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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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The home match between Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius, ends in a tie with no goals scored.
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The amnesty commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses applications for amnesty of a further seventy-nine AN
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Thousands of Liberians flee their homes amid fierce fighting between government troops and members of an ethnic faction.
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Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, is born in Lichtenburg, Tran
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Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood, teacher and founder of the South African Library for the Blind, dies in Grahamstown.
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The National Research Foundation (NRF) is established as autonomous body to provide services and grants to support postgraduate
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The National Research Foundation (NRF) is established as autonomous body to provide services and grants to support postgraduate
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The government imposes a one-year ban on all outdoor meetings except sports meetings and funeral gatherings in cemeteries.
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The National Union of South African Students (Nusas) and the South African National Students’ Congress (Sansco) launch a campai
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Naboth Monyadioe Moreleba Mokgatle, trade unionist, political activist and writer, is born in Saron, Phokeng, Rustenburg. He le
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John Christoffel Kannemeyer, expert in Afrikaans literature and author of several biographies of Afrikaans writers, is born in
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Sir James Rose-Innes retires as Chief Justice of the Union and is succeeded by Sir William Solomon.
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Gustav Bernhard August Gerdener, professor at the Theological Seminary in Stellenbosch and founder member of SABRA (South A Afr
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Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, arrives at the Cape.
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Negotiations between Nelson Mandela of the ANC and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to end violence in townships, fails.
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A United Nations official says South Africa and the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) have formally accepted an
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Referring to allegations that a vendetta is being conducted against churches and religious workers in SA, Prime Minister Vorste
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General J.B.M. Hertzog, as Prime Minister, forms a coalition government between the National party and the South African Party
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Winnie Mandela announces that she had instituted legal proceedings against the Minister of Safety and Security Sydney Mufamadi
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An Arab oil embargo against South Africa brings the prospects of rationing and the extension of conservation measures.
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250 persons demonstrate outside the South African embassy in Washington in protest against apartheid and President Reagan’s pol
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UNICEF says fighting and crop failures in southern Sudan have forced an unprecedented exodus of 200 000 people.
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Minister of Law and Order, Louis le Grange, announces a new series of directives for the protection of detainees.
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Geoffrey Hlabangane, chief executive officer and director of New Seasons Resources, Johannesburg, since 1999, is born in Middel
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Johannes Friedrich Wilhelm Grosskopf, author, newspaper editor and professor at the University of Stellenbosch, is born in Bloe
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