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The SA cricket team loses the fourth test against England on Trent Bridge with 8 wickets. One test remains to be played and bot
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Piet de Wet, brother of Chief Commandant C.R. de Wet, and his staff lay down their arms at Kroonstad.
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Gen. Manie (Salomon Gerhardus) Maritz, member of the Danie Theron scout corps in the Anglo-Boer War 2 and one of the leaders of
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Raphael Ndukwe Chukwu, foreign football player who plays for SA and who was winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 97
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Thamsanqwa (Thami) ka Mnyele, SA artist who went into exile in Botswana in 1979 and became an active member of Umkhonto we Sezw
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Barney Barnato (44) dies when he jumps overboard the Scot near Madeira. He was on his way from Cape Town to Southampton and
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The Council of Policy resolves to settle Sheik Yusuf, brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape and came
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The Red Sea port of Assab, Ethiopia, and the country’s capital, Addis Ababa, 400 miles away, are linked with the re-opening of
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Mandla Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied at the Mofolo Arts Centre in Soweto and from 1984 to 1987
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SA quits the UN General Assembly and its committees for the rest of the 10th session after the Assembly adopts a resolution exp
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Commuters angry about train delays cause damage estimated at R30m when they set fire to several coaches and two offices at Germ
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Britain, the USA and the World Bank refuse aid to Pres. Gamal Abder Nasser to build the Aswan Dam in the Nile River.
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Springbok rugby coach Jake White selects a record six players of colour in his starting line-up ¬ and nine in his squad of twe
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Swimmer Penny Heyns of SA sets four world records in just two days in the 100m and 200m breaststroke in South California, USA.
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Angola, Cuba, and South Africa, after talks in New York from 11-13 July under US mediation, announce that they have reached ten
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Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, dies in Cape Town. The town Maclea
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Report of a Deputation from the ANC and Congress of Urban Advisory Boards to the Minister of Native Affairs, May 15-17,1939
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Crossing the Colour Lines, Crossing the Continents: Comparing the Racial Politics of the IWW in South Africa and the United States, 1905 - 1925
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Notes following Briefing to Media by President Thabo Mbeki and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Union Buildings, Pretoria, on Monday 17 March 2008
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Press comments made by South African President Thabo Mbeki and Prime Minister of Lesotho Pakalitha Mosisili Tuynhuys, Cape Town, Tuesday 19 June 2007
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Press Comments made by South African President Thabo Mbeki and Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire Guillaume Soro, Cape Town, 20 June 2007
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Barney Barnato, with his family and Solly Joel, leaves Cape Town for Southampton on board of the Scot to escape from work press
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Jochem Willemse saves most of the crew of the Hoogergeest when it is wrecked, together with the Goede Hoop and Oranje, near the
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Anglo-Boer War 2: On the same day both the oldest and the youngest prisoners of war to be deported, are captured at Dwaalspruit
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The Political Council agrees to Marthinus Bergh’s request that he and his two sons be allowed to go to the Netherlands to plea
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Pat Symcox and Mark Boucher set a new world record partnership of 195 runs in the 9th wicket in the test against Pakistan.
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Alfred Beit, friend of Cecil John Rhodes, co-founder of the De Beers Mining Company and co-founder of Southern Rhodesia, is bor
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The Chamber of XVII in Amsterdam orders that the Drommedaris, the Goede Hoop and the Reijger be fitted out for the proposed jou
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It is reported that about 15,000 students have returned to secondary schools in Soweto and that thirty-two of the forty state-r
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