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Hezekiel Sepeng, SA Olympic -, World and Commonwealth silver medal winner in the 800m events, is born in Potchefstroom. ;
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Johann Franz (Hans) Endler, SA cellist, composer and co-founder of the Stellenbosch music conservatory, dies in Pinelands.
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Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Education Africa, presidential and Premier Education Awards Pretoria, 22 November 1997
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Opening address by President Nelson Mandela at the Sub-Saharan Oil and Minerals Conference Johannesburg, 27 March 1995
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Fallen Walls: Prisoners of Conscience in South Africa and Czechoslovakia by Jan Karel Coetzee, Lynda Gilfillan, Otakar Hulec
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Sir John Francis Cradock, governor of the Cape in 1811 and following years, is born in Dublin, Ireland.
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Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border, and Arthur Goldreich, caught in the Rivonia raid esca
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Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, ethnologist, traveller, consul-general for the Orange Free State in the Netherlands and receive
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SA signs agreement with Swaziland in respect of cooperation and mutual assistance in the field of combating crime.
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Part of a prefabricated building of the Peninsula College for Advanced Technical Education is gutted and three explosives are f
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British Gen. Carrington reaches Mafeking and narrowly avoids being court-martialled for his inexplicable flig
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Moses Mauane (Malume) Kotane, political functionary of the SACP and compositor of the communist newspaper Umsebenzi, is born
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Robert Moffat (87), Scottish missionary near Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, dies in Tunbridge, Wales.
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The New National Party (NNP) in SA announces its dissolution and merger with ruling African National Congress (ANC).
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South Africa is denied landing and over flying rights by the United Arab Republic as from this date.
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Amelia Ruth Jones, current chief executive officer of the welfare organisation Community Chest Western Cape and executive direc
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Dr Cornelius Francois Visser (Vader Visser), educator and cultural leader who founded the Voortrekker Beweging, an Afrikaner yo
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A peace treaty with Tripoli, which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis, brings an end to the Barbary Wars.
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During a march organised by the Cape Town-based Muslim organisation People against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) a suspected dr
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Fred Vusi Khumalo, journalist and assistant editor of the Sunday paper Rapport, is born in Chesterville Township, Durban.
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Cyprian Bhekuzulu Nyangayezizwe KaDinuzulu, fourth son of Solomon KaDinuzulu and Paramount Chief of the Zulus for twenty years,
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The Convention of Pretoria is signed by a British commission and the Transvaal Triumvirate, whereby self government is restored
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Chief Buthelezi chief minister of KwaZulu and Mr Ramodike chief minister of Lebowa, boycott a meeting between non-independent h
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Public Security Amendment Act No 6, making further amendments to state security legislation and allowing for greater control by
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, outlines the government’s homelands policy in Pretoria. He de
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South Africa signs treaty with Malawi relating to the employment and documentation of Malawi nationals in South Africa.
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N.C. Havenga’s Afrikaner Party joins the National Party under Dr D.F. Malan and becomes the Herenigde National Party.
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The Security Council notes with great satisfaction the establishment of a united, non-racial and democratic Government of South
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South Africa announces it will sign the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and agree not to develop nuclear weapons.
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