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The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote

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US President George W Bush takes steps to restore normal trade and investment ties with Libya as a reward to Muammar Gaddafi fo

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Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de

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The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a &quot;mon

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French, Algerian, and Senegalese troops are to be sent to help put down the tribesmen revolt in Morocco. However, Germany has p

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WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack

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Anglo-Boer War 2: After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town.

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’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).

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Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.

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For a large tract of British Somaliland (Western Hawd) and a right for duty free imports through the port of Zeila, Emperor Men

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Mazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist is born in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal. His first poems were published in news

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Forces of South Africa’s General Louis Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa. The dates 11 May and 13 May a

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South Africa and Lesotho issue a joint statement that their respective territories are not to be used for acts of terrorism aga

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Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White Hous

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American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has been largely eradica

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Gunmen storm the military compound of President Eyadema in Loma, Togo, and kill his top military aide, then flee from governmen

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Minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok states in parliament that eighty-one people were charged under the Internal Security Act

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Six girls and three teachers of a primary school in Vereeniging die when the minibus in which they are travelling overturns bet

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The Minister of Water Affairs announces an ambitious scheme to harness the Orange River for power and irrigation at a cost of R

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Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.

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Dr William Nicol, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and Administrator of Transvaal from 1948-1958, is born in Robertson, CC

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Noby Ngombane, 38, head of the Free State governments policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier’s office, is shot de

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Declaration by about 1,500 Mayors calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African political prisoners pub

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Anglo-Boer War 2 Poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling, summoned from Cape Town by Lord Roberts, arrives in Bloemfontein to join th

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Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Worl

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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini hold a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agrees to join in German

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Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is found guilty in the Cape Supreme Court of embezzling

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A Defence Force spokesman confirms in Cape Town that South Africa is to stop supplying the United States and Britain with intel

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Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&eacut

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger and Pres. Steyn appoint Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil as general in Kroonstad during the So

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The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote

US President George W Bush takes steps to restore normal trade and investment ties with Libya as a reward to Muammar Gaddafi fo

Exiled Pan-Africanist Congress member Sam Chand and his family of four are shot dead in Botswana before a powerful explosion de

The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a &amp;quot;mon

French, Algerian, and Senegalese troops are to be sent to help put down the tribesmen revolt in Morocco. However, Germany has p

WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack

Anglo-Boer War 2: After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town.

’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).

Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.

For a large tract of British Somaliland (Western Hawd) and a right for duty free imports through the port of Zeila, Emperor Men

Mazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist is born in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal. His first poems were published in news

Forces of South Africa’s General Louis Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa. The dates 11 May and 13 May a

South Africa and Lesotho issue a joint statement that their respective territories are not to be used for acts of terrorism aga

Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White Hous

American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has been largely eradica

Gunmen storm the military compound of President Eyadema in Loma, Togo, and kill his top military aide, then flee from governmen

Minister of law and order Adriaan Vlok states in parliament that eighty-one people were charged under the Internal Security Act

Six girls and three teachers of a primary school in Vereeniging die when the minibus in which they are travelling overturns bet

The Minister of Water Affairs announces an ambitious scheme to harness the Orange River for power and irrigation at a cost of R

Buyelwa Patience Sonjica, Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.

Dr William Nicol, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and Administrator of Transvaal from 1948-1958, is born in Robertson, CC

Noby Ngombane, 38, head of the Free State governments policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier’s office, is shot de

Declaration by about 1,500 Mayors calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African political prisoners pub

Anglo-Boer War 2 Poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling, summoned from Cape Town by Lord Roberts, arrives in Bloemfontein to join th

Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Worl

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini hold a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agrees to join in German

Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is found guilty in the Cape Supreme Court of embezzling

A Defence Force spokesman confirms in Cape Town that South Africa is to stop supplying the United States and Britain with intel

Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&amp;eacut

Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger and Pres. Steyn appoint Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil as general in Kroonstad during the So

The discovery of a virus that may cause Aids, the fatal disease sweeping through the world and Africa, is hailed as a "mon

Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&eacut