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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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South Africa radio reports that C. Barnard and A.K. Myburgh have been sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment each for their par

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A newspaper in Mozambique reports that hurricanes and floods in the past two weeks have caused twenty-nine deaths, total destru

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Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.

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Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police

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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that the ‘72-hour curfew’ will be lifted on a trial b

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At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants

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Precious Chiliza (6), Nkanyiso Sithole (9) and Noluthando Mkhezi (11) are killed when sixteen gunmen open fire on the car of Ab

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The Star reports that four people were detained in the Transkei after a shootout between police and suspected insurgents in the

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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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Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz discovers that he has sailed past the southernmost point of Africa and puts ashore in the

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President Thabo Mbeki and several other heads of states attend the inauguration of the new president of Mozambique, Armando Gue

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People are encouraged to protect our natural wetlands because they are the special habitat of certain living species and protec

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Egypt and Syria proclaims the union of their two countries in a state to be known as ‘The United Arab Republic’.

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President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu

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David Draper, prospector and geologist is born in Cape Town. He discovered underground water at Zuurbekom in 1898, whereby freq

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A Liberian freighter rams a bridge in Florida’s Tampa Bay, collapsing part of the span (a 1,400-foot section) and plunging thir

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William H. Addison, first district surgeon of Pietermaritzburg, arrives with his wife and son in Port Natal aboard the Lalla Ro

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Miss Namibia, Michelle McLean, a six-foot-tall model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand, the first eve

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Afrikaans becomes one of the official languages of the Union of South Africa following the introduction and passing of a bill b

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WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Sir Harold Alexander’s 18th Army Group captures Bizerte and Tunis. All that rema

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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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Cornelis Goover and twenty-four men land at Warwijk’s Haven, Mauritius, to establish a Dutch settlement on the island. Their ta

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UN Security Council extends sanctions imposed on Liberia in 2001 for allegedly aiding rebels in Sierra Leone. The sanctions inc

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Irene Charnley, Executive Director of Johnnic, trustee of several funds and winner of the Businesswoman of the Year Award 2000,

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The Government states in Parliament that 18,000 persons have been arrested and detained since the proclamation of the emergency

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Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher dies in Still Bay, Western Cape. She was a founder member of the Austin Robe

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General Law Amendment Act No 37 commences. Section 17, the ninety-day detention law, authorises any commissioned officer to det

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Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan

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Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant and leader of the burghers who drove Landdros Maynier away in 1795, is born. Van

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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

South Africa radio reports that C. Barnard and A.K. Myburgh have been sentenced to fifty years’ imprisonment each for their par

A newspaper in Mozambique reports that hurricanes and floods in the past two weeks have caused twenty-nine deaths, total destru

Charles William Henry Kohler, dentist, businessman, farmer and first chairman of the KWV founded in 1918, is born in Calvinia.

Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police

The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces that the ‘72-hour curfew’ will be lifted on a trial b

At the farewell function following the signing of Retief’s treaty, Piet Retief, seventy of his men and thirty mounted servants

Precious Chiliza (6), Nkanyiso Sithole (9) and Noluthando Mkhezi (11) are killed when sixteen gunmen open fire on the car of Ab

The Star reports that four people were detained in the Transkei after a shootout between police and suspected insurgents in the

Adv. Anton Lubowski, Swapo member who allegedly spied for South Africa and who was later murdered in Windhoek, is born.

Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Diaz discovers that he has sailed past the southernmost point of Africa and puts ashore in the

President Thabo Mbeki and several other heads of states attend the inauguration of the new president of Mozambique, Armando Gue

People are encouraged to protect our natural wetlands because they are the special habitat of certain living species and protec

Egypt and Syria proclaims the union of their two countries in a state to be known as ‘The United Arab Republic’.

President F.W. de Klerk appoints a one-man commission of inquiry into alleged hit squads and a second commission into the circu

David Draper, prospector and geologist is born in Cape Town. He discovered underground water at Zuurbekom in 1898, whereby freq

A Liberian freighter rams a bridge in Florida’s Tampa Bay, collapsing part of the span (a 1,400-foot section) and plunging thir

William H. Addison, first district surgeon of Pietermaritzburg, arrives with his wife and son in Port Natal aboard the Lalla Ro

Miss Namibia, Michelle McLean, a six-foot-tall model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand, the first eve

Afrikaans becomes one of the official languages of the Union of South Africa following the introduction and passing of a bill b

WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Sir Harold Alexander’s 18th Army Group captures Bizerte and Tunis. All that rema

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

Cornelis Goover and twenty-four men land at Warwijk’s Haven, Mauritius, to establish a Dutch settlement on the island. Their ta

UN Security Council extends sanctions imposed on Liberia in 2001 for allegedly aiding rebels in Sierra Leone. The sanctions inc

Irene Charnley, Executive Director of Johnnic, trustee of several funds and winner of the Businesswoman of the Year Award 2000,

The Government states in Parliament that 18,000 persons have been arrested and detained since the proclamation of the emergency

Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher dies in Still Bay, Western Cape. She was a founder member of the Austin Robe

General Law Amendment Act No 37 commences. Section 17, the ninety-day detention law, authorises any commissioned officer to det

Representatives of South Africa, United States, Angola and Cuba meet in London (3-4 May) in search of a solution to the Angolan

Adriaan van Jaarsveld, frontier commandant and leader of the burghers who drove Landdros Maynier away in 1795, is born. Van