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The Cape Corps, consisting of thirty-two officers and 1022 soldiers, leaves for East Africa during the First World War.
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Langalibalele, chief of the AmaHlubi people, is tried by a British special court, found guilty of treason, and banished to Robb
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The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i
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South Africa radio reports that C. Barnard and A.K. Myburgh have been sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment each for their par
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A newspaper in Mozambique reports that hurricanes and floods in the past two weeks have caused twenty-nine deaths, total destru
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A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern Cape and confirm
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Herero Revolt: A repair team begins to repair the destroyed state railway line between Waldau and Karibib. With the outbreak of
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The Sudanese government and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, the main rebel group involved in the country’s 19-year-old c
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At least twenty-two people are killed and 4000 are rendered homeless by a devastating storm in Mount Ayliff, Eastern Cape.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Mafeking siege: Two Black cattle-herds are captured and summarily executed at Mafeking by burghers, in acco
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Percy Qoboza, well-known anti-apartheid journalist and editor of The World newspaper, dies in Johannesburg on his fiftieth birt
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Patrice Lumumba, first and only elected Prime Minister of Congo, is murdered. The killing of Lumumba remained a secret for year
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Henry Smith, an Umlaas Road farmer and popular master, accompanies his workers to Camperdown to pay their taxes. That evening,
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Barney Cohen (53), former Drum magazine editor and chief executive officer of Urban Brew studios, dies in Johannesburg while un
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The government is reported to have frozen the South African assets of the former Information Secretary, Dr. Eschel Roodie, and
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A clash between police and suspected guerrillas is reported near the Botswana border. Botswana denies that it is being used as
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Zulus attack Indians in Durban. At least 137 people are killed and a thousand or more injured. The government complains abo
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Abeid Karume, leader of the Zanzibar Afro-Shrazi Party, seizes power from the Arab dominated Zanzibar National Party and procla
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Several hundred mounted Herero invade Okahandja in the then German South-West Africa, setting fire to buildings and killing 123
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Precious Chiliza (6), Nkanyiso Sithole (9) and Noluthando Mkhezi (11) are killed when sixteen gunmen open fire on the car of Ab
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The Star reports that four people were detained in the Transkei after a shootout between police and suspected insurgents in the
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Adv. Anton Lubowski, Swapo member who allegedly spied for South Africa and who was later murdered in Windhoek, is born.
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Andrew and Lady Ann Barnard leaves Portsmouth, England, for the Cape, where Andrew was appointed secretary to the new English g
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Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz discovers that he has sailed past the southernmost point of Africa and puts ashore in the
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President Thabo Mbeki and several other heads of states attend the inauguration of the new president of Mozambique, Armando Gue
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People are encouraged to protect our natural wetlands because they are the special habitat of certain living species and protec
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Egypt and Syria proclaims the union of their two countries in a state to be known as ‘The United Arab Republic’.
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President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu
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David Draper, prospector and geologist is born in Cape Town. He discovered underground water at Zuurbekom in 1898, whereby freq
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