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The government’s White Paper on the Riekert Commission rejects two crucial recommendations that employers of illegal labour, an

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Anglo-Boer War 2: “Steinaecker’s Horse”, an irregular unit of about fifty mercenaries in British service, using Black armed t

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General J.M.B. Hertzog’s National Party wins the South African general election with an outright majority: race plays a critica

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The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaims the establishment of an independent Palestinian stat

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Central African Republic becomes an autonomous member of the French Commonwealth with Boganda as president. (Now a National Da

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Fifty-four members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated by an Egyptian Military court during a pre-election purge.

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Abel Ngwenya, Daveyton, dies in police custody, allegedly from an epileptic fit, but the pathologist indicated violence involve

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Ten MK members are killed when an alleged member of MK pulls a grenade at a party in Sebokeng, PWV.

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Johannes Frederik Janse van Rensburg (Hans) is appointed as leader of the Ossewabrandwag (OB), an Afrikaner cultural movement,

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Guy Tachard, a French astronomer, sets up an observatory in die Company Gardens at the Cape of Good Hope.

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In Abuja, a senator announces that Nigeria’s Senate has launched an investigation into allegations that several people were kil

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A bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures seventy-six Blacks seeking registr

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Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup

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Nine people are hurt in an explosion in front of the Cape-Central police offices (previously Caledon Plain).

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Frederick Wells, an official of the Premier Diamond Company, finds the Cullinan diamond, the largest diamond ever found.

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Mohandas Ghandi finally reaches an agreement with the South African Union government over rights of Indian nationals (voluntary

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Governor Isbrand Goske dispatches an expedition to Hottentots Holland to decide whether the district is suitable for permanent

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Belgian aviator Albert Kimmerling gives a successful flying display in Johannesburg, an event marking the start of serious avia

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More than 1000 people are reported drowned or missing when an Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea.

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Wouter Basson, a scientist who headed South Africa’s covert chemicaland germ-warfare operations during the apartheid era, is ac

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An elderly resident of Pretoria, Hester Scheepers, of the Moot, dies five days before her 105th birthday.

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Wouter Basson, a scientist who headed South Africa’s covert chemicaland germ-warfare operations during the apartheid era, is ac

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UN troops defending an airfield in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by ‘mobs’.

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Suspected guerrillas using RPG 7 rocket-launchers attack the Soweto City Council offices. An hour later, 3 limpet mine blas

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Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, Presi

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The Transkei Territorial Authority, instituted in 1956 to replace the former Bunga, becomes an all-Black administrative body.

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An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.

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Dinana Mbetheni (21) is found hanging from an electric wire tied to a bar in his cell in Alice.

A call to all: now is the time to take an active role in the struggle for human dignity

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Date of the first preserved entry in the journal of Adam Tas, an early Cape Dutch ‘free burger’

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The government’s White Paper on the Riekert Commission rejects two crucial recommendations that employers of illegal labour, an

Anglo-Boer War 2: “Steinaecker’s Horse”, an irregular unit of about fifty mercenaries in British service, using Black armed t

General J.M.B. Hertzog’s National Party wins the South African general election with an outright majority: race plays a critica

The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaims the establishment of an independent Palestinian stat

Central African Republic becomes an autonomous member of the French Commonwealth with Boganda as president. (Now a National Da

Fifty-four members of the Muslim Brotherhood are incarcerated by an Egyptian Military court during a pre-election purge.

Abel Ngwenya, Daveyton, dies in police custody, allegedly from an epileptic fit, but the pathologist indicated violence involve

Ten MK members are killed when an alleged member of MK pulls a grenade at a party in Sebokeng, PWV.

Johannes Frederik Janse van Rensburg (Hans) is appointed as leader of the Ossewabrandwag (OB), an Afrikaner cultural movement,

Guy Tachard, a French astronomer, sets up an observatory in die Company Gardens at the Cape of Good Hope.

In Abuja, a senator announces that Nigeria’s Senate has launched an investigation into allegations that several people were kil

A bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures seventy-six Blacks seeking registr

Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup

Nine people are hurt in an explosion in front of the Cape-Central police offices (previously Caledon Plain).

Frederick Wells, an official of the Premier Diamond Company, finds the Cullinan diamond, the largest diamond ever found.

Mohandas Ghandi finally reaches an agreement with the South African Union government over rights of Indian nationals (voluntary

Governor Isbrand Goske dispatches an expedition to Hottentots Holland to decide whether the district is suitable for permanent

Belgian aviator Albert Kimmerling gives a successful flying display in Johannesburg, an event marking the start of serious avia

More than 1000 people are reported drowned or missing when an Egyptian ferry sinks in the Red Sea.

Wouter Basson, a scientist who headed South Africa’s covert chemicaland germ-warfare operations during the apartheid era, is ac

An elderly resident of Pretoria, Hester Scheepers, of the Moot, dies five days before her 105th birthday.

Wouter Basson, a scientist who headed South Africa’s covert chemicaland germ-warfare operations during the apartheid era, is ac

UN troops defending an airfield in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by ‘mobs’.

Suspected guerrillas using RPG 7 rocket-launchers attack the Soweto City Council offices. An hour later, 3 limpet mine blas

Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, Presi

The Transkei Territorial Authority, instituted in 1956 to replace the former Bunga, becomes an all-Black administrative body.

An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.

Dinana Mbetheni (21) is found hanging from an electric wire tied to a bar in his cell in Alice.

A call to all: now is the time to take an active role in the struggle for human dignity

Date of the first preserved entry in the journal of Adam Tas, an early Cape Dutch ‘free burger’