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Aliens Act No 1, restricting and regulating the entry of certain aliens into the Union and regulating the right of any person t
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SAA, inaugurated the previous year, takes over South-West African Airways which has since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail
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South African Airways is inaugurated and takes over the passenger and goods air services hitherto operated by Union Airways.
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Bradman made 299 vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th.
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The South African Air Force is established, the first of the Commonwealth air forces. Lt-Col. Pierre van Ryneveld is appointed
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The Tanganyika Railway is opened.
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Douglas Hall, Governor of Somaliland Protectorate, is born.
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Germany contests French rule in Morocco.
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Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town.
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Ivan Mitford-Barberton, teacher of art at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town and sculptor of several monuments in South A
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S. le Roux Marais (Stephanus), organist, teacher, pioneer of the art song (lieder) and composer of numerous songs in Afrikaans
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Harold Cressy, educationist and teacher, is born at Rorke’s Drift. He was the only Black student of the South African College (
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Hans Anton Aschenborn, German painter and graphic artist who stayed for several years in Namibia and South Africa and who illus
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A famous former primary school, the “Gedenkschool der Hugenoten”, is opened at Kleinbosch in Daljosafat, Cape.
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David Hume (66), explorer and big-game hunter, dies in Grahamstown. He came to the Cape with Benjamin Moodie’s Scotch settlers
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The territory north of the Great Berg River is annexed to the new district of Tulbagh, and declared a separate sub-drosdy with
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Louis van Assenburgh is appointed as successor to Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel at the Cape.
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Adelaide Frances Tambo (77), widow of Oliver Tambo, dies at her home in Johannesburg.
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A metrobus is hijacked in Rosettenville, Johannesburg.
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Nineteen people die and six are injured in a head on collision on the road between Standerton and Embalenhle, Mpumalanga.
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Royal sources announce Swaziland’s King Mswati III will introduce a 17-year-old schoolgirl as his 13th bride-to-be once she pas
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President Thabo Mbeki has a narrow escape in Abuja when he is nearly hit by a car shortly after the African Union heads-of-stat
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Six men are convicted in Mozambique of the November 2000 killing of investigative reporter Carlos Cardoso. The journalist was g
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A Kenyan Airplanes plane crashes into the sea off Côte d’Ivoire, killing all but ten of the 179 people on board. (Mail &
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Quintus van Rooyen (62), authority on rugby who wrote for Beeld, dies of cancer in Pretoria.
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Semi-finals versus Ghana 3-0 at the FNB Stadium, Johannesburg
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In Mogadishu, US Marines in a convoy carrying American diplomats open fire near a crowded food distribution centre. At least fi
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against the Congo in an away game.
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The United States begins reassembling a Somali national police force to patrol Mogadishu’s lawless streets.
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