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The United States and Somalia sign an agreement giving US naval and air forces access to military facilities in the East Africa
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Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo,
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In response to a car bomb attack in Pretoria which killed nineteen people, the South African air force bombs ANC bases in a Map
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Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of adventure books (i.e. King Solomon’s Mines) who worked in SA for several years, dies in Lond
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Sir George Napier annexes Natal for Britain. It became a district of the Cape Colony on 31 May 1844. (Muller: 500 Years: a hist
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Death of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Famous for his 1,500-mile safari into Central Africa in 1871 to find Dr Livingstone.
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Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, acting governor of the Cape who supervised the arrival and settling of the British Settlers and who fou
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Mary Bailey, wife of the SA magnate Sir Abe Bailey, lands on Swartkops airfield, Pretoria, and leaves again for London, to beco
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Sir John George Fraser, SA statesman and private secretary of Pres. J.H. Brand of the OFS, is born in Beaufort West, Karoo.
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William Ayliff is appointed minister of “Bantu Affairs” in the Cape Colony in the first cabinet of Sir John Gordon Sprigg. He h
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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of t
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Natal Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of the I
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Pretoria News reports the South African Air Force celebrated its 84th anniversary at Bay’s Hill the previous day with the launc
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Anglo-Boer War 1: The British forces are defeated and 83 British soldiers under Sir George Colley are killed and 111 wounded in
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee. Albert…
BiographyKrishna Rabilal
Krishna Rabilal was born on 6 November 1952 to working class parents in the township of Merebank, south of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). A quiet…