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Heated discussion occurs at a cabinet meeting and President Mandela casts doubt on the commitment of second Deputy President F.
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In a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) revelation, General Georg Meiring is implicated with more than sixty officers an
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The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
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South African and Saudi Arabian envoys hold talks with Colonel Gaddafi to try to resolve the Lockerbie checkmate.
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The French explorer, Marion du Fresne, discovers Marion Island and Prince Edward Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
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Jan F.E. Celliers (Johannes Francois Elias, S.A. poet, writer and dramatist, is born. He died on 1 June 1940.
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John Tengo Jabavu, the second Black matriculant in South Africa and well-known journalist, is born near Healdtown.
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Herero Revolt in German South West Africa: Omaruru is relieved after a fierce battle between Franke and the Ovaherero.
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Prof. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, is born in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia.
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A powerful explosion in Lagos, Nigeria, destroys a bank, killing thirty-three people. Rioting and looting break out as hund
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Richard Mzamane Mabaso, SA artist, is born in Alexandra, Johannesburg. He started drawing and carving without any instruc
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An Air Senegal plane carrying European tourists crashes in Senegal, killing at least twenty people and injuring thirty.
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Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.
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Eugene Terre Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and nine other members are arrested for staging a riot o
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Niger’s first democratically elected president, Mahamane Ousmane, is ousted in a coup and army Col Barre Mainassara Ibrahim tak
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Themba James Maseko, managing director of Damelin Education Group and former director-general of Gauteng Department of Educatio
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Robey Leibbrandt, Olympic boxer and staunch supporter of the Ossewabrandwag (an Afrikaner patriotic movement), is born in Potch
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The away game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius ends in a tie with the score 1-1.
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Prime Minister John Vorster announces that a first-ever multi-racial commission will investigate the political and socio-econom
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At its eightieth anniversary celebration in Bloemfontein, the ANC presents its post-apartheid policies and launches its elector
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Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields including the first Afrikaans films, marries Gide
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Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British South African statesman and administrator of native affairs, who was responsible for the anne
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General Bantu Holomisa, who ousted Stella Sigcau in a coup, appoints himself as the Transkei’s military and government chief.
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James Archbell, retired missionary, prints the first edition of the weekly newspaper The Natal Independent and General Advertis
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Right-wing guerrillas ambush a train near Mozambique’s western border, killing at least twenty-two people and injuring seventy-
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A flight instructor and an Italian student die when their Piper Cherokee crashes at Boesmansrivier in the Eastern Cape.
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Establishment of Military Council Act No 1, establishing Military Council and a Council of Ministers to rule the Transkei until
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Eleven residents are killed by vigilantes in clashes between ‘Fathers’ and ‘Comrades’, following the killing of a community cou
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Ralph Sipho Luthuli, chief executive officer of Tower Outsourcing and director of Azaguys Advertising, is born in Oudtshoorn.
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