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De Gaulle takes complete control of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algeria and, in a promise of a power-share a

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Dawid Johannes Rhoode, first professor of music at the University of the Orange Free State and director of music examinations a

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The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.

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The free burgher exiles, Henning Huijzing, Jacobus van der Heijde, Ferdinandus Appel, Pieter van der Bijl and Jan van Meerlant,

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A court in England convicts two Algerian illegal immigrants of raising funds for the al-Qaida terror network, and sentences bot

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The Minister for Safety and Security, Mr Steve Tshwete, in co-operation with the National Commissioner of the SAPS, launches a

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The battle of Gingindlovu during the Anglo-Zulu War takes place. The British defeat Cetshwayo and the kraal is destroyed.

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Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, SA anthropologist and consul-general of the Orange Free State, is born in Rotterdam, the Nether

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The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t

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The South African Naval Service is founded. With the ships the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a

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The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw

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Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee

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It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.

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The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta

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Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van

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Tumi Padi and Nokuzolo, both MK’s, are shot dead in Soweto. Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the rep

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Elvis Rathogwa, chair of FAWU shop stewards’ council, disappears in Wynberg. The farm fare management claimed that they had acc

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The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the &quot;young and e

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WWII: North Africa. Rommel is instructed by Berlin to leave Tobruk to the Italians and concentrate his Deutsches Afrika Korps o

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Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi

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At a news conference, the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu says it is difficult

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The Rev. T.C. (oom Essie) Esterhuysen, missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Transvaal, is born in C

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The Soweto City Council serves notices on Winnie Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Nthato Motlana and Ellen Kuzwayo to pay their rent

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S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Kathlehong. The Sekano N

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Ignoring international pleas to end their two-year border conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea return to open war with fighting repor

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A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven.

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Urgent supplies, including tanks and aircraft arrive at the Egyptian port of Alexandria with the convoy, code-named ‘Tiger’. Ge

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Joubert, commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republie

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Pres. Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, arrive at the Cape Town International Airport, the first American president to visit S

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De Gaulle takes complete control of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algeria and, in a promise of a power-share a

Dawid Johannes Rhoode, first professor of music at the University of the Orange Free State and director of music examinations a

The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.

The free burgher exiles, Henning Huijzing, Jacobus van der Heijde, Ferdinandus Appel, Pieter van der Bijl and Jan van Meerlant,

A court in England convicts two Algerian illegal immigrants of raising funds for the al-Qaida terror network, and sentences bot

The Minister for Safety and Security, Mr Steve Tshwete, in co-operation with the National Commissioner of the SAPS, launches a

The battle of Gingindlovu during the Anglo-Zulu War takes place. The British defeat Cetshwayo and the kraal is destroyed.

Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, SA anthropologist and consul-general of the Orange Free State, is born in Rotterdam, the Nether

The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t

The South African Naval Service is founded. With the ships the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a

The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw

Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee

It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.

The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta

Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van

Tumi Padi and Nokuzolo, both MK’s, are shot dead in Soweto. Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the rep

Elvis Rathogwa, chair of FAWU shop stewards’ council, disappears in Wynberg. The farm fare management claimed that they had acc

The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the &amp;quot;young and e

WWII: North Africa. Rommel is instructed by Berlin to leave Tobruk to the Italians and concentrate his Deutsches Afrika Korps o

Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, is born in Zürich, Switzerland. Her parents emi

At a news conference, the chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu says it is difficult

The Rev. T.C. (oom Essie) Esterhuysen, missionary and moderator of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Transvaal, is born in C

The Soweto City Council serves notices on Winnie Mandela, Albertina Sisulu, Nthato Motlana and Ellen Kuzwayo to pay their rent

S.G. Sekano Ntoane, church moderator and pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Kathlehong. The Sekano N

Ignoring international pleas to end their two-year border conflict, Ethiopia and Eritrea return to open war with fighting repor

A bus on its way to Mount Frere in Transkei overturns near Cathcart, killing thirty-one people and injuring thirty-seven.

Urgent supplies, including tanks and aircraft arrive at the Egyptian port of Alexandria with the convoy, code-named ‘Tiger’. Ge

Anglo-Boer War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche

Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Joubert, commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republie

Pres. Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, arrive at the Cape Town International Airport, the first American president to visit S

The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the "young and e