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During the Pretoria centenary M.W. Pretorius, grandson of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius and great-grandson of Voortrekker leader A
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Prof. Paul Friedrich Detlev Weiss, professor in theology and Afrikaans cultural leader, is born in Standerton, Tvl.
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André Huguenet, stage-name of Gerhardus Petrus Borstlap, SA actor, producer and author, is born in Bloemfontein.
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Morné du Plessis, SA rugby captain and son of Springbok Felix du Plessis, is born in Vereeniging.
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Frederich Martin Joseph Welwitsch (66), botanist and discoverer of the welwitschia plant in Namibia, dies in London.
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The office of the Minister of Agricultural Economics and Marketing is damaged by an explosion in Pretoria.
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Johann Gotfried Mocke (83), field-cornet and Voortrekker commandant, dies on Blesboklaagte farm, near Ohrigstad, eastern Transv
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Johannes Jan Hendrikus Lambertus Kock (Jan Hendrik), Voortrekker commandant, wagon-builder and politician who helped to frame t
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Frederick William Beyers, judge and SA minister of mining in 1924 is born in Paarl, Cape Colony.
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Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.
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Jeremy and Joan Brickhill of the ANC are seriously injured in a motor bomb attack in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Fourteen people, including leading members of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People’s Convention
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National Eagle Day, organised by the Raptor Conservation Group and short-term insurer SA Eagle,is celebrated.
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Gustav Schoeman Preller (68), journalist, cultural leader and first Afrikaans literary critic, dies in Pelindaba, near Pretoria
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Essop Jassat, medical practitioner and political community worker, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. During the apartheid era
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The SA Davis Cup tennis team, Bob Hewitt, Frew McMillan and Ray Mordt, beats Italy 4-1 in Ellispark.
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The SA Davis Cup tennis team, Bob Hewitt, Frew McMillan and Ray Mordt, beats Italy 4-1 in Ellispark.
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Nigeria is granted full independence as a federation of three regions (northern, western, and eastern) under a constitution tha
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Prof. Christiaan Engelbertus (Chris) Lampbrecht, choir master and adaptor of SA folk music, is born in Bloemfontein.
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The Ciskei ‘homeland’ government proclaims the introduction of emergency powers, after violent incidents and rioting. The power
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KwaZulu Chief Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, President Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana and Ciskei’s Oupa Gqozo reject the recor
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Thousands of "non-Whites" march and bathe at "Whites only" beaches in a nationwide defiance campaign in Sou
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The Rev. John Daniel Lindley (80), missionary and clergyman of the Voortrekkers, dies in Morristown, New Jersey.
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Britain signs a peace treaty with the Zulus, banishing Cetshwayo and dividing Zululand in thirteen separate chiefdoms under a B
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Chief warlord Charles Taylor and other key militia leaders are installed in a new ruling council in Liberia.
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Chief warlord Charles Taylor and other key militia leaders are installed in a new ruling council in Liberia.
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Mr Zwelinzima Vavi, regional secretary of COSATU’s Western Transvaal region is arrested and held in solitary confinement.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Two Australians of the Tasmanian Imperial Bushmen, Lieutenant Wylly and Private Bisdee, display exceptional b
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Multilateral agreement between the governments of Ciskei, South Africa, Transkei and Venda on the cross-border transportation o
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