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… Jacobus Jonker, discovers a 726 (or 500?) carats diamond, the Jonker Diamond, on the farm Elandsfontein near Pretor …

… Mpumalanga game ranger, Sibusiso Vilane, becomes the first Black South African to conquer Mount Everest, the world’s highest pe …

… Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) contests the second democratic election, but performs badly and gets one seat in the Nati …

… In a letter to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, lawyers for the NP demand an unconditional apology from chairman Desmon …

… Jacob Ludwig Döhne (67), missionary of the Berlin Bible Society and translator of the New Testament in Zulu, dies. …

… The Transkei administration withdraws Proclamation no 4 of 1978, declaring the Methodist Church of Southern Africa to be an und …

… The Staatsmodelskool, built by President Kruger, was refurbished by Milner and opens as the Pretoria Boys High School, becoming …

… The Minister of Defence, P.W. Botha, accompanied by General … Hiemstra, Lieutenant-General J.P. Verster, Chief of the Air Force a …

… Former State President Marais Viljoen is buried it the Presidential Acre in Bloemfontein, after a service in the Pretoria East …

… The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) lists itself and, staying true to tradition, asks those invited to the listing breakfast …

… In response to Israel’s seizure of Gaza, Egypt closes the Suez Canal and breaks diplomatic ties with the west. …

… Zahi Hawass and fellow Egyptologists announce the discovery of a workers’ cemetery and village just beyond Heit el-Shorab (the …

… Dr. Piet Koornhof declares that, pending the implementation of the Orderly Movement and Settlement of Black Persons Bill, …

… The Chief Executive Councillor of Kwazulu, Chief Buthelezi, … condemns plans to consolidate Zululand in terms of the 1936 Trust a …

… The Cobra militia of former President Denis Sassou-Nguesso takes control of the centre of Brazzaville, Republic of Congo. …

… ”Trumpet Call to Youth”, Flyer issued by the Provisional Executive Committee of the Congress Youth League. 10 September 1944 …

… It is announced that the IEC has hired 10,300 observers to monitor the first democratic election in April. …

… The constitution of the ZAR (South African Republic) is finally ratified by a …

… Local elections held in the Western Cape result in the National Party securing control of all three district …

… The prime minister rejects the idea of a ‘canton’ system saying it is certainly not …

… The Rev. Willem Johannes Conradie, author of the first Afrikaans Bible retold for children, is born in …

… and Tunisia announce agreement to merge as a new republic, the Islamic Arab Republic". The …

… The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Gideon Nieuwoudt, former police officer, for the death of Steve Biko …

… (2004). Footballer of the decade: Bafana Bafana record. Kick Off. Special ed. … The away game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Zambia ends in a tie …

… missionary, church historian and first archivist of the DRC in the Cape, is born in Cape Town. …

… a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing 255 people by the official count. The unofficial death …

… Phatho, chief of the mixed XhosaHottentot (Khoi-Khoi) people the Gqunukwebe and other Xhosa chiefs attend a great …

… Louis Buys, chief director of disaster management at the department of provincial and local government, says the South African …

… Mass celebration takes place in the streets of Lilongwe, Malawi, following the arrest of former president Hastings Kamuzu Banda …

… charged with financial impropriety, agrees not to take up the post of Ambassador to the United Nations. …