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WWII: Dan Pienaar gains distinction in an attack on the Italian outpost of El Wak and is awarded the Distinguished Service Orde

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on death row, inc

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A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy

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Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa

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Following the elections, ten new senators are chosen and appointed by the Prime Minister, on the same day that the electoral co

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It is announced that talks between Government officials and an ANC delegation led by Nelson Mandela will open in Cape Town on 1

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James Sebe Moroka, medical doctor, landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the ANC in 1949, is born in Th

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Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for &quot;blasphemous libels on Cape ladies&quot; and is sentenced to beg thei

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The creation of a community of separate and sovereign states is laid down as the official policy of the National Party in its e

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Sir Robert N. Kotze (82), SA mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines and who was mainly responsible f

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Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping

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SA golf player and world number three, Ernie Els, scores his second victory in seven days after his third Dubai Desert Classic

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Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of

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Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter

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Minister of Education and Culture Piet Clase, says in parliament that on the tenth school day of 1989, the number of African, C

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The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid resumes its meetings and decides to draft an appeal to the Se

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A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW

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Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al

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The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been

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Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt with an assegai and have stolen

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Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,

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A protest meeting and march against the proposed name change of the city of Pretoria to Tshwane is held on Church Square, Preto

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The Government’s Custom and Excise office announces that South Africa’s trade surplus widened to R969 million in April from R87

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Pallo Jordan, Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born in Kroonstad, OFS.

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Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania. He died on 6 Jan. 1995.

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Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure,

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Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric

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Dick King, a 29-year-old wagon driver, and his 16-year-old servant, Ndongeni, leave Durban on horseback for Grahamstown on an e

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The western wing of Munitoria burns down and 5 000 municipal workers are requested by authorities to stay away from work the ne

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Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k

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WWII: Dan Pienaar gains distinction in an attack on the Italian outpost of El Wak and is awarded the Distinguished Service Orde

Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on death row, inc

A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy

Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa

Following the elections, ten new senators are chosen and appointed by the Prime Minister, on the same day that the electoral co

It is announced that talks between Government officials and an ANC delegation led by Nelson Mandela will open in Cape Town on 1

James Sebe Moroka, medical doctor, landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the ANC in 1949, is born in Th

Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for &amp;quot;blasphemous libels on Cape ladies&amp;quot; and is sentenced to beg thei

The creation of a community of separate and sovereign states is laid down as the official policy of the National Party in its e

Sir Robert N. Kotze (82), SA mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines and who was mainly responsible f

Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping

SA golf player and world number three, Ernie Els, scores his second victory in seven days after his third Dubai Desert Classic

Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of

Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter

Minister of Education and Culture Piet Clase, says in parliament that on the tenth school day of 1989, the number of African, C

The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid resumes its meetings and decides to draft an appeal to the Se

A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW

Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al

The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been

Casper Brinkman brings the news that the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi clan) have killed Symon in’t Velt with an assegai and have stolen

Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,

A protest meeting and march against the proposed name change of the city of Pretoria to Tshwane is held on Church Square, Preto

The Government’s Custom and Excise office announces that South Africa’s trade surplus widened to R969 million in April from R87

Pallo Jordan, Minister of Arts and Culture of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born in Kroonstad, OFS.

Joe Slovo, former secretary of the SA Communist Party and minister of housing, is born in Lithuania. He died on 6 Jan. 1995.

Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure,

Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric

Dick King, a 29-year-old wagon driver, and his 16-year-old servant, Ndongeni, leave Durban on horseback for Grahamstown on an e

The western wing of Munitoria burns down and 5 000 municipal workers are requested by authorities to stay away from work the ne

Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k

Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for "blasphemous libels on Cape ladies" and is sentenced to beg thei