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The Scot arrives in Southampton, four days after Barney Barnato was drowned near Madeira. An immediate inquest into his dea
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The International Court of Justice in The Hague unanimously condemns the continuing presence of South Africa in South West Afri
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Henry Bathurst (72), British statesman and co-founder of the British Colonial Office, dies. The town of Bathurst (1820) was
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The South African government admits donating $35 billion in 1989 to support political parties opposing the South-West Africa Pe
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Pres. Gnassingbe Eyadema, president of the West African state Togo for 31 years, is inaugurated for another term of 5 years.
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The International Cricket Council in London cancels New Zealand’s cricket tour of the West Indies because of the South African
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The Star reports that a South African, Johan Hattingh, a former Task Force member, who was working with US company DynCorp in B
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Responsible government is promulgated in the Orange River Colony. News 24 gives the date self-government was granted as 1 July
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Patricia de Lille, former member of the PAC and current leader of the Independent Democrats, is born in Beaufort West.
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British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’. Warden and his family take up res
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Johannes van der Walt, SA wrestler who was known as the ‘Gemaskerde Wonder’ (Masked Wonder), dies in Johannesburg after being w
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John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour
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Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded
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The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month,
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South Africa’s envoy to the United Nations, Les Manley, storms out of a Security Council meeting after accusing the council of
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Sir John Coode (75), planner of a seaward defence for Table Bay, which was built by prisoners, dies in Brighton, England.
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Michael Zondi, SA artist, is born in Msinga, Greytown, Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission
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Stephen Gregory Naidoo, prelate, canon lawyer and critic of apartheid, is born in Durban. He was appointed archbishop of Cape T
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Dr Neville Edward Alexander, co-founder with Kenneth Alexander of the National Liberation Front, which aim was to bring togethe
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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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Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third legitimate son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, is born in Griqualand West.
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African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela states that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held pol
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The Star reports that a South African, Johan Hattingh, a former Task Force member, who was working with US company DynCorp in B
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Business Day reports that a visa was granted to Mrs Sheila Suttner, mother of recently released detainee Raymond Suttner, on co
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Muziwendoda Mdluli of the National Intelligence Agency is found shot dead in his car in Silverton, Pretoria. He was investigati
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Political assassination: Nic Cruse, who worked for PC Plus, which was started by people within the Mass Democratic Movement, is
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The Citizen reports there were two bomb blasts in Umtata, Transkei, in September. The first was when police detonated a limpet
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Mary Elizabeth Barber, an 1820 Settler and early SA naturalist, author and painter, dies in Malvern, Natal. She was a remarka
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Sierra Leone’s president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah shakes hands with his rebel counterpart Gen Issa Sesay, and declares the West Afric
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