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Peter McLean Pollock, SA cricket player, father of Shaun Pollock and brother of Graeme Pollock, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
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SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE NELSON MANDELA AWARD FOR HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS Cape Town, 6 March 1995
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OPENING SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE BUSINESS INITIATIVE AGAINST CORRUPTION AND CRIME Kempton Park, 15 August 1995
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A statement issued simultaneously in Lusaka and Salisbury, gives details of proposals agreed to after two days of talks between
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The fourth rugby test match between SA and France ends in a draw with 6 points each. SA wins the series 2-1.
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Tiyo Soga, missionary and first ordained Black minister who published a Xhosa translation of the first part of Bunyan’s Pilgrim
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Chad, formally known as Tchad and the first of four territories, which had formed French Equatorial Africa, achieves independen
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The Theron Commission Report is discussed at a meeting between the Prime Minister and the sixteen-member Liaison Committee of t
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A delegation of the South African Council of Churches meets the Prime Minister and other government leaders, following calls by
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Elands River: British Gen. Carrington retreats to the Marico River and Zeerust, Western Transvaal
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Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk, elected as ‘Chairman’ of the territory south and north of the Harts River, issues a proclamation
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Sir Lionel Phillips, President of the Chamber of Mines and developer of deep level mining, is born in London.
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WWI: Germany invades Belgium and when London’s ultimatum to Berlin to withdraw expires at midnight, Britain declares war on G
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SA signs agreement with Namibia regarding the provision of technical and administrative personnel by the government of South Af
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USSR’s Mikhail Gorbachev says the collapse of apartheid is inevitable and calls for a settlement that would benefit all races.
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At least twelve people are killed in rebel attacks on a police station, airport and the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC)
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Dr Allan Boesak, minister to the Piketberg congregation of the World Congregation of Reformed Churches and former anti-aparthei
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Jacobus Johannes Uys, Voortrekker pioneer to whom the English inhabitants of Grahamstown handed a Statebybel when he and his co
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Burundi government reportedly continues to execute Hutu tribe members, and about 25 000 Hutu refugees are reported fleeing to o
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Godfrey Nakene, educationist and school principal in whose honour Orlando High School was renamed Nakene High School, is born i
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The match in Johannesburg between the Springbok rugby team and the British Lions ends in a tie with 3 points each.
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Offices of the Minister of National (Black) Education, Stoffel van der Merwe, and that of Deputy Constitutional Development Min
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SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the introduction of a system of levies for certain cereals and related products.
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Representatives of striking security guards and industry employers reach an agreement to end the strike at the Commission for C
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Bernard Mizeki (known as Mamiyeri Mitseki Gwambe) Anglican missionary and African martyr is murdered at his mission in Marandel
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A Zimbabwean student, threatening an air hostess with a syringe and hypodermic needle, demands access to the cockpit of an SAA
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The United Nations General Assembly proclaims that South-West Africa shall henceforth be known as ‘Namibia’ and condemns South
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The Minister of Economic Affairs, J.C. Heunis, announces that the government has agreed to increase the education and industria
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The Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, first civilian hospital in Cape Town, erected by physician Samuel Silverthorne Bailey, is open
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