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Adm. Hugo (Hendrik) Bierman, head and first admiral of the SA Fleet, is born in Johannesburg.
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US President Bill Clinton signs a bill to punish foreign businesses that invest in Iran and Libya.
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Police Act No 16, granting the police further powers with regard to search and seizure, commences.
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John Xavier Merriman (85), SA statesman and prime minister of the Cape Colony, dies in Stellenbosch.
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John Xavier Merriman (85), SA statesman and prime minister of the Cape Colony, dies in Stellenbosch.
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Three missionaries of the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, Thomas Arbousset, Eugène Casalis and Constant Gosselin obtain
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SA signs agreement with the Swiss Federal Council on the promotion and reciprocal protection of investments.
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Anna Susanna (Antjie) Scheepers, Voortrekker pioneer woman who, together with Martha Tregardt (Trichardt) and Breggie Pretorius
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Charles Berman, mine medical officer and expert on primary liver cancer, is born in Poreveys, Lithuania.
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Nigeria’s military dictator, General Ibrahim Babangida, annuls results of presidential elections and halts a return to democrac
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World War II: North Africa. Tobruk (Torbruk) is bombed by the German and Italian air forces.
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Sir Theophilus Shepstone, administrator with knowledge of the Zulu language and tribal customs, dies in Pietermaritzburg.
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The South African government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill, which proposes an advisory and consultati
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Willem van der Berg, novelist and head of the Afrikaans programmes of the SAUK (SABC), dies.
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The Russian athlete Dmitry Grishin wins the Comrades and equals Bruce Fordyce’s 10-year-old record.
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James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, dies in Cradock, Eastern Cape.
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Movement Matters: American Anti-Apartheid Activism And The Rise Of Multicultural Politics by Dr. David L. Hostetter
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Petition to the House of Commons, from J. Tengo Jabavu and thirteen other signatories, July 13, 1906
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Jay Naidoo, Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Broadcasting, welcomes the recommendation by the South African Telecommu
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Swapo claims SA is moving military equipment and troops to the Angola-South West Africa border.
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The British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation,
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Georg Siegfried Johannes Kuschke, industrialist and managing director of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is born i
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Mozambican rebels rampage through villages, killing about 1 000 people and beheading them, according to media reports.
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Stuart Cloete, SA author of i.a. Wheels and Rags of Glory, is born in Parys, OFS.
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William John Burchell, botanist and explorer of the interior of SA, is born in Fulham, London.
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Special Committee against Apartheid adopts its final report to the General Assembly and the Security Council.
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Children playing on a local beach find the bodies of Ewert Mzimela and Stanley Mabaso, ANC activists.
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Sangiro (A.A. Pienaar) (54), SA author of mainly books about animals and Africa, dies in Stellenbosch.
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Andrew (Andries) Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, Griqua leader (kaptyn) and visionary, dies in Krantzhoek, Plettenberg Bay
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