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Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, community leader, member of the Cape City Council (1904-1940) and Cape Provincial Council (1914-1940),

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The Confederation of Senegambia between Senegal and the Gambia is formally launched. The federation was intended to promote coo

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Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is broken. Nyasaland (now Malawi) moves towards independence under the leadership of Dr Ha

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S. le Roux Marais (Stephanus), organist, teacher, pioneer of the art song (lieder) and composer of numerous songs in Afrikaans

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Five days after Italy captured the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, Mussolini annexes Ethiopia and announces that Abyssinia is

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Prof. Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu, SA ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and former SA Minister of Education

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A combined force of British soldiers and armed Blacks attempts to surround General C.H. Muller’s commando, commanded in his abs

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WWII: East Africa. Naval bases of Antsirañana and Diego Suarez, Madagascar are surrendered to the British by Vichy forces.

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The ‘Volksraad’ of the ZAR gathers for the last time in Pretoria and is addressed by Pres. Paul Kruger.

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The British Lions rugby team leaves London to begin a controversial twenty-two-match tour of South Africa and Rhodesia.

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Two people are killed and twenty injured in a land mine explosion on a dirt road near Messina (Mussina) northern Transvaal. 5

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Prof. François Ernst Johannes Malherbe, lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch and literary critic, is born in the distric

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Richard Owen Dudley, president of the New Unity Movement, 1985, and active campaigner against separate schooling based on colou

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Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.

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Prof. Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe (Boerneef), well-known SA poet and author, is born on Boplaas, district Ceres.

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Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historic books on African people and their customs, dies instantly after b

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The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a

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The Azanian People’s Organisation and the Pan Africanist Congress announce they are to work towards the formation of a patrioti

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Fydell Edmund Garrett (41), newspaper editor, member of parliament and friend of Cecil John Rhodes, dies in Devon, England.

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Pandemonium breaks loose when Sepp Blatter, the chairperson of Fifa, the soccer world governing body, and his entourage enters

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Jac J. Brits, Afrikaans author of mainly juvenile fiction and chairman of the ‘Afrikaanse Skrywerskring’, is born in the distri

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Hijackers seeking to draw attention to the economic and political strife in Ethiopia divert a passenger plane to Khartoum, Suda

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Relief of Jammersberg Drift: The relief columns under Generals Hart and Barbazon arrive at Wepener. General D

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Seven people die and fourteen are injured when a car bomb, planted by the AWB (Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging), explodes in Breë

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Mohammed Bhabha, attorney and member of the National Council of Provinces for Mpumalanga, is born in Roodepoort, West Rand.

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Pieter Johannes Hendrik Coetzee, cultural reformer after the Rebellion in 1914 and World War I, is born in Burgersdorp, CC.

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Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born.

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Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born.

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Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born i