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Prof. Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu, SA ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and former SA Minister of Education
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A combined force of British soldiers and armed Blacks attempts to surround General C.H. Muller’s commando, commanded in his abs
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WWII: East Africa. Naval bases of Antsirañana and Diego Suarez, Madagascar are surrendered to the British by Vichy forces.
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The ‘Volksraad’ of the ZAR gathers for the last time in Pretoria and is addressed by Pres. Paul Kruger.
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The British Lions rugby team leaves London to begin a controversial twenty-two-match tour of South Africa and Rhodesia.
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Prof. François Ernst Johannes Malherbe, lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and literary critic, is born in the distric
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The MEC of Gauteng unveils a commemorative stone at the site of the White and Black concentration camps at Heidelberg.
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The MEC of Gauteng unveils a commemorative stone at the site of the White and Black concentration camps at Heidelberg.
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The Prime Minister meets Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, discusses the revival of the Highland Water Scheme and emphasis
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The Prime Minister meets Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, discusses the revival of the Highland Water Scheme and emphasis
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Johanna Suzanna Holtzhausen (88), coloratura and member of the Music Committee of the FAK (Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Org
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The Prime Minister meets Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, discusses the revival of the Highland Water Scheme and emphasis
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Johanna Suzanna Holtzhausen (88), coloratura and member of the Music Committee of the FAK (Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Org
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Marimuthu Pragalathan Naiker, journalist and politician born in Durban in 1920, dies in an aeroplane during a flight between Lo
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Ten people, including a policeman, are killed and four injured when violence breaks out at a funeral service for Moses Khumalo,
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Pandemonium breaks loose when Sepp Blatter, the chairperson of Fifa, the soccer world governing body, and his entourage enters
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Internal Security Act No 32, empowering Government to declare an organisation unlawful and to control the distribution of publi
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Jac J. Brits, Afrikaans author of mainly juvenile fiction and chairman of the ‘Afrikaanse Skrywerskring’, is born in the distri
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Hijackers seeking to draw attention to the economic and political strife in Ethiopia divert a passenger plane to Khartoum, Suda
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D
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Seven people die and fourteen are injured when a car bomb, planted by the AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging), explodes in Breë
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Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, receives an honorary M.A. Degree from the University of Fort Hare i
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Benjamin John Peter Tyamzashe, Xhosa composer and musician, receives an honorary M.A. Degree from the University of Fort Hare i
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Pieter Johannes Hendrik Coetzee, cultural reformer after the Rebellion in 1914 and World War I, is born in Burgersdorp, CC.
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The government, the ANC and the Freedom Front sign an agreement establishing a framework for a separate state for Whites (’Acco
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Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born.
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After a UN Security Council vote to continue sanctions against Libya, Britain is accused of "a hidden hatred and an histor
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Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born i
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