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Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever

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Prof. Russel Botman is appointed as rector of the University of Stellenbosch. He is the first theologian and also the first mem

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The SA Communist Party, in alliance with the African National Congress and the Congress of Trade Unions will use mass action in

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Nine staff members of a training company and a pilot are killed when their plane crashes near the N17 freeway minutes after tak

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Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.

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Schalk Willem Burger, vice-president and acting president of the ZAR after President Kruger left for Europe in 1900, dies at Go

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South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on

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The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu

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South Africa plays for the first time on the Wanderers in a cricket test against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and wins wit

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The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, to which SA is a party, is signed i

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It is announced in Pretoria that Dr. Carel de Wet, M.P. for Vanderbijlpark, Transvaal and grandson of General C.R. de Wet, a le

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Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu

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In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen years, 75 people are killed and 76 injured w

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Gen. Manie (Salomon Gerhardus) Maritz, member of the brave Danie Theron scout corps in Anglo-Boer War 2 and one of the leaders

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Sir John George Fraser, SA statesman and private secretary of Pres. J.H. Brand of the OFS, is born in Beaufort West, Karoo.

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A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy

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Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa

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Following the elections, ten new senators are chosen and appointed by the Prime Minister, on the same day that the electoral co

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Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for &quot;blasphemous libels on Cape ladies&quot; and is sentenced to beg thei

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The creation of a community of separate and sovereign states is laid down as the official policy of the National Party in its e

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Sir Robert N. Kotze (82), SA mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines and who was mainly responsible f

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Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping

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SA golf player and world number three, Ernie Els, scores his second victory in seven days after his third Dubai Desert Classic

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Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of

This day in history

Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter

This day in history

Minister of Education and Culture Piet Clase, says in parliament that on the tenth school day of 1989, the number of African, C

This day in history

A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW

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Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al

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The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been

This day in history

Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,

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Violence erupts in Paarl when about 200 Blacks march in the early hours from Mbekweni and attack the police station where sever

Prof. Russel Botman is appointed as rector of the University of Stellenbosch. He is the first theologian and also the first mem

The SA Communist Party, in alliance with the African National Congress and the Congress of Trade Unions will use mass action in

Nine staff members of a training company and a pilot are killed when their plane crashes near the N17 freeway minutes after tak

Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.

Schalk Willem Burger, vice-president and acting president of the ZAR after President Kruger left for Europe in 1900, dies at Go

South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on

The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu

South Africa plays for the first time on the Wanderers in a cricket test against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and wins wit

The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, to which SA is a party, is signed i

It is announced in Pretoria that Dr. Carel de Wet, M.P. for Vanderbijlpark, Transvaal and grandson of General C.R. de Wet, a le

Thomas Mokopu Mofolo, Basuto author who tried to capture the customs and spirit of the African people, is born in Khojane, Basu

In the worst disaster on the accident-prone Egyptian railways in more than fifteen years, 75 people are killed and 76 injured w

Gen. Manie (Salomon Gerhardus) Maritz, member of the brave Danie Theron scout corps in Anglo-Boer War 2 and one of the leaders

Sir John George Fraser, SA statesman and private secretary of Pres. J.H. Brand of the OFS, is born in Beaufort West, Karoo.

A new UN register of sport’s people with South African ties is published in London, naming 2611 people and warning that the boy

Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa

Following the elections, ten new senators are chosen and appointed by the Prime Minister, on the same day that the electoral co

Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for &amp;quot;blasphemous libels on Cape ladies&amp;quot; and is sentenced to beg thei

The creation of a community of separate and sovereign states is laid down as the official policy of the National Party in its e

Sir Robert N. Kotze (82), SA mining engineer who did much for the promotion of safety in mines and who was mainly responsible f

Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping

SA golf player and world number three, Ernie Els, scores his second victory in seven days after his third Dubai Desert Classic

Benjamin Jennings (Ben) Caddy, militant trade unionist who was arrested in the 1922 strike and who is regarded as the doyen of

Esther Masuku, mother of youth activist and SACC member Oupa Masuku, is killed in a hand grenade attack on their house in Atter

Minister of Education and Culture Piet Clase, says in parliament that on the tenth school day of 1989, the number of African, C

A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW

Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al

The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been

Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,

Jan Wouters is found guilty in court in the Cape for "blasphemous libels on Cape ladies" and is sentenced to beg thei