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A 603-carat diamond, the biggest found in thirteen years and the 15th largest in the world, goes on sale in Antwerp, the Nether
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The US calls on Egypt and Israel to work out an interim agreement on reopening the Suez Canal as the first step toward resolvin
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Ernest Methuen Mancoba, SA born artist who left for Paris to further his studies in 1938 and never returned to SA, is born in B
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The mayor of Cape Town, Thomas Ball, lays the corner stone of the Cape Town city hall, designed by architects Reid and Green fr
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On this day, the first and the last African ever to be elected to serve as a member of the Provincial Council wins the contest
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On this day, the first and the last African ever to be elected to serve as a member of the Provincial Council wins the contest
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SA gains 180 medals during the 7th All Africa Games that ends in Johannesburg; followed by Egypt with 156 and Nigeria with 128.
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Former Pres. P.W. Botha is found guilty by the Regional Court in George of omission to appear in person before the Truth and Re
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SAA diverts from its regular flights to Europe via the east coast of Africa and switches over to the Atlantic route to fly to E
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Libya and families of victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland sign an agreement to pay as muc
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At least one PAGAD member is reported arrested on charges of murder and sedition. On the same day PAGAD says it is seeking aid
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Absa Bank hands an old warrant of arrest for Nelson Mandela, dated May 18, 1961, to the Minister of Arts and Culture, Dr Pallo
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General Jan C.G. Kemp resigns as officer in the SA army because of the war policy of the Botha government and joins the Rebelli
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For the first time in SA history White, Coloured and Indian voters go to the polls on the same day to vote for representatives
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Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya rejects an offer by the USA and England to try the two Pan-Am Lockerbie suspects in the Netherlan
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Yom Kippur War ends with Israeli troops 100 km from Cairo and forty km from Damascus. Several other dates are given for this ev
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Mzolisi Goodman Diliza, businessman and Chief Executive of the Chamber of Mines of SA, is born. He was the first Black to be ap
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Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, the 22 year old Prince Imperial of France, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War when he and a Bri
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. M.T. Steyn, too weak to leave his tent, resigns because of poor health and Gen. C.R. de Wet is appointe
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Eugenie, Empress of the French and wife of Emperor Napoleon III, arrives in Durban to visit the grave of her son, the Prince Im
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Makhaya Ntini, bowler of the SA cricket team, is found guilty of raping a student and is replaced in the SA World Cup team by A
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Eugenie, Empress of the French and wife of Emperor Napoleon III, arrives in Durban to visit the grave of her son, the Prince Im
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At a summit meeting in Lusaka (14-16 April) the leaders of East and Central African States on 16 April 1969 agree to issue the
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Merchant Jan van Riebeeck is appointed commander at the Cape at a salary of 90 Dutch guilder per year and not 150, as was his r
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An Afrikaans poem of thirteen verses in near perfect Afrikaans by H.C. van de Berg and P.P. Hugo is published in De Vriend of B
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Ernest Mabaso, chairman of the ANC Zola Branch and member of the Soweto Civic Association, is shot dead as he is leaving his ho
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A female teacher is attacked by two robbers on her way to school and is saved by more than 100 pupils from Orlando North Second
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King Hintsa ka Phalo of the Xhosa nation is killed by British troops. The dates 12 February and 13 May are given by other s
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Mr Justice P.J. van der Walt acquits Moses Mayekiso and his four co-accused of all charges. They were arrested on 28 June 1986
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