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Anglo-Boer War 2: As result of a military notice on this date, the first two refugee camps are established at Pretoria and Bloe
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Australia comes first in the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, winning 199 medals; England wins 136, Canada 99 and SA ends fi
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Dimension Data the information technology long-time darling of the JSE and London Stock Exchange reaches an all-time high of R7
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Henry Francis Fynn, pioneer, settler and member of the Farewell expedition to Shaka with a view to open up an ivory trade with
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Henry Francis Fynn, pioneer, settler and member of the Farewell expedition to Shaka with a view to open up an ivory trade with
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The Neptune, carrying 282 convicts, sails into Table Bay. SESA gives the date as 19 September 1849 and the harbour as Simon’s B
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Josephus Suasso de Lima (46), first editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, ‘De Verzamelaar’, dies in Cape Tow
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Dr Ivy Matsepe-Casaburi, Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999 and former premier of th
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Fana Nzimande, IFP supporting headman, his wife and four children between the ages of four to fifteen, are shot dead in their h
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The British settlement in Sierra Leone is founded. Britain says it is to provide a home in Africa for freed slaves and homeless
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Gas belching from the volcanic Lake Nyos in the remote mountains of Cameroon kills more than 1,200 people and injures 500.
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Senegal decides to withdraw from the Mali Federation which it has formed with French Sudan (now Mali) in 1959, and gains comple
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Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga
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Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling win the first gold medal for SA for the 4 x 100m relay at the
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Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was
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Hundreds of Burundians and a few foreigners pack the airport to catch the last commercial flights out of the country as the wor
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During a visit to Paraguay by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs (13-18 Aug.), four agreements on South Afr
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Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling win the first gold medal for SA for the 4 x 100m relay at the
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The soccer race has started to get "Winning Team 2010" off the ground and ready for action when South Africa hosts th
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B.J. Vorster, former SA prime minister and state president is buried in the so-called Heroes’ Acre at the Dutch Reformed Church
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South African riot police use tear gas and whips in Soweto as unrest continue. A sweeping ban on meetings critical of the Gover
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Minister of Defence P.W. Botha announces in Cape Town that the posts of Secretary for Defence and Commandant-General of the Def
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At least 172 people are slain in Algeria in three incidents believed linked to the country’s upcoming election and to the long,
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At least twenty-five people are reported to have died in violence between members of the United Democratic Party and Inkatha in
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on death row, inc
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A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy
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Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa
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Following the elections, ten new senators are chosen and appointed by the Prime Minister, on the same day that the electoral co
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France is accused by the Human Rights Arms Project of arming and training the Hutu extremists who organised the genocide in Rwa
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