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Johannes van der Walt, member of the Ossewa-Brandwag (O.B.)and world renowned wrestler, who escaped from police detention after
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George Charles Gunn (Anton de Waal), composer of Afrikaans songs, co-worker of Danie Bosman and Nico Carstens, is born.
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Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and other African National Congress officials arrive in Natal at the start of an ANC "peace
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SA government opens “whites only” downtown districts of Johannesburg and Durban to all races in the first break with apartheid
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At the end of the third meeting between Mozambique and South Africa, in Maputo, a joint statement is released announcing that t
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Bishop Robert Gray arrives in South Africa and takes up his post as the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.
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Lord Charles Somerset (64), former governor at the Cape and direct descendent of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England from 1
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The Presidents of South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe meet in Cape Town. The five leaders exchange views on
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The MPLA government in Angola is recognised by most countries of the world. Foreign intervention is condemned, and the with
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Dr Hasmukh Gajjar, medical practitioner, former chair of the Vodacom Group and managing director of various IT companies, is bo
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Regulations are proclaimed for the layout of a third Voortrekker town, the first in Natal, named after Piet Retief and Gerrit M
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The Anglican church joins the growing confrontation between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Most Rev. W
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Patricia de Lille, former member of the PAC and current leader of the Independent Democrats, is born in Beaufort West.
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Kurds occupy and take hostages at the Greek embassies in several European countries to protest Kurd leader Abdullah Ocalan’s ca
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Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.
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Cecil John Rhodes (48), diamond magnate and premier of the Cape Colony, dies in Muizenberg. (Burne: Chronicle of the World;
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British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’. Warden and his family take up res
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US President Bill Clinton, on a visit to Rwanda, acknowledges that the United States and the world failed to protect Rwandans f
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William John Burchell, botanist and explorer of the South African interior, reaches Graaff-Reinet, which he has left in January
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Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, British field marshal during World War 2 and commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa, dies
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Egypt’s state security court finds Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, and sentences
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The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre
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Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn
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Indians in SA start a protest under Mohandas Gandhi against new legislation forcing all male members to carry passbooks and hav
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Publication of declaration for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African Political Prisoners signed by over 4,0
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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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Lambertus and Abraham, eldest sons of Jan van Riebeeck, leave with skipper Douwe Aukes for their uncle, Abraham Quevellerius in
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Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg, editor of De Volksstem and founding member of the Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (Academy for Sci
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Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded
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