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Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, community leader, member of the Cape City Council (1904-1940) and Cape Provincial Council (1914-1940),
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An Afrikaans weekly publication, Die Brandwag, is published with O.E. Schwellnus as first editor. It existed until September 19
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Stan Getz, SA born USA jazz musician, is born. (Beeld, 2 Feb 2004. Vandag se verjaardae).
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The Herschel School opens in Claremont, Cape Town. It is named after Sir John Frederick William Herschel, British astronomer an
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Abba Eban (d.2002), Israeli statesman, is born in South Africa.
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Bosman de Ravelli (Jan Gysbert Hugo Bosman), concert pianist and composer of the first Afrikaans art song in 1908, is born. H
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Holland sells trading posts on African Gold Coast to Britain.
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Johannes Henricus (Jan) Brand is inaugurated as the fourth president of the Orange Free State.
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The Piet Retief Manifesto, which sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony, is published in English
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George William Stow, diamond trader and auctioneer in Kimberley and discoverer of the coalfields near Vereeniging, is born in W
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Charles Etienne Boniface, author of the first original drama published in South Africa, is born in Paris, France. In the dr
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The first wine is pressed at the Cape. Jan van Riebeeck writes in his journal that the harvest amounted to twelve “mengelen
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The Sowetan turns 25.
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Inkatha Freedom Party dismisses Dr Ben Ngubane, premier of KwaZulu-Natal, and Vincent Zulu, MEC for education.
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Rovina Petronella Pienaar, wife of the Afrikaans author Sangiro (A.A. Pienaar), is found murdered in her home in Bloemhof.
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Judge Jacob de Villiers, judge of the Appeal Court in South Africa, dies in Somerset West, Western Cape.
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An Air Senegal plane carrying European tourists crashes in Senegal, killing at least twenty people and injuring thirty.
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President De Klerk announces the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong an
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South African President F. W. de Klerk opens parliament with a speech promising the demolition of the remaining pillars of apar
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The Star reports that the South African Council of Churches rejected the order that the organisation had to declare the identit
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Rabbi Cyril K. Harris succeeds Rabbi Emeritus Bernard Casper as Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg a
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Five men are burned to death in Mdantsane, Ciskei. Mr M. Vellum escapes after already set alight with the five who died.
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The government is to establish a special Cabinet committee to look at the problems of urban Blacks.
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The Confederation of Senegambia between Senegal and the Gambia is formally launched. The federation was intended to promote coo
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The official Commission of Inquiry into the media appointed in June 1980, under the chairmanship of Justice M. Steyn, tables it
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KwaZulu proclaimed a self-governing territory.
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Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students’ Organisation, is killed by a parcel bomb near Gaborone, Botswana
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The government grants internal self-government to two further ‘homelands’, namely to Venda and Gazankulu territories.
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James Alexander Joseph Christy (66), South African cricket player in 10 tests, dies in Durban.
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