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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,
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On proposal of Sir Pierre van Ryneveld a special service battalion is instituted in Pretoria to provide work for young men afte
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Derrick and Mavis Majola, ANC members, are shot dead in Mooi River, Natal, by four armed men bursting into their home.
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Derrick and Mavis Majola, ANC members, are shot dead in Mooi River, Natal, by four armed men bursting into their home.
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UN Security Council votes to ban flights and arms sales to Libya, branding it a terrorist state for shielding six men accused o
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Nearly one hundred officers and men of Wood’s column are killed in a desperate fight against a Zulu impi on Hlobane Mountain du
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The HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying US soldiers, is hit by a German missile off Algeria. 1 138 men are killed, inc
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In the Battle of Blood River, a Voortrekker commando of 470 men, under leadership of Andries Pretorius, is attacked at Ncome Ri
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Ryan Byisile Mapisa of Duncan Village disappears after being dragged into a car at his home by five men who identify themselves
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The second British offensive begins with a British invasion of the Orange Free State when almost 50,000 men a
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Five men are burned to death in Mdantsane, Ciskei. Mr M. Vellum escapes after already set alight with the five who died.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant J.H. Visser with 200 men attacks Kuruman, defended by only 35 members of the Cape Police, 33 local
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South African Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer is assaulted at home in Johannesburg by three men who lock her in a store room and
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Mr Justice W.H. Heath finds Bonakele Jwabi and fifteen other men guilty of murder relating to the abduction and burning to deat
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Four men die instantly when a car swerves to avoid a second which was spinning on the Odi race track and ploughed into spectato
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Clement Msomi, organiser of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), is shot dead by two men in a passing ca
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Ian Hamilton, commanding a force of about 6 000 men with twenty-six field guns, is sent to capture Co
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Lieutenant-Colonel M.O. Little, commanding the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of 738 mounted men, is ordered in the direc
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The State President commutes the death sentences on three Black men, for their part in the attack on the Soekmekaar Police Stat
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The battle of Roodewal Siding takes place near Koppies, OFS. Gen. De Wet and eighty men attack two comp
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Shortly before midnight five men drown and two are washed out to sea during what was supposed to be a routine baptism ceremony
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Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri
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South Africa is to expand its military call-up to include all White men aged between seventeen and sixty-five, almost doubling
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The Battle of Umzimtsani takes place during the Ninth Border War. Seventy men of the Prince Alfred’s Guard unit are attacked by
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Matthews Mapumolo, ANC member, dies in police custody after he was accosted at home in Swaziland by a group of armed men, shot,
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The number of men required for military training in 1964 is to increase by 60%, i.e. from 10,368 to 16,537.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Ben Viljoen and seven men are ambushed and captured by the British. His pocket book saves his life b
Biography
Luvuyo Mgobhozi
Luvuyo Mgobhozi along with three other African National Congress (ANC) members were executed in what became known as the "Quarry Road" incident near Durban on…
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Statement on ANC central number and information line, 10 October 2005
… Simply dial 086 717 7077 and choose option 2 from the main menu. …
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Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…