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Prof. Stephanus Petrus Engelbrecht, Pretoria professor of theology and cultural leader, is born in the district of Standerton,
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Elsabé Antoinette Murray Steytler (Elsa Joubert), SA author and winner of several awards, is born in Paarl, CP.
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The first branch of the Suid-Afrikaanse Vrouefederasie (SAVF), a women’s welfare and cultural organisation which comes into bei
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Fighting between Nigeria’s Hausa and Yoruba tribes leaves 100 dead in Lagos. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria News, 18 October.
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Two US surveillance planes arrive over Egyptian airspace to demonstrate increased US support for Egyptian and Sudanese security
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The Netherlands Permanent Representative at the United Nations announces that his government has banned the export and transit
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Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, father of Tanzanian independence and a symbol of Africa’s hopes as it emerged from t
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Moses Mbheki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, is born in Thornhill, Pietermar
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Dr Carl W.L. Pappe (59), botanist, physician and curator of the South African Museum, dies in Cape Town.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British execute J.W.G. Jansen and one Rautenbach in Vryburg by hanging, for horse theft.
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SA signs agreement with the government of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar regarding merchant shipping and related maritim
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SA signs agreement with the government of the Democratic Republic of Madagascar regarding merchant shipping and related maritim
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Ishmael Booker Mompati, teacher, musician and composer, dies of a heart attack while conducting his school choir during a compe
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A delegation of British Trade Union leaders carry out an intensive programme of visits and talks (7-20 October), investigating
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The elected leaders in the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council reject the government’s emergency mini-budget and demand th
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Mabhuza Simeon Gininda, educationist, theologian and ANC member of parliament, Government of National Unity (1994-), is born in
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Humphrey Mbuyiseni Khoza, current chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other compani
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SA signs multilateral agreement with the governments of Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei for the avoidance of double
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President P.W. Botha instructs the Houses of Representatives and Delegates to vote on the controversial Group Areas Amendments
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The World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Geneva, bans South Africa from further meetings of the organisation and is
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In the Cape Town Supreme Court a British journalist, David Rabkin, his wife, Susan, and a university lecturer, Jeremy Cronin, a
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SA signs a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the voluntary repatriation and
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Riots continue, 4-5 September. The youth come out in the Coloured townships. Schools, libraries and a magistrate’s court are se
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An explosion occurs at the Department of Internal Affairs, Harrison Street, Johannesburg, injuring four people and causing dama
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Premier H.F. Verwoerd assumes duty as Prime Minister and announces an intensification of the apartheids policy in parliament.
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Dr Martin Heinrich (Hinrich) Karl Lichtenstein (77), physician, naturalist and explorer of the interior of South Africa, dies o
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Tinashe Washington Nengomasha, Zimbabwean international football player who played for Kaizer Chiefs and was winner of the Kick
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Sir Harry Smith proclaims the territory between the Orange and Vaal Rivers British territory, discounting protests by Voortrekk
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Dr Andries P. Treurnicht, Minister of Public Works, Statistics and Tourism, is unanimously re-elected as the National Party’s l
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