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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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Jan F.E. Celliers (Johannes Francois Elias, S.A. poet, writer and dramatist, is born. He died on 1 June 1940.
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Sir Henry Bale, chief justice of Natal and later minister of education, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
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Johan (Joan) van Arkel (26), first resident clergyman at the Cape, dies four months after his arrival.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Gideon Nieuwoudt, former police officer, for the death of Steve Biko
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An armed gang attacks two villages outside Algiers, Algeria, slaughtering 120 people.
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The away game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Zambia ends in a tie with no goals scored.
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First Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki announces the establishment of an independent judicial inquiry to investigate alle
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Paul Simon starts his tour in South Africa.
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The United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid launches the International Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against So
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Birth of the Rosenkowitz sextuplet in Cape Town, the first in the world where all six babies survive.
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The Treaty on the Prohibition of the Emplacement of Nuclear Weapons and Other Weapons of Mass Destruction on the Sea-bed and th
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The 32-month-old secessionist Biafran regime collapses under onslaughts by Nigerian military.
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Sisulu attends a secret meeting at the house of George Xarile together with F. Van Rensburg (a shift boss from Vlakfontein mine
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The South African rugby team scores 9 tries and beats France in Bordeaux 38-5.
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A devastating storm hits Pretoria – five inches of rain falls within four hours and the Apies River flows 100m wide.
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Samuel Maharero orders all Ovaherero chiefs to take up arms against the Germans. He orders them to "refrain from touching
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1,000 dervishes are massacred by British troops in Somaliland
1,000 dervishes are massacred by British troops in Somaliland.
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Alan Paton, author of Cry the Beloved Country, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
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British invade Zululand in three columns. Date is given as 10 January in another source.
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