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Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of
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Minister of Education and Culture Piet Clase, says in parliament that on the tenth school day of 1989, the number of African, C
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The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid resumes its meetings and decides to draft an appeal to the Se
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A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW
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Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al
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The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been
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The western wing of Munitoria burns down and 5 000 municipal workers are requested by authorities to stay away from work the ne
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Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k
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At least fourteen children have contracted HIV in SA hospitals and researchers say it should be a ‘wake-up’ call for the under-
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Dirkie Uys (Dirk Cornelis), child hero and son of the Voortrekker leader Piet Uys, is born in the district of Swellendam, CC.
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An 18-seater plane, owned by Bop Air and chartered to Comair, explodes in mid-air near Germiston, killing all seventeen people
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) heard three days of testimony concerning the role of the business sector during the apartheid era
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Open communication to my nominators for the post of Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Western Cape by Saleem Badat
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Strategy and Tactics of the ANC: Building a National Democratic Society - revised draft by ANC, 30 August 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
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Document 12 - Non-European Unity Movement. Resolutions passed at 6th National Unity Conference, Cape Town, 29, 30 and 31 March 1948
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Black Consciousness, Black theology, student activism, and the shaping of the new South Africa by Professor N. Barney Pityana, 9 October 2012, South Africa
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The Minister of Law and Order rejects conditions set on 18 October 1984 by the three remaining fugitives in the British Consula
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Vanessa Brereton, former “human rights” lawyer, admits that she was agent RS 452 and The Star publishes the first story of her
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An open letter is released by twelve leading clergymen from the Church of the Province of South Africa and other Protestant chu
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Prof. Johan Franken, writer of cultural historical works and expert on the history of the French Huguenots at the Cape, dies in
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Martin Melck, donator of the stand and builder of the Lutheran church on it, now a national monument, is born in Eastern Prussi
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The Special Service Battalion of the defence force of the Union of South Africa is dissolved, and gymnasiums for the army, air
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Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, dies in London.
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Mpande, king of the Zulu people and half-brother of Dingane, dies in Zululand. Another source gives the date as 19 November
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Gert van den Bergh, SA actor and first free-lance radio broadcaster who was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetens
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Rexon (Scotch) Mathebula, SA artist who held several menial jobs and sold his first artworks (images on pieces of glass made wi
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The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCL) states crime has gone far enough, and the government has to pull up its soc
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Commander Simon van der Stel, accompanied by his six children and his wife’s sister, is welcomed at the Cape by Hendrik Crudop,
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The PAC appoints V. Make as its new chairman and H. Isaacs to replace the assassinated Mr. Sibeko as its Director of Foreign Af
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