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Spain and France begin talks on their respective ‘sphere of influence’ in Morocco.
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Dirk Meerkotter, SA painter and potter, is born in Pietersburg, Tvl.
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General Jan Christian Smuts is appointed commander of UK and South African troops in the East African campaign of World War I.
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The Cape Corps, consisting of thirty-two officers and 1022 soldiers, leaves for East Africa during the First World War.
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France and Germany reach agreement over Morocco, with Germany recognising French special interests there in return for economic
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Bambata Rebellion: Natal Governor Sir Henry McCallum proclaims martial law. Some 1 000 men are mobilised under command of Col D
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Anglo-Boer War 2: George Frederick Labram, mechanical engineer who built ‘Long Cecil’ for the defence of Kimberley during the s
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Menelek, Emperor of Ethiopia, denounces Italian claims to a protectorate.
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William Cock (82), British settler who wanted to build a harbour at Port Alfred, dies in Grahamstown.
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Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb
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Daniel Lindley, an American Presbyterian clergyman, is formally ordained as minister of the Voortrekkers’ Pietermaritzburg cong
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Jameson raid into Transvaal, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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In a communiqué issued today, the African Union’s peace and security council lays out the responsibilities of a peace mi
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The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i
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Worms squirming on a fishhook feel no pain nor do crayfish and crabs cooked in boiling water, a scientific study funded by the
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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Angola ends in a tie with no goals scored.
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South Africa radio reports that C. Barnard and A.K. Myburgh have been sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment each for their par
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ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela says the European Community should retain sanctions against South Africa and warns of mass
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Mthunzi Njakazi, ANC member of Durban, is shot dead on street. This date may not be correct, as 28 January 1991 is given by tw
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The Commonwealth Committee on Southern Africa, after a three-day meeting in Harare, decides to seek ways to strengthen financia
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A number of women call on the government at a press conference to permit those men who refuse to serve in the army to make thei
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Natal is placed on flood alert as torrential rains lash the province.
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Mozambique stresses its continued support for the ANC in a statement made at the funeral of twelve ANC members killed in the So
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The Minister of Justice, P.C. Pelser, discloses in Parliament that during 1973 the government for political reasons banned a to
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The Prime Minister warns that the government will not hesitate to intervene, should campaigns by City Councils led by Johannesb
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The leader of the South African opposition, Sir de Villiers Graaff, agrees with the government that the composition of the prop
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The government publishes the draft of the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill intended to remove most of the remaining rights of Africans
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SA signs a most-favourednation trade agreement with Spain.
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Gen. J.C. Smuts is elected as premier in the fourth general election of the Union of South Africa. Burne: Chronicle of the Wo
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