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The Midge (61 tons) is stranded near Plettenberg Bay. The captain is accused of negligence because the anchor was rusted.
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Pretoria is officially selected as the capital of the ZAR. The seat of government was transferred from Potchefstroom to Pretori
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SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death. The sentence was later
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Police use teargas and rubber bullets to disperse residents of Ganyesa, north of Vryburg in North-West province. Residents were
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Britain grants self-government to the Transvaal Colony in South Africa. Several sources state that the Orange River Colony was
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Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, who was murdered on 19 November, is buried at his home v
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A leader of the South West African People’s Union and former prisoner on Robben Island, Mr Immanuel Shifidi, is killed during v
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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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The General Assembly of the United Nations decides with thirty-seven votes against nine, not to incorporate South West Africa i
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The first of the ‘Bantustans’ comes into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel, opens
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Matodzi Liphosa, community worker and director of several companies is born in Sibasa, Venda (now Limpopo). He was guest speake
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Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne (Gascoigne) Bulwer, governor of Natal after whom the town Bulwer was named, is born in England.
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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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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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Several hundred mounted Herero invade Okahandja in the then German South-West Africa, setting fire to buildings and killing 123
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Two youths are arrested at Bloemhof for the killing of two white rhinos en five eland at the Aventura res
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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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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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The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. The name of the organisation was changed in 1925
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SA’s first national news Agency, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established from what was the Reuters South Afr
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The SA cricket team beats the West Indies with nine wickets in Durban to lead 3-0 in the series of five.
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The Bondelswarts, a small tribe of Nama origin who settled at Warmbad, South West Africa about 1905, capitulates to the German
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Sir Henry George Elliot, chief landdros of the Transkei after whom the town Elliot was named, is born in Canada.
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
BiographyMogoeng Thomas Mogoeng
Justice Mogoeng Thomas Reetsang. Mogoeng was born on 14 January 1961 in Goo-Mokgatha (Koffiekraal) village, north east of Zeerust, North West Province. He was…