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Leonard Malatsi Kalane, past editor of several newspapers and current executive director of Rapport & City Press Media in J
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Sudan joins Arab League as ninth member.
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A government commission is appointed to inquire into and report on all aspects of native education.
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Kassala, on the Sudan-Eritrean border, is retaken by the British as Major General William Platt begins an offensive against Ita
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WW2: The 1st SA Division enters Abyssinia from the south.
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Barend J. du Plessis, former South African minister of finance, is born in Johannesburg.
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General J.B.M. Hertzog, as leader of the Opposition, announces he will introduce a motion calling on the Union of South Africa
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The Teachers’ Training College in Oudtshoorn becomes an independent institution.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A cannon, known as ‘Long Cecil’, and named after Cecil John Rhodes, is fired for the first time at Boer force
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Mafeking siege: Gen. J.P. Snyman sends a starving group of Black women, who have been encouraged by the Briti
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The Huguenot Seminary, well-known school for girls, opens in Wellington, CC.
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The Cape becomes British territory for the second time, when conditions of surrender at Blaauberg (11 days previously), is conf
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Anton Rupert, industrial giant of South Africa and founder of the Rembrandt group, dies at the age of 89 in Stellenbosch.
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President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is assassinated by a member of his bodyguard.
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South Africa beats the West Indian Cricket team with 346 runs on Centurion Park, Pretoria, and wins thereby the series 5-0. Jac
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Heated discussion occurs at a cabinet meeting and President Mandela casts doubt on the commitment of second Deputy President F.
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President P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
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Troops in the Central African Republic suppress a youth led riot against the imposition of school uniforms.
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The KwaZulu government issues a document signed by all six Executive Councillors inviting the South African government to test
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The Lesotho government invites all South African political refugees to make formal application to leave the country, to indicat
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It is reported in New York that a fierce attack on South Africa’s apartheid policies and its control of South-West Africa has b
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Sir Evelyn Baring, Governor of Kenya, imposes a death penalty for all those who organise the taking of the Mau Mau oath.
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Dr Andrew Murray, noted South African clergyman and educationist, dies in Wellington at the age of 88.
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The German battleship "Habicht" lands at Swakopmund, bringing fresh German troops who proceed into the interior under
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Comdt Gideon Scheepers is executed by a firing squad near Graaff-Reinet after being found guilty by a British military court on
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Mafeking siege: Two Black cattle-herds are captured and summarily executed at Mafeking by burghers, in acco
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Janssens, governor of the Cape, capitulates with the last of the defending force, after which the second British occupation of
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Death of Abraham Josias Sluysken (62), commander at the Cape.
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Jan van Riebeeck (57) dies in Batavia.
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