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Fourteen White Natal policemen under Sub-Inspector Hunt ride out to arrest the culprits who threatened divisional magistrate T.
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Sannie Uys, author and mother of Uys and Francois Krige, is born near Swellendam, CC.
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Cetewayo (Cetshwayo), cousin of Chaka and the last king of independent Zululand, dies in Eshowe.
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): The Battle of Ingogo Heights, near Schuinshoogte (also called the Battle of
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Marthinus Wessel Pretorius is elected president of the Orange Free State.
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The district of Colesberg is proclaimed.
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The Voortrekkers elect the first church council of the independent “Voortrekkerkerk”, with Sarel Cilliers as one of the deacons
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A newspaper in Mozambique reports that hurricanes and floods in the past two weeks have caused twenty-nine deaths, total destru
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An official statement in Lagos announces that twelve people, including four local politicians, were killed in an attack over a
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Fake versions of the new South African banknotes have hit the streets barely a week after the latest currency was released by t
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Days after the murder of professor Brian Hahn, another UCT academic Dr Lisbe Smuts-Smith, 47, is murdered in cold blood at her
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Martin Schönteich, senior legal official at the Open Society Justice Initiative in New York, says at the opening of a nati
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South Africa beats the West Indies with 50 runs in the seventh one-day cricket match at Centurion Park, to clinch the series 6-
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A Swiss police officer is convicted of passing lists of suspected Islamic militants to Algerian authorities. At least four peop
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Freedom Front leader General Constand Viljoen has announced he will seek amnesty before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
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Ramzi Yousef, the alleged mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing in New York, is arrested in Islamabad, Pakistan. Th
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South Africa signs an agreement with the government of the Republic of Poland on the abolition of visa requirements for holders
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Winnington Sabelo, IFP Central Committee member and KwaZulu MP, is gunned down at his shop in Umlazi, Natal.
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Top officials from the ANC, Azapo, the PAC and Inkatha appear at a joint rally to appeal for warring factions in Bekkersdal to
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US civil rights leader, the Rev Jesse Jackson, arrives in South Africa.
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Up to this date fourteen people have been killed in escalating violence in Venda sparked by allegations of ritual killings and
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In the speech announcing the unbanning of political organisations, Gen. Holomisa also announces the release of the following si
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Gen. Bantu Holomisa announces the unbanning of the ANC, PAC, South African Communist Party, South African Students’ Organisatio
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The South African Department of Home Affairs refuses to grant Breyten Breytenbach a visa to receive an honorary doctorate from
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Dr. Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, leader of the opposition PFP, resigns from parliamentary politics because he said Parliament is
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Cedric Mayson, former Methodist Minister, banned for five years in 1977 and detained on 27 November 1981, appears before the Pr
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Transkei announces it is re-establishing diplomatic relations with South Africa because South Africa is now willing to negotiat
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Figures released by the South African Institute of Race Relations indicate a fall of twenty per cent in political trials in 197
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Nigerian planes bomb and strafe a crowded market in a village in rebellious Biafra, killing more than 200 people.
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