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Rioting by Africans in Cato Manor (Durban) results in the death of nine policemen.
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South African politician and author of "Jock of the Bushveld," Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, dies at the age of 69.
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Pieter Wenning (47), well-known South African painter, dies in Pretoria.
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Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.
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The first Boy Scout troop is organised in England by Robert Baden-Powell. The Boy Scouts are active world wide, also in SA.
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Mashonaland and Matabeleland are united as Southern Rhodesia.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse, English nurse who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free Sate Republics during the South Afric
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British, under General Warren, surrenders to General Botha at Spioenkop. At least 1 000 British and sixty
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Lugard, with Maxim gun, helps pro-British Protestants defeat pro-French Catholics in Buganda civil war. Kabaka Mwanga flees.
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Capt. Kurt von Francois arrives as leader of a small German regiment in South West Africa to suppress the Herero rebellion.
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Cable communication is established between England and the Cape.
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Presley Chweneyagae, 22, star of the Oscar-winning movie Tsotsi is arrested in Pretoria on a charge of fraud after being trap
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Gabon 3-1.
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Louis Schmidt (62), ex Springbok, captain of the Northern Transvaal rugby team and the original ‘Blou Bul’ (Blue Bull), dies in
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The away game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius ends in a tie with the score 1-1.
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Sifiso Nkabinde, secretary-general of the United Democratic Movement, is shot at Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal.
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Eleven ANC supporters are shot dead at Ndaleni in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Former State President P.W. Botha appears in court in George because of his refusal to testify before the Truth and Reconciliat
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The independent Human Rights Committee (HRC) reports that 837 people have been killed in political violence in 1995 compared to
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South Africa and Angola re-establish diplomatic ties after a seventeen-year break.
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Patrick Dakuse (36) is shot dead by police after he allegedly tried to prime a hand grenade from an arms cache that he had take
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In the House of Assembly, twelve new nominated members are sworn in. They include Professor Owen Horwood, former Leader of the
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At a meeting between the Prime Minister and a liaison committee of the Coloured Representative Council (CRC), important decisio
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Prime Minister John Vorster announces that a first-ever multi-racial commission will investigate the political and socio-econom
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After a compromise is reached at a Commonwealth Conference, Britain is allowed to sell weapons to South Africa, though African
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The Weather Bureau uses a modern piece of electronic equipment, a receiver for cloud pictures from satellites, for the first ti
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Army mutinies in Kenya and Uganda is put down with British assistance.
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Dr. Verwoerd announces his plan for the granting of ‘self-rule’ to the Transkei.
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Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold, on implementation of Security Council resolution of 1
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