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The coldest day in Pretoria in 108 years with a minimum of –3,6 and a maximum of 7,5 degrees Centigrade.
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Pedi Chief Sekhukhune’s followers send a force of 140 against Chief Kgolane and his followers in their stronghold, Masehleng. K
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Voortrekker leader Commandant Andries Hendrik Potgieter obtains the territory between the Vet and Vaal rivers from the Bataung
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Ellen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and leading executive member of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SA
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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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Moses Mayekiso, general secretary of NUMSA, and four others, are arrested for allegedly running ‘people’s courts’ in Alexandra,
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An Egyptian and three Kenyans, along with four other truck drivers, are taken hostage by a militant Iraqi group.
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Katanga proclaims itself a republic and secedes from the central Congo government under the leadership of its president, Moise
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Interview with Xolelwa Kashe-Katiya and Ngqabutho Madida from SAHO: Bush Radio on Africa Day 25 May 2012
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Max, a 180 kg gorilla, is shot in his neck and shoulder by a robber who got into his cage.
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The ANC sent a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk and demanded an end violent police action.
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General Constand Viljoen reassures RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama that the agreement between South Africa and Mozambique to sett
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Ferdinand Postma, professor of the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in Burgersdorp and later Potchefstroom, is born
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Dr Stephanus Petrus Erasmus Boshoff, Afrikaner cultural leader, linguist and director of education, is born on Vaalbank, distri
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The Memoirs of Paul Kruger, Chapter 12, (On the outbreak of war and the barbarity of the English)
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Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals? Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner
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The four former ministers sentenced to death for treason, murder, and an attempted coup by Joseph-Désiré Mobutu’s
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The Prime Minister, accompanied by Dr. Hilgard Muller, visits Portugal (3-7 June), and holds several meetings with the Portugue
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Archaeologist Muhannam Zakaria Goneim and his team finally break through into the sarcophagus chamber of Sakhemkhet’s step pyra
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Patrick Makau, ANC/MK, and his child (9) are killed in a bomb attack on two houses in Manzini, Swaziland.
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The ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front and its allies score an overwhelming victory in elections for a ne
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SA signs treaty with Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe relative to the establishment of the Limpopo Basin Permanent Technical C
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha persuades a combined gathering of the Provincial and Parliamentary caucuses of the National Party to
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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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Anthony Mnoneleli Bam, current professor of economic development studies and member of several Black empowerment boards, is bor
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The SABC launches Africa’s first news channel, aimed at providing an African perspective on domestic and international stories.
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Pasteur Bizimungu, Rwanda’s post-genocide president, is sentenced to fifteen years in jail for embezzlement and inciting violen
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The South African Black Alliance (SABA) (7-8 June) condemns the proposed composition of the President’s Council and the nomin
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Dr Monwabisi Bevan Goqwana, MEC for Health, Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature and former specialist physician at Umtata Hospi
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