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Theo Wendt (76), first conductor of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, first musical director of the Broadcasting Organisation a
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The Rev. Mr Josephus Johannes Kuhn, poet and versifier of the first Afrikaans Psalms, dies.
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Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys (Jannie), Chief of the South African Defence Force, 1985, and Member of the State Security Council,
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At a mass gathering in Johannesburg during the Rand Revolt, a proposal to establish a provisional republican government is acce
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World War 1: Gen. Louis Botha leaves for South West Africa to take control of the Union troops who would conquer the area from
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Herman Charles Bosman, author of among others Mafeking Road and creator of the character “Oom Schalk Lourens”, is born in Kuils
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Redvers Buller conquers Vaalkrans at the Tugela river, but shelling from both sides continues and the Br
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The Congo state is established as a personal possession of Belgium’s King Leopold II.
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Gabriel Adolf Ode is born in Schiedam, the Netherlands. Ode was the acting secretary of education in South Africa in 1891. He w
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Charles Barter, writer, magistrate and editor of The Natal Guardian, marries Emma Butler in Ireland.
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Frederich Martin Joseph Welwitsch, discoverer of the welwitschia plant in the Namib, is born in Austria.
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The 25th automated teller machine (ATM) this year is badly damaged after it is blown up in a shopping centre in Orange farm. Th
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Top finance officials from seven of the world’s richest countries (the G7 countries), open a two-day meeting in London that, wh
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Business Day announces that Deutsche Bank has taken the lead among foreign banks operating in SA by selling a 25% stake in its
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It is reported that a $650 flamethrower, invented by Charl Fourie, is available for installation on cars to protect against car
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The police in Zimbabwe start a search for William Player (64), heir to the British John Payer Tobacco Company, who disappeared
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Six men suffocate in Vereeniging after being locked up by robbers in the airtight compartment of a meat truck.
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Dave Richardson (38), South African wicket-keeper, announces his retirement from cricket after 42 test matches.
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The new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa takes effect. The Constitutional Court approved it on 4 December 1996.
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Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi of Zaire comes out of hiding to call for international military intervention to force Preside
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President F.W. de Klerk receives the Prix du Courage Politique in Paris.
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The European Community agrees to lift sanctions as soon as President F.W. de Klerk fulfils his pledge to repeal cornerstone apa
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The ANC and PAC form a joint liaison committee.
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Nine Israeli tourists and two Egyptian guards are killed and twenty tourists wounded when masked assailants open fire on a bus
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The Citizen reveals that Miss Olivia Forsyth who arrived at the British Embassy in Luanda, Angola, seeking sanctuary from the A
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South Africa’s three liberal opposition parties, the Progressive Federal Party headed by Zach de Beer, the National Democratic
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André Stander, SA bank robber is arrested by the Fort Lauderdale police for driving an unlicensed vehicle.
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President Samora Machel of Mozambique decrees an end to private ownership, and Lourenço Marques is renamed Maputo.
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Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda banns the opposition United Progressive Party and arrests its leader, Simon Kapepwe, together
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