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More than 200 South African religious leaders representing the Christian, Moslem, Jewish and Hindu faiths, decide at the end of
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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to
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WWII: North Africa. Charles de Gaulle and Henri Honoré Giraud set up the Committee of National Liberation in Algiers to
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Vlakfontein (the present day Derby), Gen. Kemp attacks Brigadier-Gen. Dixon and captures the field guns. D
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Louis Botha visits Johannesburg two days before British occupation and asks the residents not to resist
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The peace proposals, as approved by the British Cabinet, are wired to Lord Milner and Lord Kitchener.
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Sibusiso Vilane, a game ranger with dual South African and Swazi nationality reaches the summit of Mount Everest, where he plan
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Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee
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Outgoing North West premier Popo Molefe is quitting formal politics to give more attention to his "personal health and fam
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Business Day reports that two Ciskei security policemen were killed and one injured in April in a shootout near Alice, Ciskei,
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A Group Areas Amendment Bill introduced on 7 March 1982 and enacted on 21 April, maintains the existing commitment to the princ
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The Coloured schools’ boycott is joined by pupils at a number of Indian schools in Pretoria and Natal. Black Consciousness grou
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Johannes Mashego (26) dies in police custody in Parys, OFS. His relatives report extensive bruising and swollen face upon ident
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Me Epainette Mbeki, businesswomen and community worker in Idutywa, Eastern Cape, receives the Order of the Baobab for her servi
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Seventeen Greek tourists and an Egyptian tour guide are killed by gunmen in Cairo. Another fifteen are injured, three criticall
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Ken Oosterbroek, photographer for The Star, is killed when he and several other journalists are caught in the crossfire while c
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A police officer, WPC Yvonne Fletcher, is killed and ten people injured after shots were fired from the Libyan People’s Bureau
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Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant and leader of the burghers who drove Landdros Maynier away in 1795, is born. Van
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O.H.M. Chabane, MRC for Public Works, Northern Province Provincial Government and founder member of AZASO, is born. He was arre
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Prof. W.S. Logemann, professor in Dutch, French, German and history at the Victoria College in Stellenbosch, is born in Haarl
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Maggie Laubser, SA painter and receiver of several awards, is born on the farm Bloublommetjieskloof in the district of Malmesbu
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Merchant Jan van Riebeeck requests in a letter to the Council of XVII (Lords 17) a salary increase and express his disappointme
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The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Netherlands, defines the 1 000-km shared border between Ethiopia and Eritr
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A Zimbabwe court rules that the government and police must bring an end to Black squatters’ occupations of White-owned farms.
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Judge Marthinus Theunis Steyn (Theunie) (77), SA judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa (Nami
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Molton Paseka Ncholo, executive chairman of Khumo Bathong Holdings and member of the board of the SA Mining Development Associa
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Nomatyala Hangana, Deputy Minister of Provincial and Local Government of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is b
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Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala.
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Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala.
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