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An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the
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Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van
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By this deadline for the receipt of applications for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission almost 8,000 applicatio
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An International Commission of Jurists report alleges the widespread use of force and torture by security forces on anti-aparth
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Gert Oosthuizen, Deputy Minister of Sport and Recreation in the Republic of South Africa since 10 May 2004, is born.
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A Liberian freighter rams a bridge in Florida’s Tampa Bay, collapsing part of the span (a 1,400-foot section) and plunging thir
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William H. Addison, first district surgeon of Pietermaritzburg, arrives with his wife and son in Port Natal aboard the Lalla Ro
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Miss Namibia, Michelle McLean, a six-foot-tall model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand, the first eve
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Afrikaans becomes one of the official languages of the Union of South Africa following the introduction and passing of a bill b
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The Industrial Conciliation Act empowers the Minister of Labour to reserve any job on a racial basis and orders the dissolution
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WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Sir Harold Alexander’s 18th Army Group captures Bizerte and Tunis. All that rema
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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow
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ANC secretary-general Alfred Nzo and SA Communist Party general secretary Joe Slovo address a rally near Soweto. Slovo tells th
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Irene Charnley, Executive Director of Johnnic, trustee of several funds and winner of the Businesswoman of the Year Award 2000,
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The Government states in Parliament that 18,000 persons have been arrested and detained since the proclamation of the emergency
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The Groote Schuur talks start (2-4 May) between the South African government and the ANC. They reach agreement on conditions fo
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Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher dies in Still Bay, Western Cape. She was a founder member of the Austin Robe
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Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan
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At the end of their talks, the ANC and the South African Government issue a joint statement, entitled "the Groote Schuur M
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Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan
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Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan
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Anglo-Boer War 2: An official report states that British columns have completely or partially destroyed 158 farms and an unknow
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Dumisani Dludla, trade unionist and General Secretary of the United Workers’ Union of SA (UWUSA), is born in Melmoth, Natal.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: An official report states that British columns have completely or partially destroyed 158 farms and an unknow
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The SA 6th Division crosses Brenta River and is then redirected to Milan in Italy in World War II.
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Father Michael Lapsley, a New Zealand-born Anglican priest, loses both hands and an eye in a letter-bomb explosion in Harare. F
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Eleven days after the killing of London policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, the siege of the Libyan embassy ends and thirty Libyans (d
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Louis Botha and James Barry Munnik Herzog form the nationalist United South African (or Unionist) Party, calling for South Afri
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The merger between Ashanti Goldfields and SA’s Anglo-Gold, approved by the Ghanaian government on 29 October 2003, becomes effe
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