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The Khoi and San National Language Body is officially launched in Upington, Northern Cape. Its aim is to promote and develop th
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The Khoi and San National Language Body is officially launched in Upington, Northern Cape. Its aim is to promote and develop th
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Tension continues between the British and the Boers in South Africa, and the British Army is ordered to mobil
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The Directors of the Dutch East India Company (Heeren XVII or Lords Seventeen) propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possib
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John Ndevasia Muafangejo, SA artist and teacher, is born in Etunda lo Nghadi, Angola. He moved to South West Africa in 1956
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The leader of the New Republic Party, Vause Raw, states that his party is prepared to give the President’s Council a chance as
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The leader of the New Republic Party, Vause Raw, states that his party is prepared to give the President’s Council a chance as
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A US federal jury finds Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others guilty of plotting to blow up the World Trade
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Blind Egyptian cleric Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine other Islamic militants are convicted in New York for a plot to blow up
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Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu presents the new plan of the government, accepted by the cabinet on the 1st, to obliterate info
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Labour Party leader Allan Hendrickse warns President P.W. Botha: “If you want to negotiate with us, the Group Areas Act must go
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About 200 000 White South Africans will visit Soweto this year, according to the Soweto Tourism Association, up from 30 000 fiv
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The bill for setting free the slaves in the British dominions receives the royal assent. Slavery is to cease at a certain date,
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The SABC reports that former apartheid minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok has apologised to the director-general of the Pre
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About 100 local businessmen, led by John Magolego, agree to organise Mapogo a Mathamaga on the day after the burial of the eigh
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World War II: East Africa. South African troops are landed at Tulearon (Toliara) on the south west coast of Madagascar, to supp
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Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, warns the League of Nations that he is going to mobilise his forces because of threats of
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The UN Security Council bans sales of arms and fuel to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) because
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Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa is launched to articulate the interests of tribal chiefs and act as an extra-pa
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The United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa, headed by Ms Angela King, is established to assist the parties in South Af
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The Rand Supreme Court rules that Blacks from the homelands can establish the right to reside permanently in towns in White Sou
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The Prime Minister pays a secret visit (22-23 September) to the Ivory Coast in pursuit of his policy of seeking dialogue with B
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The Prime Minister wishes the new Mozambique government well, but warns that South Africa will have to act in self-defence if M
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Cecil John Rhodes makes his first will, leaving all his possessions to the British secretary of state for the colonies, in trus
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South Africa’s Black gold miners today called off their first legal strike, which lasted just one day but, according to mine ow
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A Netherlands fleet under Wijbrand van Warwijk arrives at an island in the Indian Ocean. They stay for nearly four months to re
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The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t
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Fana Nzimande, IFP supporting headman, his wife and four children between the ages of four to fifteen, are shot dead in their h
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The British settlement in Sierra Leone is founded. Britain says it is to provide a home in Africa for freed slaves and homeless
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