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Benjamin Mzimkulu (Ben) Macala, SA artist, is born in Bloemfontein. As a young boy he tended cattle on a farm in the Orange
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Jahleel Brenton, SA artist and marine officer after whom the islands Brenton and Jahleel were called, is born in Warwick, Engla
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Bessie Amelia Head, SA novelist, short story writer and social historian dies in Serowe, Botswana. She had gone to Botswana in
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Special Offences Act No 6 commences, making it an offence to possess a tyre or similar object, or any inflammable liquid, in ci
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A special committee of the United Nations accepts an invitation by South Africa to send two of its members, Dr Victorio Carpio
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Sydney Alex Kumalo (also documented as Khumalo), SA artist, is born in Johannesburg. He began studying at Polly Street Art Ce
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August Friedrich Beutler, official of the Dutch East Indies Company and scout of the interior of SA, is born in Dinkelsbühl, G
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A full bench of eleven judges of the Appeal Court upholds an appeal against a conviction under the Terrorism Act, on the ground
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According to the SA department of foreign affairs nineteen of the twenty-six people arrested in the Democratic Republic of the
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The new campus of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) is opened by the SA state president and chancellor of the university
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In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con
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An historic four hour meeting is held between the Council of Mining Unions, representing White miners; the NUM; Mr Adriaan Vlok
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WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack
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Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The first ‘Mafeking night”. In an unprecedented display of public emotions, life in the great cities in Bri
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’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).
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Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.
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Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international internet competition in which more than 20 000 lea
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Three learners of Die Adelaar high school in Roodepoort win an international internet competition in which more than 20 000 lea
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Lawrence George Green (72), SA author of mainly travel books, dies in Cape Town. Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of Sou
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The government grants an amnesty in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Republic. Over 30,000 prisoners stand to benefi
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Florence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born. Nurses in SA undertake to honour the oath of Florence Nighting
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An historic four hour meeting is held between the Council of Mining Unions, representing White miners; the NUM; Mr Adriaan Vlok
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The Australian Government announces that it would give an extra 8 million Australian Dollars in aid to South Africa over the ne
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Ruben Xulu SA artist is born in Hlabisa, Natal. Xulu, born deaf, began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hlabisa mission statio
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Noria Mabasa (also Mabaso), SA artist, is born in Tshigalo, Ramukhumba, Venda. She moved to White City in Soweto but return
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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, dies in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organise
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SA rugby is plunged into a crisis because Louis Luyt refuses to resign as president of the South African Rugby Football Union.
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Concluding its investigation into the crash in the mountains near George in the Western Cape in which former SA cricket captain
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