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A coup attempt fails in African nation of Chad. The government accuses Egypt of playing role in the attempt and breaks diplomat
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Lord Milner arrives back in Cape Town and the Cape Ministry produces a list of complaints to substantiate their opinion that th
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Mark Thatcher, SA business man and son of Margaret Thatcher, is arrested by the Scorpions on the suspicion of providing about $
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The Prime Minister warns the opposition parties, the United Party and Progressive Party that his government may have to end int
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Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h
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Col. Robert Jacob Gordon, Dutch officer and explorer of Scottish descent, after whom Gordon’s Bay is called, is born in Doesbur
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Roelof Temmingh, SA composer and organist, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He emigrates with his family in 1958 to SA.
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Two South Africans are appointed to a high-profile Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). The University of Na
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Five of the political detainees are released and on the same day the banning order on Dr. Beyers Naudé is lifted.
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The United Nations General Assembly’s Political Committee decides to grant observer status to the ANC and the PAC. The South Af
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Robert Godlonton, SA author, newspaper editor and champion for rights of the settlers on the eastern border of the Cape Colony,
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Five hundred people attend an AWB meeting and a further 200 attend an Afrikaner Volkswag meeting the gatherings are held to pro
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The Department of Native Affairs is renamed as the Department of Bantu Administration and Development, with its main aim to pro
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Thirty passengers are injured and admitted to various hospitals when a taxi crashes into the back of another taxi on William Ni
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The Prime Minister announces in Pretoria that he has decided that the House of Assembly and the four Provincial Councils should
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General Koos de la Rey is buried in Lichtenburg, Transvaal, in a very tense atmosphere. From far and near veteran officers of
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The town of Mafeking is officially surrendered by the Republic of South Africa to the Republic of Bophuthatswana, and upon its
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Dr Mark Erdman and his wife, Arnaz Mehta, discovers a coelacanth in a fish market in Manado on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesi
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The notorious Foster gang under leadership of William Foster, who stole and raided from 1912 to 1914, commit suicide in Johanne
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A fistfight between parliamentarians of the ANC and National Party erupts in the parliament in Cape Town. Johnny de Lange of th
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Samuel Bonnin Hobson, school inspector of the Cape Province and co-author with his brother, G.C. Hobson, of animal stories, is
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Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first president of the Transvaal elected in 1857 and founder of Pretoria, is born on the farm Preto
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Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h
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SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia, with one gold and two bro
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The Motsuenyane Commission finds the ANC guilty of torture in its camps and calls for a public apology to people whose rights h
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Mandisi Bongani Mabuto Mphalwa, Minister of Trade and Industry of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.
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Two boys, aged ten and fourteen, die near Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape, after picking up an explosive device they found while hunt
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US military forces attack a chemical plant in Sudan and what they describe as a terrorist camp in Afghanistan. Said to be linke
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Liberia’s main warring factions signed a peace accord calling for a cease-fire after more than five years of civil war and the
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