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Anglo-Boer War 2: Abraham Esau, Calvinia Coloured leader and martyr who aided the British Imperial cause, is brutally assault
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President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela jointly accept the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Pri
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Three draft Bills revising and streamlining South Africa’s security laws are placed before Parliament, their object being to re
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Dr Chris Albertyn (89), former chief executive of “Nasionale Pers” and editor of the Afrikaanse Kinderensiklopedie dies in Klei
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Patricia Nora Zenani Fakude-Nkuna, managing director of Bohlabela Wheels and member of the Rural Women’s Initiative (1994-1999)
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Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, community leader, member of the Cape City Council (1904-1940) and Cape Provincial Council (1914-1940),
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The Confederation of Senegambia between Senegal and the Gambia is formally launched. The federation was intended to promote coo
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Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is broken. Nyasaland (now Malawi) moves towards independence under the leadership of Dr Ha
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S. le Roux Marais (Stephanus), organist, teacher, pioneer of the art song (lieder) and composer of numerous songs in Afrikaans
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In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k
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Old Mutual announces its intention to note shares on the London stock exchange and four stock exchanges in Africa.
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The government decides to close The Post and The Sunday Post because they have become media for communist viewpoints.
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Gazankulu homeland holds elections for members of its legislative assembly, which has forty-three elected and forty-three nomin
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Three leaders from the IFP, Frank Malalose, national chairman and the Premier of Kwazulu-Natal, Ziba Jiyane, Secretary-General
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South African politician and author of "Jock of the Bushveld," Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, dies at the age of 69.
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Colonel Arthur Alfred Lynch is found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death for leading the "Irish Commando" a
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President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are awarded the Unesco Peace Prize. They received the prize on 3 February.
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Chief Buthelezi rejects the President’s call to resume participation in the constitution-making process and returns to the Cons
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Andries Dreyer, missionary, church historian and first archivist of the DRC in the Cape, is born in Cape Town.
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Seven people are killed and about sixty-seven injured when about 800 striking South African Transport Services (SATS) workers,
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Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields, including the first Afrikaans films, is born in
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Phatho, chief of the mixed XhosaHottentot (Khoi-Khoi) people the Gqunukwebe and other Xhosa chiefs attend a great gathering of
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Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, dies in Cape Town.
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Louis Buys, chief director of disaster management at the department of provincial and local government, says the South African
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The planning and programming divisional manager of the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), Mr Danie Schoeman, says that
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Frank Chikane, former secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches and current politician, is born in Johannesbur
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, OFS.
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Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies in Seshego, Pieters
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Voortrekker leaders Andries Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit (Gert) Maritz, each with his own men, leave for Western Transvaal to p
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