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EventANC member and UDF-leader Christmas Tinto, is born in Mqanduli in the Transkei
Christmas Fihla Tinto was born on Christmas day on 25 December 1925 in the Mqanduli district of the former Transkei, now part of Eastern Cape Province. His…
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Mohammed Anwar Al Sadat, former president of Egypt, is born in Mit Abu al-Kum, Egypt. Date is given as 24 December by several o
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Johan Daniël (Bull) Hefer, professional wrestling promoter, is born on the farm Rusplaas, district Fauresmith, OFS.
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The Bondelswarts, a small tribe of Nama origin who settled at Warmbad, South West Africa about 1905, capitulates to the German
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Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Tweefontein, (also Groenkop or Krismiskop) General De Wet surprises British soldiers. At
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The Gereformeerde Kerk (Reformed Church) in Church Street, Pretoria, (also known as Paul Kruger church) is inaugurated.
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Sarah Eva Goldblatt, assistant of author C.J. Langenhoven, is born in London.
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Dr Petrus Stephanus Zacharias Coetzee, first assessor of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), is born at Blaauboschfontein, Boshof
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Johannes Brill, rector of Grey College, is born in Zutphen, the Netherlands. He was the first linguist to argue that Afrikaans
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Sir Henry George Elliot, chief landdros of the Transkei after whom the town Elliot was named, is born in Canada.
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Alleged date of death of Makana by drowning while trying to escape from Robben Island, where he was imprisoned. He struggled
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Johann Gotfried Mocke, field-cornet and Voortrekker commandant, is born in Graaff-Reinet district.
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Vasco Da Gama gives the name Terra do Natal to the coast around the Kei River. The name was later extended to cover the coast u
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Bartolomeu Dias enters the wide bay now known as Lüderitz Bay after sailing for three weeks along the arid Namib coast of Sout
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Christian Church chooses this day to observe the birth of Christ.
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Christmas Day.
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The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students (C
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Four people are killed in a pipe bomb explosion in a busy shopping centre in Worcester, Western Cape.
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A female coelacanth, containing twenty-six near-term embryos, is caught off Pebane, Mozambique.
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Charles Taylor enters Liberia to unseat President Samuel K. Doe.
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Gazankulu: Social Pensions Amendment Act No 7 commences.
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Ex-Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, CAR, is sentenced to death while in exile in France.
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The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students
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Jean Max Friedrich (Johan) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in 1937, dies in Cape Town.
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SA signs agreement with Botswana relating to the establishment of a Botswana government labour representative in South Africa.
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development leaves Malawi after a four-day visit during which cooperation between nati
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Gary Muller, SA tennis player, is born.
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Macassar Beach on False Bay, district Wynberg, is proclaimed a Coloured group area by the Group Areas Board.
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Guy Pierre Du Toit, S.A. sculptor, is born in Rustenburg, Transvaal.
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