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Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent opera, Aida, has its world premier in Cairo, Egypt. The composer was commissioned to write the op

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Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les

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Hansie Cronje (32), former SA cricket captain, is killed when a light plane in which he was travelling crashes into a mountain

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The government announces in a White Paper plans to re-organise the administration of South-West Africa, which will give Pretori

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Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded

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Dr. Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron, educationist, dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af

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Dr. Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron, educationist, dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af

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The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month,

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South Africa’s envoy to the United Nations, Les Manley, storms out of a Security Council meeting after accusing the council of

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Sir John Coode (75), planner of a seaward defence for Table Bay, which was built by prisoners, dies in Brighton, England.

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Michael Zondi, SA artist, is born in Msinga, Greytown, Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission

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Capt. Kurt von Francois arrives as leader of a small German regiment in South West Africa to suppress the Herero rebellion.

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South Africa sends troops to Bophuthatswana to reinstate Lucas Mangope who was ousted by local defence force members on charge

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The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i

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Paramount chief in KwaNdebele, Chief David Mabhoko, is restricted to his kraal shortly before he was due to address thousands o

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Adv. Anton Lubowski, Swapo member who allegedly spied for South Africa and who was later murdered in Windhoek, is born.

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Andrew and Lady Ann Barnard leaves Portsmouth, England, for the Cape, where Andrew was appointed secretary to the new English g

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SAA, inaugurated the previous year, takes over South-West African Airways which has since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail

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The United Nations adopts resolution 385 in which guidelines was laid down for an internationally accepted settlement of the So

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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow

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Eschel Rhoodie, the Secretary for Information, reveals that he has been operating a secret fund for which he was accountable on

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Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher dies in Still Bay, Western Cape. She was a founder member of the Austin Robe

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O.H.M. Chabane, MRC for Public Works, Northern Province Provincial Government and founder member of AZASO, is born. He was arre

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Judge Marthinus Theunis Steyn (Theunie) (77), SA judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa (Nami

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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s arrival at the inauguration of Pres. Thabo Mbeki was greeted with mixed emotions. Most of

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South African Airways suspends flights to Angola after an SAA aircraft was struck by bullets on approaching that country’s Crav

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Inkatha supporters rampage through a squatter camp in the Kagiso Township in the West Rand, killing at least twenty-two people.

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British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’. Warden and his family take up res

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Johannes van der Walt, SA wrestler who was known as the ‘Gemaskerde Wonder’ (Masked Wonder), dies in Johannesburg after being w

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John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour

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Giuseppe Verdi’s magnificent opera, Aida, has its world premier in Cairo, Egypt. The composer was commissioned to write the op

Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les

Hansie Cronje (32), former SA cricket captain, is killed when a light plane in which he was travelling crashes into a mountain

The government announces in a White Paper plans to re-organise the administration of South-West Africa, which will give Pretori

Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded

Dr. Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron, educationist, dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af

Dr. Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron, educationist, dies in Grahamstown, eastern Cape. She was one of the founders of the Af

The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month,

South Africa’s envoy to the United Nations, Les Manley, storms out of a Security Council meeting after accusing the council of

Sir John Coode (75), planner of a seaward defence for Table Bay, which was built by prisoners, dies in Brighton, England.

Michael Zondi, SA artist, is born in Msinga, Greytown, Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission

Capt. Kurt von Francois arrives as leader of a small German regiment in South West Africa to suppress the Herero rebellion.

South Africa sends troops to Bophuthatswana to reinstate Lucas Mangope who was ousted by local defence force members on charge

The Togolese opposition plans stay-at-home protest days today and tomorrow after the new President Faure Gnassingbe was sworn i

Paramount chief in KwaNdebele, Chief David Mabhoko, is restricted to his kraal shortly before he was due to address thousands o

Adv. Anton Lubowski, Swapo member who allegedly spied for South Africa and who was later murdered in Windhoek, is born.

Andrew and Lady Ann Barnard leaves Portsmouth, England, for the Cape, where Andrew was appointed secretary to the new English g

SAA, inaugurated the previous year, takes over South-West African Airways which has since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail

The United Nations adopts resolution 385 in which guidelines was laid down for an internationally accepted settlement of the So

Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow

Eschel Rhoodie, the Secretary for Information, reveals that he has been operating a secret fund for which he was accountable on

Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher dies in Still Bay, Western Cape. She was a founder member of the Austin Robe

O.H.M. Chabane, MRC for Public Works, Northern Province Provincial Government and founder member of AZASO, is born. He was arre

Judge Marthinus Theunis Steyn (Theunie) (77), SA judge of the Appeal Court and administrator-general of South West Africa (Nami

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s arrival at the inauguration of Pres. Thabo Mbeki was greeted with mixed emotions. Most of

South African Airways suspends flights to Angola after an SAA aircraft was struck by bullets on approaching that country’s Crav

Inkatha supporters rampage through a squatter camp in the Kagiso Township in the West Rand, killing at least twenty-two people.

British troops under Henry D. Warden arrive from Philippolis on the farm ‘Bloem Fontein’. Warden and his family take up res

Johannes van der Walt, SA wrestler who was known as the ‘Gemaskerde Wonder’ (Masked Wonder), dies in Johannesburg after being w

John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour