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A party of Transvaal transport riders consisting of Pieter Pretorius, younger brother of Andries Pretorius and uncle of Pres. M
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The National Manpower Commission (NMC) starts hearing evidence as part of its investigation into the consolidation and amendmen
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The first railway line in SA, between Durban and the Point, a distance of 3,2 km, is officially opened.
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The game between Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, and Saudi Arabia ends in a tie with the score 2-2.
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Somalia’s foreign minister and a representative of the faction that controls the country’s capital sign an agreement that calls
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União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola (UNITA, National Union for the Total Independence of Angola) rebels and A
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Johanna Catharina Jacoba Cornelius, full-time organiser and general secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, dies in Johannesbu
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Representation between Republic of South Africa and Self-Governing Territories Act (Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act) No
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Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is appointed as Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa.
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Andrew Kelehe, police detective from Mafikeng, wins the Comrades race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban in the second-fastest
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Testimony of James B. Mama and John Makue, Transvaal, before the South African Native Affairs Commission, October 7, 1904 [Extracts]
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Helgard Dewald Johannes Bodenstein, jurist, first secretary of external affairs in SA and editor of several law publications, i
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The Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, announces that the government has added an addition
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The town Andries Ohrigstad (now Ohrigstad) is founded, named after Trekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter and the Amsterdam m
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The four murderers of Amy Biehl, American exchange student, is granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Dr Georg Siegfried Johannes Kuschke, industrialist and president in 1970 of the Industrial Development Corporation, dies in Joh
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Bantu Holomisa is dismissed as Deputy Environment and Tourism Minister. His responsibilities are assigned to former ANC Youth L
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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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The monarchy in Tunis ends and the country becomes a republic with Habib ben Ali Bourguiba as first president.
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The first successful Caesarean is carried out in Cape Town. The lives of mother and baby are saved.
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Liberian President Samuel K Doe becomes virtual prisoner in presidential mansion as rebels besiege Monrovia and Doe’s 500-man s
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Egypt bombs and strikes major air base in Libya in second day of conflict between the two countries.
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Israeli airliner bound for Israel from Rome with forty-eight people aboard is hijacked and diverted to Algeria.
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The United Nations Security Council, taking into account the recommendations and conclusions of its Group of Experts, condemns
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André Huguenet, stage-name of Gerhardus Petrus Borstlap, SA actor, producer and author, dies in Bloemfontein in poverty.
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SA signs a declaration of intent on cooperation with the Russian Federation in the field of arts and culture.
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At a meeting between President Nelson Mandela and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Yasser Arafat, the two lead
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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces in the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly in Ulundi, that t
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Mangena Maaka Mokone, founder of the ‘Ethiopian Church’ in 1892 and political leader who strongly opposed racial segregation, i
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