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EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
A United Nations report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000. The report came five years after the Centre for Disease Control…
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Some 2 500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians, the first outside forces sent there since UN. Secretary-General
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The Rwanda Genocide. At least 500,000 are reported as dead from the fighting between Tutsi and Hutu in Rwanda.
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Natal, annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, becomes a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. (Muller (ed): 500
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500,000 people attend a papal mass in Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th century Madag
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500,000 people attend a papal mass in Madagascar where Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo, a 19th century Madag
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Sir Leander Starr Jameson and about 500 Rhodesian police surrender at Doornkop, near Krugersdorp, after the failure of the Jame
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The 50th anniversary of ‘D-Day’ (end of World War 2) is commemorated.
EventSeparate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of 1968 is enacted
The Coloured Persons Representative Council was formed with forty elected members and twenty nominated members. It had legislative powers to make laws…
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The South African rugby team beats South America 50-18 in Pretoria.
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Raymond Suttner talks about the upcoming 50th Anniversary of MK (Video)
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Ronald Draper, cricketer (South African batsman vs Australia 1949-50), is born.
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
Allan Aubury Boesak was born at Kakamas, Northern Cape, one of eight children. His father, a schoolteacher, died when Boesak was six years old. He was raised…
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A Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town attended by 1 500 people. Among the first to volunte
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Martin West, first lieutenant governor of Natal after annexation by the British on 12 May 1843, dies. (Muller: 500 Years: a his
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Two months after the start of the carnage in Rwanda, the UN Security Council approves the dispatch of 5 500 peacekeepers with a
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Declaration by about 1,500 Mayors calling for the release of Nelson Mandela and all other South African political prisoners pub
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At least 4,500 people die when two earthquakes strike North West Algeria. In El-Asnam (formerly Orleansville) and its surroundi
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Wheelchair athlete Ernst van Dyk, cut off from a certain gold medal by Mexico’s Saul Mendoza in the 1 500m final Athens Pa
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A Nigerian freighter with 3 500 Liberian war refugees is allowed to dock in Ghana after being turned away from African ports fo
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Following the and the protest at Langa, roughly 1,500 Blacks are detained by the South African police in Cape Town.
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Three people die and at least 500 are left homeless when a tornado cuts a path of destruction through the KwaZulu-Natal Midland
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An estimated 500 people suspected of being rebels have been executed by Congo government forces in Stanleyville in six weeks si
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OAU-AU 50th Anniversary Lecture by ANC President Jacob Zuma East London, 26 October 2013
Director of the Programme, Vice Chancellor and Principal of the Fort Hare University, Dr Mvuyo Tom, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive…
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Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter - June 26 1955-June 26 2005
All rights reserved. You may copy material from this publication for use in non-profit education programmes if you acknowledge the source. For use in…
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SA signs amendment of Article 50(A) of the Convention on International Civil Aviation.
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Horace William Chapman (50), SA cricket player in two tests, dies in Durban.
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John William Burchell arrives in England from an expedition to SA and St Helena, with 60 000 natural-historical samples and 500
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At least fifty-three British soldiers die, 130 are wounded and 500 captured in a surprise attack by Boer tr
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