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A serious peacetime air force accident takes place when a 20-lb bomb falls from a military DH9 bomber, which was damaged during

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The Natal Mercury reports that Mr Jan Steyn, a director of Hillview Investments, announced that the company was to develop SA’s

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Several hundred mounted Herero invade Okahandja in the then German South-West Africa, setting fire to buildings and killing 123

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The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. The name of the organisation was changed in 1925

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SA’s first national news Agency, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established from what was the Reuters South Afr

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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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Willem Eduard Bok, government commissioner and sub-editor of De Volksstem is born in the Netherlands. Boksburg was later na

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Dr William Guybon Atherstone (84), medical practitioner and scientist who was probably the first to use an anaesthetic in any B

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Prime Minister Vorster holds talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Kissinger, in West Germany (23-24 June).

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Anglo-Boer War 2: “In a letter to St John Broderick, Secretary of War, Lord Kitchener declares, ‘It was a mistake to regard t

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British execute P.W. Kloppert, a Cape rebel, by hanging. Cloete claimed that he was not a rebel because

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The Alabama, American raider, is sunk outside Cherbourg harbour, France, by the U.S.S. Kearsarge. She was built during the Am

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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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Pretoria is officially selected as the capital of the ZAR. The seat of government was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretori

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SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death. The sentence was later

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The SA cricket team beats the West Indies in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with 4 wickets in a one-day International Cricket Council Wills

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A leader of the South West African People’s Union and former prisoner on Robben Island, Mr Immanuel Shifidi, is killed during v

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Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f

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The General Assembly of the United Nations decides with thirty-seven votes against nine, not to incorporate South West Africa i

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The first of the ‘Bantustans’ comes into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel, opens

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Matodzi Liphosa, community worker and director of several companies is born in Sibasa, Venda (now Limpopo). He was guest speake

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Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer, governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, is born in England.

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Angry commuters in Vereeniging torch four carriages at the Residentia railway station after it was reported that there would be

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The Midge (61 tons) is stranded near Plettenberg Bay. The captain is accused of negligence because the anchor was rusted.

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Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse residents of Ganyesa, north of Vryburg in North-West province. Residents were

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Britain grants self-government to the Transvaal Colony in South Africa. Several sources state that the Orange River Colony was

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Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, who was murdered on 19 November, is buried at his home v

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The SA cricket team beats the West Indies with nine wickets in Durban to lead 3-0 in the series of five.

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The Bondelswarts, a small tribe of Nama origin who settled at Warmbad, South West Africa about 1905, capitulates to the German

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Sir Henry George Elliot, chief landdros of the Transkei after whom the town Elliot was named, is born in Canada.

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A serious peacetime air force accident takes place when a 20-lb bomb falls from a military DH9 bomber, which was damaged during

The Natal Mercury reports that Mr Jan Steyn, a director of Hillview Investments, announced that the company was to develop SA’s

Several hundred mounted Herero invade Okahandja in the then German South-West Africa, setting fire to buildings and killing 123

The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. The name of the organisation was changed in 1925

SA’s first national news Agency, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established from what was the Reuters South Afr

The Star reports that a South African, Johan Hattingh, a former Task Force member, who was working with US company DynCorp in B

Willem Eduard Bok, government commissioner and sub-editor of De Volksstem is born in the Netherlands. Boksburg was later na

Dr William Guybon Atherstone (84), medical practitioner and scientist who was probably the first to use an anaesthetic in any B

Prime Minister Vorster holds talks with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Kissinger, in West Germany (23-24 June).

Anglo-Boer War 2: “In a letter to St John Broderick, Secretary of War, Lord Kitchener declares, ‘It was a mistake to regard t

Anglo-Boer War 2: The British execute P.W. Kloppert, a Cape rebel, by hanging. Cloete claimed that he was not a rebel because

The Alabama, American raider, is sunk outside Cherbourg harbour, France, by the U.S.S. Kearsarge. She was built during the Am

The Scot arrives in Southampton, four days after Barney Barnato was drowned near Madeira. An immediate inquest into his dea

Pretoria is officially selected as the capital of the ZAR. The seat of government was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretori

SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death. The sentence was later

The SA cricket team beats the West Indies in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with 4 wickets in a one-day International Cricket Council Wills

A leader of the South West African People’s Union and former prisoner on Robben Island, Mr Immanuel Shifidi, is killed during v

Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f

The General Assembly of the United Nations decides with thirty-seven votes against nine, not to incorporate South West Africa i

The first of the ‘Bantustans’ comes into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel, opens

Matodzi Liphosa, community worker and director of several companies is born in Sibasa, Venda (now Limpopo). He was guest speake

Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer, governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, is born in England.

Angry commuters in Vereeniging torch four carriages at the Residentia railway station after it was reported that there would be

The Midge (61 tons) is stranded near Plettenberg Bay. The captain is accused of negligence because the anchor was rusted.

Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse residents of Ganyesa, north of Vryburg in North-West province. Residents were

Britain grants self-government to the Transvaal Colony in South Africa. Several sources state that the Orange River Colony was

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, who was murdered on 19 November, is buried at his home v

The SA cricket team beats the West Indies with nine wickets in Durban to lead 3-0 in the series of five.

The Bondelswarts, a small tribe of Nama origin who settled at Warmbad, South West Africa about 1905, capitulates to the German

Sir Henry George Elliot, chief landdros of the Transkei after whom the town Elliot was named, is born in Canada.