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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under General French occupies Waterval-Boven and Waterval-Onder in eastern Transvaal.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the South African Government initialled a Memorandum of Understan
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The SA rugby team plays the second test ever against the British Isles and loses 0-3 in Kimberley.
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Following facilitation by former president Nelson Mandela, the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Agreement for Burundi is signed
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Nicolaas Georg (Klaas) Steytler (76), SA author and former editor of Die Huisgenoot, dies in Cape Town.
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Egypt and Britain sign a treaty providing for withdrawal of British forces except in the Suez Canal area.
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Former SA President F.W. de Klerk resigns as the head of the National Party and leaves politics.
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National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) general secretary Cyril Ramaphosa and president James Motlatsi are arrested in Newcastle,
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The Medicines Control Council (MCC) threatens to de-register Nevirapine unless further studies and appropriate documentation ca
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Diederik Johannes Opperman, Afrikaans poet, dramatist and litterateur, is born near Dundee, Natal. Verwey: New Dictionary of
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Pope John Paul II appoints thirty-one new cardinals including three from Africa – Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria.
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Pope John Paul II appoints thirty-one new cardinals including three from Africa – Sudan, Ghana and Nigeria.
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Jean Pierre Pellissier, missionary and progenitor of the Pellissier family in South Africa, is born in France.
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Demonstration in or near Court Buildings Prohibition Act No 10, prohibiting certain public gatherings and demonstrations, comme
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Johannes Scheepers, founder member of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) and organising secretary of the Oss
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The Star reports that Roelf Meyer, deputy minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, identified fourteen urban areas,
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Sidney Mendelssohn, collector of Africana and author of the South African Bibliography in 1910, dies in London.
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Thirty-four passengers and four crewmembers die when a Spanish plane crashes into a hill on the Moroccan coast.
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Dr Johannes Frederik (Hans) Janse van Rensburg, commandant-general of the ‘Ossewabrandwag’ (OB) movement and administrator of t
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Col. Sir David Harris (90), soldier, politician, mining magnate and director of De Beers, dies in Kimberley.
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Diederik Johannes Opperman, Afrikaans poet, dramatist, litterateur, and professor of the University of Stellenbosch, dies in St
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Twenty people die in Kliprivier when gunmen, travelling in two minibuses, open fire on vehicles and pedestrians.
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The government prohibits an anti-apartheid conference organised by COSATU and restricts its organisers for ten days.
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The government prohibits an anti-apartheid conference organised by COSATU and restricts its organisers for ten days.
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Jan Lion Cachet, champion of Afrikaans and member of the firstand second Afrikaanse Taalbeweging (Afrikaans Language Movement),
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Great Britain’s Prime Minister John Major pays an official state visit to South Africa and addresses Parliament.
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The French take possession of Mauritius and rename it l’Ile de France (The Island of France).
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South Africa signs memorandum of understanding with Iran on cooperation in the fields of mining and minerals.
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South Africa signs memorandum of understanding with Iran on cooperation in the fields of mining and minerals.
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