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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Portuguese government sanctions the passage of British troops and stores via Beira, Mozambique, thereby v

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Parliament establishes the Human Rights Commission to promote and protect human rights. It is empowered to investigate violatio

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Relative calm returns to Algeria after cease-fire, ending seven years of warfare between French and Algerian Nationalists.

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Egypt’s highest court clears democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim on charges of defaming Egypt and illegally accepting foreign

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The World Health Organisation reports that without urgent action against tuberculosis, 1-billion people will be infected and 70

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Jan Egeland, the United Nations’ relief co-ordinator, announces in Geneva that conflict and preventable disease have triggered

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Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, is born in Glücksberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, wh

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John Christoffel Kannemeyer, expert in Afrikaans literature and author of several biographies of Afrikaans writers, is born in

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Sir James Rose-Innes retires as Chief Justice of the Union and is succeeded by Sir William Solomon.

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Gustav Bernhard August Gerdener, professor at the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch and founder member of SABRA (South A Afr

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Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, arrives at the Cape.

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Negotiations between Nelson Mandela of the ANC and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to end violence in townships, fails.

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A United Nations official says South Africa and the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) have formally accepted an

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Referring to allegations that a vendetta is being conducted against churches and religious workers in SA, Prime Minister Vorste

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General J.B.M. Hertzog, as Prime Minister, forms a coalition government between the National party and the South African Party

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Victor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town.

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The Minister for Bantu Administration and Development hands over the symbols of authority to the Kwazulu Legislative Authority.

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Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State.

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Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and a leading anti-apartheid activist, is shot

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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that the government has decided on far-reaching concessions for

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João Albasini, trader in SA, Bantu commissioner and White chief of the Magwamba tribe, is born in Portugal.

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The Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.

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Peace is established between the Cape government and the Xhosa under King Hintsa, ending the Sixth Frontier War.

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Prof. J.C. van Rooy and Dr E. Greyling open the CNO-Voortrekker-Bewaarskool (Christian National Education Crèche) in Pietermar

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Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with Libya and orders all Libyan embassy staff to leave within seven days.

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The prime minister announces a new sport policy in which he distinguishes between multiracial sport and multinational sport. Mu

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Sathyandranath Ragunanan (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and former SA Minister of Transport, is born in Newcastle, Natal. He

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Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson agrees to let all foreigners leave Monrovia’s US Embassy compound and let the peacekeepers s

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John Bird, civil servant, scholar and the father of historical study in Natal, is born in Rondebosch, Cape.

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The Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, Dr Albert Hertzog, confirms that the government’s policy regarding television is unchange

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Portuguese government sanctions the passage of British troops and stores via Beira, Mozambique, thereby v

Parliament establishes the Human Rights Commission to promote and protect human rights. It is empowered to investigate violatio

Relative calm returns to Algeria after cease-fire, ending seven years of warfare between French and Algerian Nationalists.

Egypt’s highest court clears democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim on charges of defaming Egypt and illegally accepting foreign

The World Health Organisation reports that without urgent action against tuberculosis, 1-billion people will be infected and 70

Jan Egeland, the United Nations’ relief co-ordinator, announces in Geneva that conflict and preventable disease have triggered

Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, is born in Glücksberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, wh

John Christoffel Kannemeyer, expert in Afrikaans literature and author of several biographies of Afrikaans writers, is born in

Sir James Rose-Innes retires as Chief Justice of the Union and is succeeded by Sir William Solomon.

Gustav Bernhard August Gerdener, professor at the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch and founder member of SABRA (South A Afr

Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, arrives at the Cape.

Negotiations between Nelson Mandela of the ANC and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to end violence in townships, fails.

A United Nations official says South Africa and the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) have formally accepted an

Referring to allegations that a vendetta is being conducted against churches and religious workers in SA, Prime Minister Vorste

General J.B.M. Hertzog, as Prime Minister, forms a coalition government between the National party and the South African Party

Victor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town.

The Minister for Bantu Administration and Development hands over the symbols of authority to the Kwazulu Legislative Authority.

Louise Behrens, SA novelist and one of the first Afrikaans journalists, is born in the Orange Free State.

Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and a leading anti-apartheid activist, is shot

The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that the government has decided on far-reaching concessions for

João Albasini, trader in SA, Bantu commissioner and White chief of the Magwamba tribe, is born in Portugal.

The Convention on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.

Peace is established between the Cape government and the Xhosa under King Hintsa, ending the Sixth Frontier War.

Prof. J.C. van Rooy and Dr E. Greyling open the CNO-Voortrekker-Bewaarskool (Christian National Education Crèche) in Pietermar

Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with Libya and orders all Libyan embassy staff to leave within seven days.

The prime minister announces a new sport policy in which he distinguishes between multiracial sport and multinational sport. Mu

Sathyandranath Ragunanan (Mac) Maharaj, political activist and former SA Minister of Transport, is born in Newcastle, Natal. He

Liberian warlord Roosevelt Johnson agrees to let all foreigners leave Monrovia’s US Embassy compound and let the peacekeepers s

John Bird, civil servant, scholar and the father of historical study in Natal, is born in Rondebosch, Cape.

The Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, Dr Albert Hertzog, confirms that the government’s policy regarding television is unchange