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Zulu king Dingane signs the treaty drafted by Retief on February 4 in which he declares his approval to grant an extensive area
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Elections for the Coloured and Indian Parliament under the new Constitution, to be held on 22 August 1984, are announced by the
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The Anti-Convict Association in Cape Town dissolves as a result of an order-in-council rescinding the decision to make the Cape
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The British consul presents a White Paper on the atrocities being carried out by Belgium in the Congo Free State to the Belgian
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News 24 reports that a delay with the awarding of a tender of billions of rands to renew Spoornet’s age-old locomotives is thre
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The British capture Benghazi in Libya for the first time; they hold it until April but are then forced to evacuate, recapturing
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Groot Constantia, which shipped wine to Napoleon in exile on the island of St Helena until his death in 1821, concludes another
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Albert Nzula, teacher, journalist and leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), who left SA to study in Moscow in 1
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Comet McNaught, reported to be the brightest comet visible from earth in the last thirty years, is seen at its brightest in d
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As the rent boycott continues, The Star suggests that there are four categories of people not paying rent: those refusing to pa
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The terms of reference of the Harms Commission, which is to inquire into alleged murders and unlawful acts of the security forc
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The coastal city of Agadir, in southern Morocco, entirely rebuilt after an earthquake in 1731, is again razed to the ground. At
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The first wine is pressed at the Cape. Jan van Riebeeck writes in his journal that the harvest amounted to twelve “mengelen
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The territory north of the Great Berg River is annexed to the new district of Tulbagh, and declared a separate sub-drosdy with
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US President Bush announces an initiative to spend $15bn over five years for Aids treatment and prevention in twelve African co
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The Security Police arrest Major A.M. Kozlov, a senior officer in the Soviet KGB, during his third visit to South Africa in 198
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The minutes of for the meeting where the South African team to participate in the Olympic Games in 1908 was decided on
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The appointment of the group of experts to examine the problem of apartheid, in terms of the United Nations Security Council re
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De Villiers Bester Lamprecht, the first South African to complete the mile in less than four minutes, is born in Prince Albert.
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Three Somalis are killed and at least five are wounded in clashes with troops of a US-led coalition trying to safeguard efforts
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The Government Gazette proclaims that only one-fifth of District Six, will be returned in its entirety to its earlier status an
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The Proteas became the first South African team in history to win a Test cricket series in Australia when they took an unassail
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In his New Year’s Eve address the prime minister warns the country that South Africa will have to face the Communist onslaught
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The crew of a SA helicopter, which were arrested in Mozambique on their way to the scene of the Helderberg disaster, arrive bac
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The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, to which SA is a party, is signed i
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Helen Beatrice May Joseph, SA political and human rights activist, dies in Johannesburg. She came to SA in 1931 and, with Lilia
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Summary Minutes of a Meeting held at the US Embassy in Cairo on 24 June 1988 between the South African and US delegations to the Cairo talks
Minutes of a meeting held between South African and US delegates to discuss national reconciliation in Southern Africa and the withdrawal of Cuban troops from…
ArticleThe Arniston
The Arniston was built on the River Thames, England in 1794. It was a three-decked and three-masted British East Indiaman vessel and was first used as a…
BiographyQaqawuli Godolozi
Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he grew…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
This topic follows on from the previous one. Having looked at a period when it was not clear that Europe would dominate the world, this topic now explores how…