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Samuel Silverthorne Bailey, surgeon and hospital pioneer in SA, marries Hester Aletta van Reenen, daughter of J.G. (Jan) van Re
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Sir William Cornwallis Harris, traveller, hunter and renowned artist, arrives in Algoa Bay from where he sets out on a hunting
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Police fire tear gas at unruly fans during a World Cup qualifying soccer game between Zimbabwe and South Africa, setting off a
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Douglas Hurd, UK Foreign Secretary, on three-day visit to SA, meets De Klerk, Mandela and PAC President Clarence Makwetu.
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Angolan news agency Angop reports that South African troops, backed by planes, tanks and artillery, used chemical weapons in at
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The largest organised trek to East Africa, under Jan van Rensburg, consisting of seventy families with forty-seven wagons and s
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Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.
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Boris Becker (17) of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA on Wimbledon and becomes the youngest ever tennis champion.
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A number of people are injured in a bomb explosion at a taxi and bus terminal in Johannesburg. Right wing complicity is suspect
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Robert McBride, ANC member who planted a bomb in Magoo’s Bar, Durban, and later became Ekurhuleni metro police chief, is born i
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Congolese President Joseph Kabila and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni meet for first face-to-face peace talks in Tanzania as
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Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan, is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto.
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The Sierra Leone government imposes a ban on all trade and commerce with South Africa, as a protest against its apartheid polic
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Fighting breaks out as a riotous crowd on the Johannesburg market square is confronted by police and mounted soldiers during th
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Susanna Helena Kok, medical missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church and authority on leprosy who worked mainly in Nigeria, is b
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Governor Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon leaves the Cape. He was popular with the colonists and improved conditions of
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Countries across Africa, South America and Central Asia express disappointment at a US decision to cut off military aid to doze
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William Rantoa and Kgosimang Mafora, members of the pro-Bophuthatswana faction, are killed when gunmen open fire on them at a b
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Cosatu, Saccola and the minister of manpower of the F.W. de Klerk cabinet agree in principle to establish a national negotiatio
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Cosatu, Saccola and the minister of manpower of the F.W. de Klerk cabinet agree in principle to establish a national negotiatio
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Stephen Gregory Naidoo, prelate, canon lawyer and critic of apartheid, dies in London. He was appointed archbishop of Cape Town
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The Chamber of Mines of South Africa announces wage increases of fifteen percent and twenty-eight percent respectively, for Bla
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The constitution of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) is adopted at the inaugural conference and Steve Biko is el
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Jacob Daniël du Toit (Totius) (76), SA theologian, poet and co-translator of the Bible into Afrikaans, dies in Pretoria.
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Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, and son of Walter Sisulu, is arrested under
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The Belgian Congo becomes the independent Republic of the Congo, with Joseph Kasavubu as president and Patrice Lumumba as prime
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Speech on the installation of professor Bundy as Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand Johannesburg, 25 March 1998
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Speech at a luncheon for delegates to the International Iron and Steel Institute (IISI) board meeting Cape Town, 23 March 1998
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SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT A LUNCH HOSTED BY KADIN (INDONESIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY) Jakarta, 15 July 1997
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