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James Ngcanjini Limba, leader of the Church of Christ and highly regarded by Africans, dies in New Brighton, Eastern Cape.
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Simon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to advise the dissatisfied burghers on how to be
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The UN resumes food distribution in Mogadishu, Somalia, ten days after fighting between UN troops and those of warlord Mohammed
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon’s Mines and other adventure stories, mostly about Africa, is born in Norfolk, E
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Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1
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Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1
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WWII: The Second South African Division under Major-General H.B. Klopper surrenders and the German force under Gen. Rommel capt
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The Star newspaper mentions that hundreds of Black people are leaving the Witwatersrand, especially for Natal, and calls it an
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Frans Reinhard Bresler, official of the Dutch East India Company and landdros of Graaff-Reinet, is born in Cape Town.
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Princess Alexandrina Victoria aged 18, becomes Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland following the death of her uncle, Ki
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William Duncan Baxter and Bishop S.W. Lavis are the first receivers of the freedom of the City of Cape Town.
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About sixty armed burghers, revolting against the economic and Khoi-Khoi policy of the Company, occupy the drosdy in Swellendam
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The Minister of Justice and Police, J.T. Kruger, announces his decision to appoint a one-man judicial commission in the person
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More than a hundred Whites raid the Indian Resisters’ camp, pull down tents and smash camp stretchers. Some Resisters are injur
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Dr James Barry, British military surgeon and inspector-general of hospitals (later alleged to be a lady), arrives in Cape Town.
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Gregoire Boonzaier, SA landscape painter and son of caricaturist D.C. Boonzaier, is born in Cape Town. He died in 2005.
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Daily Dispatch reports that there was a shootout between Transkei police and two insurgents at Mzamba in July. A man was arrest
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The ‘Luthuli Combat Detachment’, comprising of ZAPU and ANC guerrillas, crosses the Zambezi into Rhodesia (30 July 31 July) at
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Dr. Raymond Hoffenberg of Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town and senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town Medical School,
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In the Geneva session of the United nations Economic and Social Council, an Argentinean resolution state that South Africa shal
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The SA rugby team plays for the first time against a team of the British Isles, and lose 0-4 in Port Elizabeth.
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The diggers on the diamond fields between the Vaal and the Harts Rivers proclaim Klipdrift a republic with Stafford Parker as f
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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, dies near King William’s Town. His first collection of poems, Imihobe
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Terror strikes the Atlanta Olympics as a pipe bomb explodes at the public Centennial Olympic Park, killing two people and injur
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The undeclared Korean War ends, after three years of fighting between North Korean and Chinese Communists against the United Na
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Henry Bathurst (72), British statesman and co-founder of the British Colonial Office, dies. The town of Bathurst (1820) was
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The engagement of Marike, first wife of Pres. F.W. de Klerk, to Johan Koekemoer, Johannesburg businessman and accountant, is an
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A powerful bomb, planted by Frederick John Harris, explodes in the Johannesburg station. One woman is killed and twenty-two (so
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South Africa and the Soviet Union sign a formal agreement in Johannesburg to promote trade between the two countries. The agree
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