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Senator F.S. Malan (69), editor of the early Afrikaans publications Die Afrikaanse Patriot and Ons Land, dies.
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E.S.J. van Graan, his son and three friends scale the flat-topped sandstone hill on the farm Greefswald, Messina (now Musina) d
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Lieutenant-Colonel Manie Bredell retires as head adjunct-commissioner of the South African Police.
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The Sahara is traversed by an automobile for the first time.
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Anna Margaretha Louw, Afrikaans author and recipient of various wards, is born in the district of Calvinia.
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The Rev. W.A. Alheit and his youngest daughter, Bella, drown at Kleinmond when a freak wave washes them from the rocks.
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Dulcie Joyce Lind Howes, doyen of ballet in SA, is born in Mossel Bay.
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Agnes Alwena (Wena) Naude, SA actress, is born in Volksrust.
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Stefan Meiring Naudé, i.a. president of the CSIR (1952) and scientific advisor of the premier (1971), is born in De Door
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James Manuel Blanckenberg, SA cricket player in eighteen tests (1913-1924), is born in Claremont, Cape Town.
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Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who is commemorated in many plant names, is born in Rondebosch, Cape Town.
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Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, dies near Kokstad. Date is given as 30 December 1875 in a
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Sidney Mendelssohn, compiler of the South African Bibliography and collector of Africana, is born in Exeter, England.
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Frederick Courteney Selous, traveller, hunter, writer and naturalist is born in London. He came to Southern Africa in 1871. The
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A large force of some 12 000 Western Xhosas, led by Makoma (Maqoma), the leader of the Gaika tribe, sweeps into the Cape Colony
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Josias Phillipus Hoffman, first president of the Orange Free State (1854), is born in Stellenbosch, Western Cape.
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The first French Huguenots leave the Netherlands for the Cape, with vine shoots from France with them on the ship.
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Queen Elizabeth I grants a charter to the "company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies" the East India
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Somali presidential spokesman Yusuf Mohamad Ismail reports that the number of Somali’s killed by the tidal waves that battered
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Gary Kirsten becomes the first SA cricket player to score 10 centuries in test cricket.
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More than 400 people are massacred in four villages in Algeria during the country’s insurgency.
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A flight instructor and an Italian student die when their Piper Cherokee crashes at Boesmansrivier in the Eastern Cape.
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Sudan, angered by the Archbishop of Canterbury’s visit to the rebel-held south, orders the British ambassador to leave the coun
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Four youths are killed in an Apla attack on the Heidelberg Tavern In Observatory, Cape Town.
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SA signs agreement with Botswana regarding the establishment of a representative office.
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Etienne Leroux (67), Afrikaans author and Hertzog Prize winner, dies in a Bloemfontein hospital.
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Establishment of Military Council Act No 1, establishing Military Council and a Council of Ministers to rule the Transkei until
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Robert Mugabe succeeds Canaan Banana and becomes Zimbabwe’s first executive president after reforming the constitution to usher
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The Transkei military, under General Bantu Holomisa, overthrows the administration of Stella Sigcau of the Transkei.
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