka, Zambia, on three counts of espion
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Pearl Tshabalala, UDF member of Clermont, Durban, is shot dead.
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Students at the University of Bophuthatswana celebrate the coup to topple Bophuthatswana’s president, Lucas Mangope, taking ove
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South Africa sends troops to Bophuthatswana to reinstate Lucas Mangope who was ousted by local defence force members on charge
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A faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force, led by Rocky Malebana Metsing, attempts to overthrow the government of Chief Lucas Manyane Mangope.
A faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force, led by Rocky Malebana Metsing, attempts to overthrow the government of Chief Lucas Manyane Mangope, who is held…