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John Bird, civil servant, scholar and the father of historical study in Natal, is born in Rondebosch, Cape.
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, under chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu, starts its first formal hearings in East Londo
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The ANC and the PAC hold a joint conference in Harare (15-16 April), brokered by President Robert Mugabe.
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Riotous Assemblies and Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 15 commences. It contains banning powers over publications dee
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Dissident soldiers shoot dead Lesotho’s deputy prime minister and seize four cabinet ministers in a mutiny over a planned gover
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Siphiwe Mthimkulu and Topsie Madaka disappear in Port Elizabeth during the institution of lawsuit proceedings against the Minis
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Sir Donald Currie, shipping magnate and donor of the Currie Cup sporting trophy, dies in Sidmouth, Devon, England.
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Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.
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Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is born in Durban.
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C. Louis Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener
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Shepstone proclaims Transvaal a British colony despite Boer protests and hoists the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria. ;
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Kemp, in charge of the Lemmer, Du Toit, Liebenberg, Celliers, and Potgieter commandos (approximately
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Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.
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Following the announced secession by Biafra from Nigeria and the subsequent government backed invasion, the Biafran city Port H
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An agreement is reached between President F.W. de Klerk, Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and Inkatha’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi restr
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Adolphe Mabille, Swiss missionary, Sotho philologist and Bible translator, dies at Morija, Basutoland (Lesotho) where he was st
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Two white death sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) are noticed at Plettenberg Bay, Cape south coast, and bathing is prohibited.
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Moses Mauane (Malume) Kotane, political functionary of the South African Communist Party and compositor of the communist newspa
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Arthur Conan Doyle, medic during Anglo-Boer War 2 and subsequent author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, is born.
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Sefako Mapogo Makgatho, teacher, politician and journalist, born in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) district in 1861, dies in River
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The IFP withdraws from the inter-governmental forum, which provides for liaison between the central and provincial governments.
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Tribal clashes continue to take place in Pondoland (Transkei) between supporters and opponents of the African territorial autho
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Sierra Leone’s government and the country’s rebels agree to a cease-fire to end seven years of savage fighting.
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Minister of National Health and Population Development Rina Venter announces the abolishment of racial segregation in state hos
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The Zimbabwean government and the African National Congress blame South Africa for a blast, which damages the ANC’s diplomatic
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A committee of inquiry appointed by the Administrators of Natal and the Cape Province, declares that East Griqualand (claimed b
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Abraham Jacobus (Kootjie) van den Heever (58), SA author and younger brother of C.M. van den Heever, dies.
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Prof. Johannes du Plessis Scholtz, linguist, author and historian, is born in the Hottentots-Holland district, Cape Colony.
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