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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight
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William John Burchell leaves Cape Town with a specially built wagon on a journey, which was to last four years, to explore the
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Mohammed Charles Ouseb, Namibian football player for Kaizer Chiefs who was winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 98/
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SA signs an agreement with Southern Rhodesia for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with res
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Funeral service of Rivonia trialist and MK cadre Wilton Mkwayi takes place in King William’s Town. He was awarded this honour
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Sierra Leonean rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who had been in United Nations custody since 2000 and was awaiting trial on charges o
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Prof. Ulrich Gerhard Lauts (78), who reported on the Great Trek and further adventures of the Voortrekkers and who was appointe
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Gordon Igesund, SA soccer coach who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Coach of the Decade, is born in Durban.
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After the 1914 Rebellion, General Christiaan de Wet is found guilty of high treason in the High Court, Bloemfontein, and senten
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Johannes de Wet (80), champion for freedom of the press against Lord Charles Somerset and member of the Cape legislative assemb
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Lord Salisbury negotiates an Anglo-French agreement on West Africa and ends the Niger crisis. It defines the border between Nig
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British mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned after having failed with much loss of life on both sides. He was ultimately d
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The verdict of the International Court in the Hague in connection with South Africa’s mandate of South West Africa is delivered
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Dr Karl Bremmer, SA minister of health after whom the Karl Bremer Hospital in Bellville was named, dies in Cape Town.
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag
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A 1000-strong search party finds the body of the Prince Imperial of France, Louis Napoleon, who was killed when Zulu warriors a
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Natal Indian Congress (NIC) meets in an emergency session in Durban and decides on a hartal on 13 June, which was designated &q
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Bartolomeu Dias erects the second padrão, that of St. Philip, at Cape Maclear, west of Cape Point, on his return journey. v.
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Daniel Sefundi (Dan) Rakgoathe, SA artist, is born in Randfontein, Transvaal. He was the first full-time student in the fin
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Sir William Henry Beaumont, judge and private secretary of the administrator of Natal, is born in India. He was chairman of t
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Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,
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Joseph Kasavubu, first president of the Congo, dies in Boma, lower Congo. He was born in Tshela, Leopoldville Province, in 19
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The South African government announces that self-governing status is to be granted to the Caprivi region of South West Africa (
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Tertius Bosch, SA cricket player in one test match against the West Indies (1991-1992), is born in Vereeniging. (Wallis; Nuusda
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Angered by the way President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced to flee his country, the 15-nation Caribbean Community says it w
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Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide claims he was forced to leave Haiti by US military forces. He is currently resi
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Two newspapers, the World and the Weekend World are banned. This day was later commemorated by journalists country-wide as nati
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The Star newspaper makes its first appearance in Johannesburg as The Eastern Star. It was founded in Grahamstown under that tit
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The two Voortrekker states, one east of the Drakensberg and one west, unite to form the Republic of Natalia. Practical diffic
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