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The French explorer, Marion du Fresne, discovers Marion Island and Prince Edward Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
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Joanna van Riebeeck, daughter of Jan and Maria van Riebeeck, is born at the Cape.
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Harvesting of the first wheat planted at the Cape by Jan van Riebeeck.
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Comet McNaught, reported to be the brightest comet visible from earth in the last thirty years, is seen at its brightest in d
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Steve Tshwete, Minister of Sport and Recreation, holds talks with representatives of nine national sports organisations, urging
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Algerian government cancels second round of voting in parliamentary elections that an Islamic party looks set to win. The Islam
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Leaders of South Africa’s major sports federations agree to work towards a blanket moratorium on all contact with international
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Forty-five (thirty-five?) ANC mourners are killed during an attack on a funeral vigil for an ANC member in Sebokeng.
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SA signs a medical co-operation treaty with the government of the Republic of China, providing advanced training for medical an
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Sithembele Zokwe, detained in terms of the Transkei Public Security Act of 1977, is shot dead at his home in Nqamakwe by police
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The South African Indian Council (SAIC) decides to give the government’s constitutional proposals ‘a reasonable chance’, provid
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Joshua Polumo Mohapeloa, regarded as Lesotho’s foremost composer and choral master, dies in Maseru, Lesotho.
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A British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to investigate racial discrimination in spo
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Philemon (Duma) Pearce Dumasile Nokwe, first African advocate of the Supreme Court of Transvaal and a politician, dies.
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Gagathura (Monty) Mohambry Naicker, medical doctor and prominent politician, dies.
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North African nations of Libya and Tunisia announce agreement to merge as a new republic, the Islamic Arab Republic". The
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A notice providing for compulsory education for Indians is gazetted.
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The Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembl
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After thirty months of fighting, Biafra capitulates to Nigeria. Biafra leader General Odumegwu Ojukwu flees with his family.
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Abeid Karume, leader of the Zanzibar Afro-Shrazi Party, seizes power from the Arab dominated Zanzibar National Party and procla
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Adv. C.R. Swart is appointed as the last Governor-General of South Africa.
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Darkey Ephraim Africa, political activist and MEC Local Government, Housing & Development, North West Government since 1994
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Eileen KaNkosi-Shandu, South African educationist and leader of the Inkatha Women’s Brigade, is born.
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Daniël Hermanus (Dan) Pienaar is appointed to command the First South African Infantry Brigade.
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P.W. Botha, former state president, is born on the farm ‘Telegraaf’ in Paul Roux district, OFS.
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WWI: South African forces invade German South-West Africa at Ramansdrift.
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Several hundred mounted Herero invade Okahandja in the then German South-West Africa, setting fire to buildings and killing 123
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Prof. Matthys Stefanus Benjamin Kritzinger, Afrikaans literator and lexicographer, is born in the district of Carolina, Eastern
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War breaks out between the British and the Zulu. (Omer-Cooper: History of Southern Africa)
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