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Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was
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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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Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling win the first gold medal for SA for the 4 x 100m relay at the
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The first cases of Spanish Flu, also called ‘Great flu’ are diagnosed in Durban, starting the influenza epidemic in SA that kil
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The first cases of Spanish Flu, also called ‘Great flu’ are diagnosed in Durban, starting the influenza epidemic in SA that kil
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WWI: The first ships with SA soldiers on board leave for the ports of German South West Africa to invade the territory.
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B.J. Vorster, former SA prime minister and state president is buried in the so-called Heroes’ Acre at the Dutch Reformed Church
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Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E
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The Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor-General of SA, Dr E.G. Jansen during a concert by
ArchiveBiko, the State and the SA Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) and now the Medical Association of South Africa (MASA): Editorial comment
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Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa
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Thomas Tommy Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy), SA artist, is born at the East Rand, Johannesburg. He was born deaf and atten
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Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt with an assegai and have stolen
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Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,
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An earthquake measuring 6.8 strikes Algeria’s northern coast, 70 km east of Algiers. At least 2 200 people are killed in the in
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Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home
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Jabu Ndlovu, his wife Jabulani, both trade unionists (NUMSA), and their daughter, are shot and burnt in an attack on their home
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Dick King, a 29-year-old wagon driver, and his 16-year-old servant, Ndongeni, leave Durban on horseback for Grahamstown on an e
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The SA general election is won by the United Party with 111 seats, followed by the ‘Herenigde Nasionale Party’ (Re-united Nat
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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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Andre George Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player and lawyer who was awarded the accolade, ‘Playmaker of the Decade’ by Kick Off for
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The SA general election is won by the United Party with 111 seats, followed by the ‘Herenigde Nasionale Party’ (Re-united Nat
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104 miners are crushed to death when an elevator carrying gold miners plunges to the bottom of a Vaal Reef mineshaft near Orkne
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Eleven people die in Sundumbili, Natal Midlands, in an alleged attack by IFP members, in collusion with Kwa-Zulu police and for
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A section of railway line is blown up near Hoedspruit, Northern Transvaal, in what is believed to be an ANC attack to coincide
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The Huguenot Church, designed by Louis Thibault and oldest church building in SA after the Groote Kerk in Cape Town, is consecr
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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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Under an amendment to the Defence Act the definition of superior officer is changed with the effect that White and Black member
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For the next month, until May 25, a comet known only as “The Great Comet of 1901’ is visible over most of SA.
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