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Cradock is proclaimed as a separate district.
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Louis Henri Meurant, pioneer of the Afrikaans language, is born in Cape Town.
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Muslims protest against the Danish Government outside the Town Hall in Cape Town in protest to the publication of cartoons in a
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SA Protea captain Graeme Smith scores his second hundred in three matches and Justin Kemp hammers a spectacular 80 off 50 balls
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News 24 reports that a delay with the awarding of a tender of billions of rands to renew Spoornet’s age-old locomotives is thre
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Hundreds of singing Ethiopians line Addis Ababa’s streets to welcome the return of a replica of the Ark of the Covenant looted
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Princess Margaret, 71, younger sister of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, who visited SA with the royal family in 1947, dies.
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Bulelani Vukwana (29) shoots and kills his girlfriend and nine others before killing himself in Mdantsane suburb of East London
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President Mbeki spells out the Government’s envisaged economic programme in his State of the Nation address.
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An Ethiopian plane bombs an Eritrean village full of homeless people, killing at least five civilians and escalating a border d
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In Cape Town the heaviest possible sentence in the South African Justice system is imposed on the Niewoudtville murder gang –
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It is announced that a special party congress has been called for in Bloemfontein at Easter by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC
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S’kumbumso Ngwenya, ANC official, is shot dead after leaving a restaurant in the centre of Pietermaritzburg.
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After two days of fighting between Islamic fundamentalists and security forces in Algeria, a state of emergency is declared.
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Oupa Gqozo, head of the Ciskei, claims to have put down the second coup attempt in the space of two weeks, with the assistance
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The Government sets up a quick reaction network of ninety-six police officers and twenty-nine ANC contact personnel to deal wit
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Kenyan Foreign Minister Robert Ouko is found slain at his family farm before he was to have presented a report on corruption. T
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The Health Ministry says carriers of Aids will be barred from entering South Africa.
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South Africa is to make its own missiles. Kentron (Pty) Ltd, a newly formed subsidiary of ARMSCOR (the South African Armaments
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Winnie Mandela, restricted to a Black township at Brandfort (Orange Free State), is sentenced to six months’ imprisonment (susp
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The Prime Ministers of South Africa and Rhodesia meet in Cape Town for talks on the Rhodesian problem and the possibilities for
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The Music Association of the Witwatersrand is founded.
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Mohammed Valli Moosa, former SA Minister of Environmental Affairs & Tourism,is born in Lenasia, Johannesburg.
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R. Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria.
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Native Resettlement Board begins moving the first Africans from Sophiatown to their new homes in Meadowlands. It is strongly co
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Walter Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the "South African Society for Peace and Friendship with the Soviet Union&qu
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World War 2: The German troops of Gen. Erwin Rommel move from Italy to North Africa.
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Abraham H. de Vries is born at Winkelplaas close to Ladismith, CP.
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Lt. Tommy Rose arrives in Cape Town from England after a flight that lasted three days, seventeen hours and thirty-eight minute
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