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St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a
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Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori
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The elections result in the return to power, with a slightly reduced majority, of the National Party and notable gains for the
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The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, orders the Minister of Law and Order, Le Grange, to investigate the activities of the Afrikaner
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Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas
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The Conservative Party (CP) caucus agrees to hold talks with the National Party on setting up a White state (volkstaat), but ex
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Senior ANC leaders such as Joe Slovo, Thabo Mbeki and others, return to South African after a quarter of a century in exile. ]
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Johannes Burman, botanist and physician who wrote one of the first works entirely devoted to Cape flora, is born in Amsterdam,
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General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the
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General Erwin Rommel’s Deutsches Afrika Korps forces the British out of Halfaya Pass, just southeast of Sollum, and back to the
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Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai
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The Trans-Kalahari main road, the first road south of the Sahara to connect the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, is opened.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In one of the most savage incidents Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to
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A punitive commando under joint command of Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter is sent off to punish Dingane and return stolen cattl
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IFP decides to end its parliamentary boycott of mid-February. The party gives an ultimatum that it will boycott the Constituent
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As part of the consolidation process of homelands, Ndume (Ndumo?) Game Reserve is given to KwaZulu. This means that KwaZulu now
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Zairian rebels order 20 000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the a
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The draft Constitution is published. It is widely criticized and the government decides not to introduce it in the current Parl
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India announces that a preliminary conference will be held on 6 February 1950 in Cape Town to discuss the procedure of the prop
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According to press reports, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) accused the ANC of being "guilty of deceit and dup
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Richard Philip (Dick) King, pioneer settler of Natal who travelled nearly 1 000 km on horseback in ten days to deliver dispatch
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Vasco da Gama, on his way to the East, lands near present Mossel Bay, staying for a week. Aucklandpark: Federasie van Afri
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A former theology student, Carl Niehaus, is sentenced to fifteen years in prison for high treason in the Rand Supreme Court. Hi
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The Sunday Independent reports that at least 1,2 million Zimbabweans have fled to South Africa during the past three years, bri
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It is announced that French doctors have made a major break-through, which may lead to the invention of a HIV/Aids vaccine.
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The P.K. le Roux Dam (now Vanderkloof Dam), an integral part of the Orange River development project to provide electric power,
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Judge Goldstone makes an urgent plea to the SAG for wider powers, more resources and greater co-operation for his investigation
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A proclamation by Commander R.C. Dryer is ratified by British Letters Patent, and the annexation of Walvis Bay to the Cape of
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News 24 reports that an outbreak of Ebola virus in north-western Republic of Congo has killed 5 000 gorillas, helping to
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