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It is announced that efforts by Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the So

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse, English nurse who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free Sate Republics during the South Afric

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British, under General Warren, surrenders to General Botha at Spioenkop. At least 1 000 British and sixty

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A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern Cape and confirm

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Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says more than seventeen million people were arrested under influx control laws between

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The first batch of Resisters who cross the Natal Transvaal border are arrested and given one month’s suspended sentence each.

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The Cape Corps, consisting of thirty-two officers and 1022 soldiers, leaves for East Africa during the First World War.

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Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb

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The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i

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South Africa radio reports that C. Barnard and A.K. Myburgh have been sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment each for their par

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A newspaper in Mozambique reports that hurricanes and floods in the past two weeks have caused twenty-nine deaths, total destru

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Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.

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Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police

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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that the ‘72-hour curfew’ will be lifted on a trial b

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At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants

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Precious Chiliza (6), Nkanyiso Sithole (9) and Noluthando Mkhezi (11) are killed when sixteen gunmen open fire on the car of Ab

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The Star reports that four people were detained in the Transkei after a shootout between police and suspected insurgents in the

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Andrew and Lady Ann Barnard leaves Portsmouth, England, for the Cape, where Andrew was appointed secretary to the new English g

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Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz discovers that he has sailed past the southernmost point of Africa and puts ashore in the

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President Thabo Mbeki and several other heads of states attend the inauguration of the new president of Mozambique, Armando Gue

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People are encouraged to protect our natural wetlands because they are the special habitat of certain living species and protec

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Egypt and Syria proclaims the union of their two countries in a state to be known as ‘The United Arab Republic’.

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President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu

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David Draper, prospector and geologist is born in Cape Town. He discovered underground water at Zuurbekom in 1898, whereby freq

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A Liberian freighter rams a bridge in Florida’s Tampa Bay, collapsing part of the span (a 1,400-foot section) and plunging thir

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William H. Addison, first district surgeon of Pietermaritzburg, arrives with his wife and son in Port Natal aboard the Lalla Ro

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Miss Namibia, Michelle McLean, a six-foot-tall model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand, the first eve

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Afrikaans becomes one of the official languages of the Union of South Africa following the introduction and passing of a bill b

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The Industrial Conciliation Act empowers the Minister of Labour to reserve any job on a racial basis and orders the dissolution

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WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Sir Harold Alexander’s 18th Army Group captures Bizerte and Tunis. All that rema

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It is announced that efforts by Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the So

Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse, English nurse who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free Sate Republics during the South Afric

Anglo-Boer War 2: The British, under General Warren, surrenders to General Botha at Spioenkop. At least 1 000 British and sixty

A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern Cape and confirm

Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says more than seventeen million people were arrested under influx control laws between

The first batch of Resisters who cross the Natal Transvaal border are arrested and given one month’s suspended sentence each.

The Cape Corps, consisting of thirty-two officers and 1022 soldiers, leaves for East Africa during the First World War.

Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb

The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i

South Africa radio reports that C. Barnard and A.K. Myburgh have been sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment each for their par

A newspaper in Mozambique reports that hurricanes and floods in the past two weeks have caused twenty-nine deaths, total destru

Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.

Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police

The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that the ‘72-hour curfew’ will be lifted on a trial b

At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants

Precious Chiliza (6), Nkanyiso Sithole (9) and Noluthando Mkhezi (11) are killed when sixteen gunmen open fire on the car of Ab

The Star reports that four people were detained in the Transkei after a shootout between police and suspected insurgents in the

Andrew and Lady Ann Barnard leaves Portsmouth, England, for the Cape, where Andrew was appointed secretary to the new English g

Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz discovers that he has sailed past the southernmost point of Africa and puts ashore in the

President Thabo Mbeki and several other heads of states attend the inauguration of the new president of Mozambique, Armando Gue

People are encouraged to protect our natural wetlands because they are the special habitat of certain living species and protec

Egypt and Syria proclaims the union of their two countries in a state to be known as ‘The United Arab Republic’.

President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu

David Draper, prospector and geologist is born in Cape Town. He discovered underground water at Zuurbekom in 1898, whereby freq

A Liberian freighter rams a bridge in Florida’s Tampa Bay, collapsing part of the span (a 1,400-foot section) and plunging thir

William H. Addison, first district surgeon of Pietermaritzburg, arrives with his wife and son in Port Natal aboard the Lalla Ro

Miss Namibia, Michelle McLean, a six-foot-tall model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand, the first eve

Afrikaans becomes one of the official languages of the Union of South Africa following the introduction and passing of a bill b

The Industrial Conciliation Act empowers the Minister of Labour to reserve any job on a racial basis and orders the dissolution

WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Sir Harold Alexander’s 18th Army Group captures Bizerte and Tunis. All that rema