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Cornelis Jacob Langenhoven, SA author, i.a. “Die Stem”, advocate and editor of Het Zuid-Westen, is born in Ladismith, C.P.
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SA international acclaimed swimmer and world record holder, Penny Heyns, is born. This date might be wrong. Several sources giv
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Police find Frans Maluka, Eric Sambo and Patrick Sigudla all allegedly linked to criminal activities around the area, burnt to
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International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women of South Africa and Namibia was observed for the first time.
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The London Convention is ratified by the Volksraad. It restored the name Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek and did not mention Britis
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Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C
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A new deal for urban Blacks is announced in Pretoria (7-8 August) by the Minister of Bantu Administration and by the Minister o
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Tygerpoort (Venterskroon) takes place between the British under Lord Methuen and the Boers unde
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The Battle of Muizenberg takes place during the Napoleontic War when British troops disembark at Muizenberg and move towards Ca
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South African golfer Gary Player wins his second PGA Championship with a two-stroke victory over Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Remnants of the notorious Steinaecker’s Horse, led by Capt. Francis and fighting on British side, are surroun
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Frederick William Fitzsimons, director of the Port Elizabeth museum for more than thirty years and pioneer of school museums in
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The Military Council for Justice and Democracy overthrows President Taya of Mauritania in a coup, while he is in Saudi Ara
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The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, to which SA is a party,
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Prince James Mahlangu and Mr Fanie Fanyana brings an urgent application in the Transvaal Provincial Division of the Supreme Cou
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Eleven residents are killed in Esikhaweni when unknown killers in balaclavas and armed with pump action shotguns fire at reside
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Eleven residents are killed in Esikhaweni when unknown killers in balaclavas and armed with pump action shotguns fire at reside
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UWC students convene a meeting to express solidarity with the students of Soweto and decide to embark on a boycott of classes.
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Captain Piletji Sebola says in Pretoria they are investigating a charge of murder and about ten of assault in connection with t
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The Ciskei is given self-government. Chief Justice Mabandla becomes Chief Minister, and the heads of the territory’s six depart
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John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour
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Willem Eduard Bok, government commissioner and sub-editor of De Volksstem is born in the Netherlands. Boksburg was later na
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Allen Frances Gardiner, naval officer and missionary in inter alia Port Natal, is born in Berkshire, England. His last post w
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The Chairman of Armscor announces that under an agreement with a French aviation company, Mirage III and F jet fighters will be
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Dr William Guybon Atherstone (84), medical practitioner and scientist who was probably the first to use an anaesthetic in any B
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Angolan, Cuban, South African and United States officials meet in Cairo, in search of independence for Namibia in tandem with a
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Dr Izak David du Plessis, author, poet and chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, is born in Philipstown.
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Khedive Ismael (Ismael Pasha) is deposed and replaced by his son Tewfik Pasha due to the considerable international pressure ov
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Fourteen teachers, all from a primary school in Montsioa, near Mafikeng, are killed when their taxi burst a tyre and collide wi
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