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Governor Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon leaves the Cape. He was popular with the colonists and improved conditions of

Press Comments made by South African President Thabo Mbeki and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Union Buildings, Pretoria. Friday 5 October 2007

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The National Assembly passes legislation providing for abortion on demand within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and for te

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Stephen Gregory Naidoo, prelate, canon lawyer and critic of apartheid, is born in Durban. He was appointed archbishop of Cape T

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Chief Mhlontlo (Mhlonthlo) lures Hamilton Hope (resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape) and his staff to Sulenkama wh

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South African Black leader Nelson Mandela appears in court in Johannesburg and pleads not guilty. Nelson Mandela, in his Long W

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Burundi’s National Palace is stormed in a coup and Hutu president Melchior Ndadaye is killed just four months after gaining pow

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Church, community and worker organisations call for a national day of peaceful protest on the day of the coming municipal elect

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Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in P

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Death Row prisoner Butana Almond Nofomela is granted a last minute stay of execution following his revelations that he and four

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Sita Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only&quot; reading room, defying the segregati

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The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 Oct), adopts a Declaration urgin

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A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze.

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SA signs multilateral treaty on the conservation of Atlantic tunas (with final act and resolution adopted by the conference of

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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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Heavy fighting breaks out in Luanda, Angola, between the government and Unita. The conflict rages for three days, claiming at l

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Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and troops push on towards the Suez canal, just twenty miles away. Israeli paratroopers drop

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Israeli troops invade Sinai Peninsula, later to be joined by British and French forces, following Egypt’s seizure of the Suez C

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Gen. Constand Laubscher Viljoen, former head of the SADF and leader of the Vryheidsfront, is born in Standerton, Eastern Transv

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Fourteen people die when a group of over 100 armed men, allegedly IFP members, attack residents, vehicles and houses in Gcilima

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The corner stone of the Technical College in Pretoria, at the corner of Church and Du Toit streets, is laid.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse is placed under arrest aboard the Avondale Castle, in terms

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Supporters of Ivory Coast’s president-elect and his political rival fight bloody clashes in Abidjan over a demand for new presi

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The South African Indian Council requests the Prime Minister to reverse the Cabinet’s decision not to return Pageview and Distr

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Bishop Hamilton Mvumelwano, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and President of the SA Council of Chur

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Gideon Roos, SA actor, broadcaster and co-founder of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), is born in Worcester, CC.

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The scheme decided on 17 October, involving the conversion of Newclare, Western Native Township and the southern part of Clarem

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The scheme decided on 17 October, involving the conversion of Newclare, Western Native Township and the southern part of Clarem

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In a joint statement, Government and the PAC say they agreed on the urgent need for the establishment of a more representative

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National Union of Mineworkers’ leader Cyril Ramaphosa is awarded the Olof Palme prize for “courage and wisdom in the solidarity

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Governor Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon leaves the Cape. He was popular with the colonists and improved conditions of

Press Comments made by South African President Thabo Mbeki and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Union Buildings, Pretoria. Friday 5 October 2007

The National Assembly passes legislation providing for abortion on demand within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and for te

Stephen Gregory Naidoo, prelate, canon lawyer and critic of apartheid, is born in Durban. He was appointed archbishop of Cape T

Chief Mhlontlo (Mhlonthlo) lures Hamilton Hope (resident magistrate at Tsolo in the Eastern Cape) and his staff to Sulenkama wh

South African Black leader Nelson Mandela appears in court in Johannesburg and pleads not guilty. Nelson Mandela, in his Long W

Burundi’s National Palace is stormed in a coup and Hutu president Melchior Ndadaye is killed just four months after gaining pow

Church, community and worker organisations call for a national day of peaceful protest on the day of the coming municipal elect

Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon form the Arab League to present a unified front against the establishment of a Jewish state in P

Death Row prisoner Butana Almond Nofomela is granted a last minute stay of execution following his revelations that he and four

Sita Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only&amp;quot; reading room, defying the segregati

The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 Oct), adopts a Declaration urgin

A pipeline explodes in Nigeria when villagers try to siphon off oil. Between 400 and 700 people die in the blaze.

SA signs multilateral treaty on the conservation of Atlantic tunas (with final act and resolution adopted by the conference of

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

Heavy fighting breaks out in Luanda, Angola, between the government and Unita. The conflict rages for three days, claiming at l

Israel invades the Sinai Peninsula and troops push on towards the Suez canal, just twenty miles away. Israeli paratroopers drop

Israeli troops invade Sinai Peninsula, later to be joined by British and French forces, following Egypt’s seizure of the Suez C

Gen. Constand Laubscher Viljoen, former head of the SADF and leader of the Vryheidsfront, is born in Standerton, Eastern Transv

Fourteen people die when a group of over 100 armed men, allegedly IFP members, attack residents, vehicles and houses in Gcilima

The corner stone of the Technical College in Pretoria, at the corner of Church and Du Toit streets, is laid.

Anglo-Boer War 2: English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse is placed under arrest aboard the Avondale Castle, in terms

Supporters of Ivory Coast’s president-elect and his political rival fight bloody clashes in Abidjan over a demand for new presi

The South African Indian Council requests the Prime Minister to reverse the Cabinet’s decision not to return Pageview and Distr

Bishop Hamilton Mvumelwano, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa and President of the SA Council of Chur

Gideon Roos, SA actor, broadcaster and co-founder of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), is born in Worcester, CC.

The scheme decided on 17 October, involving the conversion of Newclare, Western Native Township and the southern part of Clarem

The scheme decided on 17 October, involving the conversion of Newclare, Western Native Township and the southern part of Clarem

In a joint statement, Government and the PAC say they agreed on the urgent need for the establishment of a more representative

National Union of Mineworkers’ leader Cyril Ramaphosa is awarded the Olof Palme prize for “courage and wisdom in the solidarity

Sita Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only" reading room, defying the segregati