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The United States and Somalia sign an agreement giving US naval and air forces access to military facilities in the East Africa
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Senegal decides to withdraw from the Mali Federation which it has formed with French Sudan (now Mali) in 1959, and gains comple
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King Leopold of Belgium hands over the Congo to the Belgian State. Previously he held it as a private possession. The Congo Fre
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The father of Rosalind Ballingall, who got lost in the Knysna forest, arrives from Johannesburg to assist in the search for his
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Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga
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The UN Security Council authorises the urgent stationing of an open number of UN observers in South Africa to help end violence
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In his presidential address to the South African Institute of Race Relations, Rev. Dr Stanley Mogoba said that in spite of abho
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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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The death toll in the ambush of a refugee train by Angolan rebels rises to 252 after rescue workers identify 100 more bodies.
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The first of the four Old Mutual Soweto Marathon Schools Challenge races takes place at Kagiso, in Soweto, with close to 1 500
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer snipers suddenly open fire on the massed troops of the Canadians of Strathcona’s Horse, the first to ent
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The Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners (GRA) is founded in Paarl, as a direct outcome of the efforts by Pannevis to have the Bible
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Hundreds of Burundians and a few foreigners pack the airport to catch the last commercial flights out of the country as the wor
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The Foreign Minister of France said at a press conference in Nairobi that no new contract for arms sales to South Africa could
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During a visit to Paraguay by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (13-18 Aug.), four agreements on South Afr
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Boer leader General Koos de la Rey, en route to Potchefstroom with general Beyers, is shot dead when his chauffeur-driven car f
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The death toll in the ambush of a refugee train by Angolan rebels rises to 252 after rescue workers identify 100 more bodies.
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The soccer race has started to get "Winning Team 2010" off the ground and ready for action when South Africa hosts th
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Justice van Wyk of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is appointed as a one-man Commission to inquire into all aspects
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WWI: The first ships with SA soldiers on board leave for the ports of German South West Africa to invade the territory.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The young Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands puts the Gelderland at the disposal of Pres. Paul Kruger to jou
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The chairman of the Central Road Board of the Cape Colony, P.B. Borcherds, opens Bain’s Kloof Pass to traffic. The pass was d
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Paul Kruger crosses the Transvaal border on his way to Lourenço Marques, from where he leaves for Eu
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At least twenty-five people are reported to have died in violence between members of the United Democratic Party and Inkatha in
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The SA delegation to the UN walks out during the debate on apartheid, claiming that it is interfering with SA domestic affairs.
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The inquest into Dr. Aggett’s death is adjourned for the third time when police object to the use, as evidence, of a statement
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Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa
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Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as first Black prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as the country is briefly known prior to i
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The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth. At Elsies River
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