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Lord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as governor with a mandate to further develop the colony and to improve conditions fo
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Zaire falls further into chaos when parliament and the new prime minister declare each other unconstitutional on the eve of pea
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Lucky Kutumela (25), journalist and member of AZAPO/MWASA, is found dead in a police cell in Mahwelereng, Lebowa, with more tha
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The battles of Reddersburg, where the Boers under Gen. De Wet defeat the Royal Irish Rifles, and Mostertshoek, take place. Brit
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In an interim report, the Erasmus Commission exonerates P.W. Botha and all members of his government from having had any prior
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The New National Norms and Standards for School Funding are implemented in SA, aimed at achieving equity in the distribution of
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The New National Norms and Standards for School Funding are implemented in SA, aimed at achieving equity in the distribution of
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The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote
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Blacks comprise 73,9 % and Whites 26,1 % of the full-time component of the Department of Defence. The department has been reduc
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Zairian rebels order 20 000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the a
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UN Security Council votes to ban flights and arms sales to Libya, branding it a terrorist state for shielding six men accused o
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The draft Constitution is published. It is widely criticized and the government decides not to introduce it in the current Parl
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Nearly one hundred officers and men of Wood’s column are killed in a desperate fight against a Zulu impi on Hlobane Mountain du
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According to press reports, the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) accused the ANC of being "guilty of deceit and dup
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Swaziland and Lesotho take steps to clear themselves of suspicion of allowing insurgents of the ANC to use their territory as s
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Prof. Elize Botha, Afrikaans literary critic and former president of the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (SA Academy of Scien
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Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, Herbert Hull and David Lewis, strikers during the revolt, are hung in the Central Prison in Pretori
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Judge Goldstone makes an urgent plea to the SAG for wider powers, more resources and greater co-operation for his investigation
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In a move set to keep SA and Africa on the European Union’s (EU’s) radar screen, President Thabo Mbeki leads a top delegation o
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In line with the Record of Understanding reached between the SAG and ANC, forty-two political prisoners are released. The Natio
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Ronald (Ronnie) Kasrils, Minister of Intelligence of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004 and former member of the
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The Rivonia Trial, concerning two charges of sabotage, one under the Suppression of Communism Act, and one under the General La
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Peter (Petrus) K. Masiza, teacher and later priest in the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, dies in Tsomo, Eastern Cap
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Sir Andrew Smith, explorer and founder of the museum now known as the South African Museum, is born in Roxburgshire, England.
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A proclamation by Commander R.C. Dryer is ratified by British Letters Patent, and the annexation of Walvis Bay to the Cape of
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Lady Ann Barnard, author of descriptions of early Cape life and wife of Colonial Secretary Andrew Barnard, is born in Scotland.
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It is announced that White, Coloured and Asian workers affiliated to the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) have voted
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Walter Sisulu, John Mavuso, Moses Kotane, Marks Ramitloa and Betty du Toit attend a Christmas party in aid of the high treason
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Cassim Mahomed Lakhi, lecturer and later head of the Department of History of Art in the University College for Indians (later
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