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First day of office for Tito Mboweni as President of the SA Reserve Bank, succeeding Dr Chris Stals. He was inaugurated on the
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The Citizen reports that the film, Cry Freedom, based on the life and death of Steve Biko was banned by the Bophuthatswana and
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Anna Louisa (Annie) Visser, SA singer who was one of the first singers to record Afrikaans songs, is born on the farm Lokshoek,
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The first 200 members of a West African peacekeeping force arrive in Liberia in an effort to stop more than two months of fight
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An event unique in the SAAF history takes place. The SAAF squadron that was placed at the disposal of the United Nations Organi
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The government of Ghana imposes a total ban on the export of all produce to South Africa and South West Africa, as a protest ag
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The Cape Town city hall is inaugurated five years after the corner stone was laid and while the building is still in progress.
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Raphael Ndukwe Chukwu, foreign football player who plays for SA and who was winner of the Kick Off Footballer of the Season, 97
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Barney Barnato (44) dies when he jumps overboard the Scot near Madeira. He was on his way from Cape Town to Southampton and
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The Council of Policy resolves to settle Sheik Yusuf, brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape and came
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Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Napoleon, the Prince Imperial of France is born in Paris, France. He was killed in Zululand in the Ang
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President Teodoro Obiang Nguema thanks SA and Angola for warning him of the plot to overthrow his government and says it was fu
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President Teodoro Obiang Nguema thanks SA and Angola for warning him of the plot to overthrow his government and says it was fu
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Abraham Gabbema, fiscal at the Cape, calls the front rock of the mountain near the Great Berg River, wet with dew and glitterin
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Thirty-one SA pilots participates in the air-lift to provide food and fuel to West Berlin. The operation continued for seven mo
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The Rev. Paul Hendrik Roux, chaplain and general during Anglo-Boer War 2, after whom Paul Roux, OFS, was named, is born in Hope
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The Susan Crisp (198 tons) is wrecked and five crewmembers are missing near Plettenberg Bay. She was on her way to remove provi
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Sir George Grey, governor of the Cape Colony from 1854-1861, with the exception of a few months when he was recalled, dies in L
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Sir George Grey, governor of the Cape Colony from 1854-1861, with the exception of a few months when he was recalled, dies in L
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James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at
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Calvin Thusago, a reporter for SABC is stabbed to death by a mob of youths as they travel back from Sharpeville to film the des
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The proposed peace proposals agreed on by a commission of five, Botha, De la Rey, De Wet and Hertzog, with Ki
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A self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the ANC, Olivia Forsyth, who was held prisoner at ANC Quatro prison camp for
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The Jonker diamond, fourth largest stone on record, is cut in three after an intensive study of three months. It was found by
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The Star reports that a police sergeant was shot dead in Osizweni township at Newcastle, Natal, by a man armed with an AK-47 ri
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Security forces round up more than 10,000 men in the biggest anti-Mau Mau operation since the state of emergency was declared i
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James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at
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Calvin Thusago, a reporter for SABC is stabbed to death by a mob of youths as they travel back from Sharpeville to film the des
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George Rex (74), believed to be the son of George III and Hannah Lightfoot, who was banned to the Cape, dies in Knysna.
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