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Reginald Rooseveldt MacIntyre Ndumiso Cingo, evangelist and educationist who was headmaster of the first secondary day school f
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Carl Gottlieb Büttner, Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, is born in Königsberg,
ArchiveMeeting between President Samora Machel and Mr R F Botha in Maputo at 19h00 on 13 August 1985
ArchiveSASO Executive and Staff: Minutes of the meeting held in Durban at Head Office, 23 March 1974
The meeting discussed the business affairs of the branches of the South African Students Organisation
ArchiveThe new situation in Southern Africa and the position of the oppressed majority in apartheid South Africa
Document presented by the ANC to the Organisation of African Unity, towards their strategy for liberation of South Africa.
ArchiveBotswana, Lesotho and Swaziland Countries Symposium on Migrant Labour. Symposium held in Gaborone, Botswana 6-10 November, 1978.
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In a public repudiation of Mugabe’s designs on expanding his presidential powers and expropriating White-owned farms, Zimbabwea
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Community and sports leader Hassan Howa dies. The government posthumously bestowed a presidential medal on him in 1998.
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The Rev. T.C. Esterhuysen (Oom Essie, 66), missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church, dies.
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Britain and Egypt sign new treaty, according to which Sudan is to have independence within three years.
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A second treaty is signed for the establishment of the border between the Orange Free State and Basutoland.
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Ndebele (Matabele) King Lobengula accepts British protection and the British South Africa Company imposes protectorate over Nd
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Nigerian planes bomb and strafe a crowded market in a village in rebellious Biafra, killing more than 200 people.
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Cradock becomes a municipality. The settlement started in 1813 as a frontier outpost and was proclaimed a township in 1814.
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Chris Heunis, Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, is appointed Acting State President by President P.W. Botha
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Dr Andrew Murray, noted South African clergyman and educationist, dies in Wellington at the age of 88.
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Joseph Matthew Seshego Latakgomo, journalist and editor of several newspapers in the past, is born in Pretoria.
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Steve Tshwete, Minister of Sport and Recreation, holds talks with representatives of nine national sports organisations, urging
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Philemon (Duma) Pearce Dumasile Nokwe, first African advocate of the Supreme Court of Transvaal and a politician, dies.
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Prof. Matthys Stefanus Benjamin Kritzinger, Afrikaans literator and lexicographer, is born in the district of Carolina, Eastern
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under General Neville Lyttelton and General Charles Warren cross the Tugela River.
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President Samora Machel of Mozambique decrees an end to private ownership, and Lourenço Marques is renamed Maputo.
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Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda banns the opposition United Progressive Party and arrests its leader, Simon Kapepwe, together
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The “Ossewabrandwag” (OB) is founded as an Afrikaans cultural and political organisation in Bloemfontein, under leadership of C
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Fighting between Inkatha and the United Democratic Front supporters spills into central Pietermaritzburg when the Cosatu office
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The President’s Council is formally inaugurated as a policy-advisory, problem-directed, reform-orientated and future-looking bo
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Joseph Tshifura Makhari, engineer, student leader and recipient of various international study grants is born in Thohoyandou, V
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Rebels begin an offensive in Eritrea, Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s military government orders bombers, armoured units and troops into o
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Inkatha Freedom Party dismisses Dr Ben Ngubane, premier of KwaZulu-Natal, and Vincent Zulu, MEC for education.
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