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After the State President assents to the Transkei Flag Bill, the new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is h

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The UN Security Council declares the Congo River open again after two years and six months of war. The closure has affected foo

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The proposed peace proposals agreed on by a commission of five, Botha, De la Rey, De Wet and Hertzog, with Ki

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WWII: East Africa. Caught between a pincer movement of the 11th and 12th African Divisions, the Abyssinian town of Soddu is cap

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An American soldier is killed by a land mine in Somalia and a second dies in a truck crash, bringing to six the number of Ameri

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Anglo-Boer War 2: On the same day both the oldest and the youngest prisoners of war to be deported, are captured at Dwaalspruit

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The Political Council agrees to Marthinus Bergh’s request that he and his two sons be allowed to go to the Netherlands to plea

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The ANC blame the killing of up to fourteen people and the injuring of twenty-six unemployed people in Alberton on ‘third force

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Sokhaya Charles Nkosi, SA graphic artist, is born in Durban. He was employed by the SABC (1982-1986) and is since then senior

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Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.

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Percy Qoboza, who had resigned as editor of the Post papers on 13 January 1981 and left immediately for the United States, says

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Pat Symcox and Mark Boucher set a new world record partnership of 195 runs in the 9th wicket in the test against Pakistan.

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Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says about 120 police officers died in the course of their duties in the previous year,

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Anglo-Boer War 2: A battle takes place between the British forces under Lord Roberts and the Boers under Gen. De la Rey at Bran

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Dr Willem Henry Jacobus Punt, founder of the ‘Stigting Simon van der Stel’ (Simon van der Stel Foundation) and well-known SA cu

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James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at

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João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind. The stone is now kept in the South African M

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Table Mountain is sighted at 2.30 p.m. by a crewmember of the Drommedaris, the ship on which Jan van Riebeeck and his company w

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George Rex (74), believed to be the son of George III and Hannah Lightfoot, who was banned to the Cape, dies in Knysna.

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An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the

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Sir John Kotze, Chief Justice of the South African Republic and later Attorney-General of Rhodesia, dies in Cape Town at the ag

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James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at

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Winnie Mandela is found guilty on four charges of kidnapping and four of being an accessory after the fact to assault. Co-accus

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Anglo-Boer War 1: A Boer force of 150 men storms Majuba and drives out 400 British troops in the decisive battle of the Anglo-T

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The Chamber of XVII in Amsterdam orders that the Drommedaris, the Goede Hoop and the Reijger be fitted out for the proposed jou

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It is reported that about 15,000 students have returned to secondary schools in Soweto and that thirty-two of the forty state-r

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The Dutch East India Company receives the monopoly to trade with countries between the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Mage

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Scot of the Union Shipping Line sails from England to South Africa in a record time of 14 days, 18 hours and 57 minutes.

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Allan Boesak appears in a Cape Town court to face nine charges of fraud and twenty-one charges of theft involving more than $80

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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Christiaan de Wet and his men, in a battle that marks the first of the guerrilla phase of the Second

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After the State President assents to the Transkei Flag Bill, the new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is h

The UN Security Council declares the Congo River open again after two years and six months of war. The closure has affected foo

Anglo-Boer War 2: The proposed peace proposals agreed on by a commission of five, Botha, De la Rey, De Wet and Hertzog, with Ki

WWII: East Africa. Caught between a pincer movement of the 11th and 12th African Divisions, the Abyssinian town of Soddu is cap

An American soldier is killed by a land mine in Somalia and a second dies in a truck crash, bringing to six the number of Ameri

Anglo-Boer War 2: On the same day both the oldest and the youngest prisoners of war to be deported, are captured at Dwaalspruit

The Political Council agrees to Marthinus Bergh’s request that he and his two sons be allowed to go to the Netherlands to plea

The ANC blame the killing of up to fourteen people and the injuring of twenty-six unemployed people in Alberton on ‘third force

Sokhaya Charles Nkosi, SA graphic artist, is born in Durban. He was employed by the SABC (1982-1986) and is since then senior

Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.

Percy Qoboza, who had resigned as editor of the Post papers on 13 January 1981 and left immediately for the United States, says

Pat Symcox and Mark Boucher set a new world record partnership of 195 runs in the 9th wicket in the test against Pakistan.

Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok says about 120 police officers died in the course of their duties in the previous year,

Anglo-Boer War 2: A battle takes place between the British forces under Lord Roberts and the Boers under Gen. De la Rey at Bran

Dr Willem Henry Jacobus Punt, founder of the ‘Stigting Simon van der Stel’ (Simon van der Stel Foundation) and well-known SA cu

James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at

João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind. The stone is now kept in the South African M

Table Mountain is sighted at 2.30 p.m. by a crewmember of the Drommedaris, the ship on which Jan van Riebeeck and his company w

George Rex (74), believed to be the son of George III and Hannah Lightfoot, who was banned to the Cape, dies in Knysna.

An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the

Sir John Kotze, Chief Justice of the South African Republic and later Attorney-General of Rhodesia, dies in Cape Town at the ag

James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at

Winnie Mandela is found guilty on four charges of kidnapping and four of being an accessory after the fact to assault. Co-accus

Anglo-Boer War 1: A Boer force of 150 men storms Majuba and drives out 400 British troops in the decisive battle of the Anglo-T

The Chamber of XVII in Amsterdam orders that the Drommedaris, the Goede Hoop and the Reijger be fitted out for the proposed jou

It is reported that about 15,000 students have returned to secondary schools in Soweto and that thirty-two of the forty state-r

The Dutch East India Company receives the monopoly to trade with countries between the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Mage

Scot of the Union Shipping Line sails from England to South Africa in a record time of 14 days, 18 hours and 57 minutes.

Allan Boesak appears in a Cape Town court to face nine charges of fraud and twenty-one charges of theft involving more than $80

Anglo-Boer War 2: General Christiaan de Wet and his men, in a battle that marks the first of the guerrilla phase of the Second