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The trial of twelve members of the banned ANC in Pietermaritzburg ends with the death sentence for one defendant and a total of
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Anna E. Bliss and Abbie P. Ferguson arrive in Cape Town by boat from New York to start the Huguenot College in Paarl, CC.
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Angola’s government and its rebel foes agree to a cease-fire in their eighteen-year war. The final cease-fire agreement was onl
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SA Minister of Foreign Affairs Pik Botha warns that SA will not tolerate the introduction of Cuban troops and will not hesitate
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Colin Mark de Sousa, who donned a SADF uniform and gained entry into the premises of the Wits Command to make a surveillance of
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Bruce Fordyce, legendary Comrades Marathon winner, is born in Hong Kong. He came in 1956 to South Africa with his parents and i
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Leopoldville is founded as a trading post by H.M. Stanley and named Leopoldville in honour of King Leopold II of Belgium. In 19
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Prof. Russel Botman is appointed as rector of the University of Stellenbosch. He is the first theologian and also the first mem
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The SA Communist Party, in alliance with the African National Congress and the Congress of Trade Unions will use mass action in
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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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Schalk Willem Burger, vice-president and acting president of the ZAR after President Kruger left for Europe in 1900, dies at Go
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South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on
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The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu
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At the end of an eight-month trial a University lecturer, Eddie Webster and four White students are acquitted of all charges ag
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Kitchener succeeds Lord Roberts as commander-in-chief of the British forces in SA and Lord Roberts succe
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Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu
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In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen years, 75 people are killed and 76 injured w
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Gen. Manie (Salomon Gerhardus) Maritz, member of the brave Danie Theron scout corps in Anglo-Boer War 2 and one of the leaders
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Johannes Nkosi, martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa, whose death is annually commemorated by the ANC and the SACP on
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Sir John George Fraser, SA statesman and private secretary of Pres. J.H. Brand of the OFS, is born in Beaufort West, Karoo.
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WWII: Dan Pienaar gains distinction in an attack on the Italian outpost of El Wak and is awarded the Distinguished Service Orde
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On his last voyage of discovery in the Resolution and the Discovery, Capt. James Cook finds a group of islands, which he named
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African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela says he and President FW de Klerk are bound by the Nobel Peace Prize they accep
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In a meeting between Pres. Mbeki and Pres. Hu Jintao of China in the Union Buildings, Pretoria, the two leaders agree to intens
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Britain’s King George VI dies and is succeeded by his daughter, Elizabeth II. Her husband, Prince Philip, informs her of his de
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It is announced in Pretoria that Dr. Carel de Wet, M.P. for Vanderbijlpark, Transvaal and grandson of General C.R. de Wet, a le
ArchiveDraft position paper on the ideologies of Pan Africanism and Black Consciousness as they have developed in occupied Azania (ie South Africa)
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Elections for the Coloured and Indian Parliament under the new Constitution, to be held on 22 August 1984, are announced by the
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