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Daniel Mbulaheni Mudau, Sundown’s striker who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Top Goal scorer of the Decade, is born in
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World War II: East Africa. South African troops are landed at Tulearon (Toliara) on the south west coast of Madagascar, to supp
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Ingrid Jonker, SA poet whose poem ‘Die Kind’ was read by President Nelson Mandela during his first opening of parliament, is bo
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Germany apologises for the massacre of some 65 000 Hereros in South-West Africa (Namibia) by their soldiers during the 1904 reb
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Norbert Sfiso Buthelezi, businessman and CEO of the National Gambling Board of SA since 1999, is born in Nquthu, Natal. He was
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On the eve of the election in South West Africa (Namibia), the Swapo leader Sam Nujoma arrives in Windhoek, after nearly thirty
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On the eve of the election in South West Africa (Namibia), the Swapo leader Sam Nujoma arrives in Windhoek, after nearly thirty
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WWI: The first ships with SA soldiers on board leave for the ports of German South West Africa to invade the territory.
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The chairman of the Central Road Board of the Cape Colony, P.B. Borcherds, opens Bain’s Kloof Pass to traffic. The pass was d
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The South African Police takes over the tasks of the German South-West African police. 423 members of the disbanded police forc
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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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Thomas Tommy Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy), SA artist, is born at the East Rand, Johannesburg. He was born deaf and atten
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The three villages clustered about the mouth of the Buffalo: East London West Bank; East London East Bank, and Panmure, are mer
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George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se
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Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure,
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On a meeting, twelve days after the first one on which was decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name De Burger is decide
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Jan Christian Smuts, who was to become the Union of South Africa’s second prime minister, is born on the farm Bovenplaats near
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Major-General Sir Henry Lukin, who fought in the Zulu War, campaigned in German South West Africa and commanded the South Afric
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators, Generals Botha, De Wet, De la Rey, Smuts and Hertzog attend peace talks in Pretoria with Lo
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King Hintsa ka Phalo of the Xhosa nation is killed by British troops. Another source alleges that he was shot dead by a c
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Andre George Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player and lawyer who was awarded the accolade, ‘Playmaker of the Decade’ by Kick Off for
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators, Generals Botha, De Wet, De la Rey, Smuts and Hertzog attend peace talks in Pretoria with Lo
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Brenda Fassi, SA diva, dies in her sleep. She was admitted to the Sunninghill Hospital after an asthma attack two weeks previou
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Two delegates of the UN, Dr Victorio Carpio and Dr Salvadore Martinez de Alva, visit South West Africa (now Namibia) after talk
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Prince James Mahlangu is elected as new chief minister of KwaNdebele after a motion of no confidence in Mr Mabena was passed in
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Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, commissioner-general at the Cape after whom the town Uitenhage was named, is born in the Nethe
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Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, commissioner-general at the Cape after whom the town Uitenhage was named, is born in the Nethe
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The Rajab brothers opens their second cinema, the Shiraz. The cinema was housed in the new Rajab Centre in Victoria Street, Dur
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George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se
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