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Trevor Wittes, arrested after the murder on four people in George and pretending to be paralysed after being shot by police, is
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The first ‘Burgerspond’, named after Pres. T.F. Burgers and made of gold from Pilgrim’s Rest, is handed in London to J.J. Pratt
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Judge Faan Hancke finds Marius Swanepoel and Hendrik Du Preez guilty of the murders on two soldiers in an apparent rightwing-in
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In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their
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Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom several places and towns in SA are named, e.g. Port
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An Egyptian munitions ship, Star of Alexandria, explodes at the dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 are injured, and $20 mi
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Lieutenant FM Bekker and Lieutenant RM du Plooy, serving with the SAAF Cheetah Squadron in the Korean War, are killed in action
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Three people die and sixty-nine are injured in a bomb explosion in Magoo’s Bar on the Durban beach. ANC member Robert McBri
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SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
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A deal is proposed between the IFP and the ANC in Kwazulu-Natal aimed at stopping the conflict. The initiative has brought a de
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Dr Werner W.M. Eiselen, co-founder of the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (Sabra) and promoter of the concept of separat
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Abdol Burns, Cape Muslim political leader, cab driver and teacher, is buried in Cape Town. He was born in Cape Town c.1838.
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Dr Werner W.M. Eiselen, co-founder of the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (Sabra) and promoter of the concept of separat
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Nine staff members of a training company and a pilot are killed when their plane crashes near the N17 freeway minutes after tak
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Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.
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News 24 reports that the all-girls choir of Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool in Pretoria won first place and gold in the folklore w
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In reaction to further deaths of people in police detention, ten policemen have been suspended from duty and six have been char
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The Santos of Germany, weighing 163 tons, sinks near Mossel Bay with a cargo of skins, dried fruit and wool from Cape Town.
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A grenade attack is launched on the ANC headquarters in Johannesburg. It is blamed by the ANC on a ‘third force’, and is linked
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Chief Commandant De Wet, Pres. Steyn and members of the Free State government break out of the Brandwater Basi
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Free State government is to dispense with the idea of a capital, and they become a government ‘in the fie
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”National Day of Protest and Mourning, Stay at Home on Monday, 26th June! “flyer issued by [twelve persons], June 15, 1950
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Transcript Copy: Joint Press Conference on Conclusion of Discussions between Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Hugo Chavez, 2 September 2008, Media Centre, Union Buildings
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Two brothers appear in court in connection with the murder of two soldiers from Tempe, near Bloemfontein and also the theft of
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Goodwill Sthuli Shlaza (22), chairperson of the ANC Youth League of Piet Retief and of the ANC Youth League zonal structure, is
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Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he
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The Cape Supreme Court, sitting in Port Elizabeth, sets aside the 1973 election of Lennox Sebe and three other members of the C
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The Iron and Steel Industrial Corporation Act is accepted by the SA parliament, thereby paving the way for the founding of ISCO
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At least 460 refugees, most of them women and children, are massacred in Liberia, allegedly by rebels led by faction leader Cha
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