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The Nieuwe Republiek, with Lucas Meyer as president, is established in northern Natal, on land awarded to them by Dinizulu (Din
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An American Lear jet, on its way to Johannesburg for repair, is shot down over Eritrea by Ethiopia, killing two people.
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Workers in Nigeria’s key oil industry, air traffic controllers and others launch a strike in a bid to force out the military-ba
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Explorer and navigator Vasco da Gama arrives in Lisbon after completing his voyage to India around the Cape of Good Hope.
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Algeria closes its border with Morocco in an escalating dispute over the arrest of two Algerians accused of plotting to attack
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Lord Milner arrives back in Cape Town and the Cape Ministry produces a list of complaints to substantiate their opinion that th
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Eighty-four African would-be immigrants drown off Mauritania after their boats sank in an attempt to reach Spain’s Canary Islan
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Christiaan Andries van Niekerk, commandant in the Anglo-Boer War 2 (one of only six persons to vote against the conclusion of p
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The Prime Minister warns the opposition parties, the United Party and Progressive Party that his government may have to end int
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Anglo Boer War 2: In terms of martial law regulations, the veteran Cape politician, John X Merriman, is confined to his farm ne
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Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h
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Roelof Temmingh, SA composer and organist, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He emigrates with his family in 1958 to SA.
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Controversial mining magnate Brett Kebble is shot dead in Melrose, Johannesburg, around 21:00 on his way to the dinner engageme
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Two South Africans are appointed to a high-profile Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). The University of Na
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The Convention on Assistance in the Case of a Nuclear Accident or Radiological Emergency, to which SA is a party, is signed in
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Personnel of the SA Air Force’s No 2 (Flying Cheetah) Squadron leave Durban to assist the United Nations in the Korean War.
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Jan Hendrik Boom, gardener at the Cape, and his wife Annetjie (Annetjie de Boerin), receive permission to farm and keep dairy c
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Five hundred people attend an AWB meeting and a further 200 attend an Afrikaner Volkswag meeting the gatherings are held to pro
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The Department of Native Affairs is renamed as the Department of Bantu Administration and Development, with its main aim to pro
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Catherine Labuschagne 25 makes history when she becomes the first woman fighter pilot in the world to fly a Gripen fighter jet
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Thirty passengers are injured and admitted to various hospitals when a taxi crashes into the back of another taxi on William Ni
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The town of Mafeking is officially surrendered by the Republic of South Africa to the Republic of Bophuthatswana, and upon its
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The notorious Foster gang under leadership of William Foster, who stole and raided from 1912 to 1914, commit suicide in Johanne
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The explorer John Speke (37), first White man to reach the origin of the Nile River, kills himself in a shooting accident.
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Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h
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The government prohibits the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) to carry out its activities. The date is given as 24 August 198
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The Motsuenyane Commission finds the ANC guilty of torture in its camps and calls for a public apology to people whose rights h
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bergendal, near Vanwyksvlei, starts. Gen. Joachim Fourie’s men force the 11th Hussars to retrea
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US military forces attack a chemical plant in Sudan and what they describe as a terrorist camp in Afghanistan. Said to be linke
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