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Baron Joachim Ammena van Plettenberg, Cape governor, reaches a bay near Melkhoutkraal which he names Plettenberg Bay and where
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Internal Peace Institutions Act No 135, providing for the establishment of a National Peace Secretariat and local dispute resol
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Industrial Conciliation Further Amendment Act No 61, prohibiting strikes and lockouts for any purpose unconnected with the empl
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Anglo-Boer War 2: “Mournful Monday”: the British lose 106 killed, 374 wounded and 1 284 captured in two battles.
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The first group of European Community observers, including some police officers, lawyers and economists, arrive in South Africa
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Financier and industrialist Harry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley. He became chairperson of the Anglo American Corpo
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The Special Committee against Apartheid publishes the first Register of Entertainers, Actors and Others who have Performed in S
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The Soweto Students’ Congress (SOSCO) and the Azanian Co-ordinating Committee are restricted in terms of emergency regulations.
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Sydney Charles Buxton, British statesman and second governor-general of the Union of SA, is born in London.
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The Fall of Cecil Rhodes and the Rise of Black Power in Africa by Veli Mbele, 3-5 April 2015
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Old Mutual is listed as a public company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and the London Stock Exchange.
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Fietas, Johannesburg: A memorandum relating to the housing conditions and need for housing schemes of poorer Indians is present
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The home match between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Cameroon ends in a tie, with 2 goals each.
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During the years of territorial disputes between France and Britain in Africa, a French expedition under Jean-Batiste Marchand
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João Albasini (75), elephant-hunter, trader and White chief of the Magwamba tribe, dies in the Soutpansberg district.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lieutenant General Hunter and Brigadier-General Sir Hector A. MacDonald arrive at Bethlehem, OFS. Hunter take
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Brig. Oupa Gqozo, chairman of the Ciskei state council, founds the African Democratic Movement and rejects unitary state.
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Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act No 55, prohibiting marriages between Whites and members of other racial groups, commences.
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Opening of Delagoa Bay Railway. According to SESA, the regular railway service between Pretoria and Lourenço Marques stared
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Herry, also known as Autshumao, Khoi-Khoi interpreter and chief of the Goringhaikonas, is banished to Robben Island
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Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, highest award of the International Red
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Eleven commuters are killed in a possible IFP-ANC related attack on minibus taxis and private vehicles in Germiston.
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The Instituut vir Opvoeding en Onderwys (Institute for education and teaching) is founded in Bloemfontein during the National C
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Generals Louis Botha and Jan Smuts travel from Pretoria to Johannesburg to mediate in the first miners’ strike.
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Johannes Albertus Munnik (Albert) Hertzog, advocate, politician, leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party and eldest son of form
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The Middenmark is driven on the rocks in Table Bay by a strong wind and seventy-five people drown.
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Andries Johannes Bester de Klerk, writer and provincial secretary of the Cape Province, is born in Williston, CP.
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Brussels Act is passed by international conference to eradicate African slave trade and liquor traffic with primitive peoples.
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Under the 1982 internal Security Act all existing banning orders are automatically revoked a year later, and, as a consequence,
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