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Jan C. de Waal (92), farmer who endeavoured to increase sheep numbers in the Orange Free State after the Anglo-Boer War and who

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It is announced that the referendum will be held on 2 November 1983, with the Whites being asked whether they are in favour of

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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.

Document 115 - Hawa H. Ahmed (Halima Gool), Address Delivered at Inaugural Meeting of the Non-European Women’s Suffrage League, Cosmopolitan Hall, Cape August--1938

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Louis Thibault, SA architect of several well-known houses in the western Cape and also the Lutheran Church in Cape Town, is bor

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At a meeting in Durban City hall Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini tells President de Klerk that he is prepared to set up a Zulu Ki

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The SA government and the ANC agree to a plan which will lead to Black majority rule by 1999. In 1994 a parliament of 400 m

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It is reported in London that the British government will not issue a permit for the export of the ground-to-air missiles South

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News 24 reports that South Africa will foot an R11.2m bill to upgrade a monument in Mbuzini, south of Komatipoort, at the site

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Cape Muslim groups warn that the country will be made ungovernable if Yacoob Jacobs, who was wounded by the Police in Cape Town

Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the toast by the Governor-General of Canada, Rideau Hall, Ottawa: 3 November 2003.

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Johanna Duminy, writer of the well-known Duminy journal in which she gives a vivid description of life at the Cape, is born in

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A Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned PAC, Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit (gr

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Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Rubaina says his visit to South Africa will pave the way for an extended state visit by Cuban Pr

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At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men are found guilty of high treason, as well a

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Royal sources announce Swaziland’s King Mswati III will introduce a 17-year-old schoolgirl as his 13th bride-to-be once she pas

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According to Nongqawuse’s prophecy to the Xhosa people, on this day the sun will rise and set again in the east and a whirlwind

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Dr Willem Henry Jacobus Punt, founder of the ‘Stigting Simon van der Stel’ (Simon van der Stel Foundation) and well-known SA cu

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An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the

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The ‘Committee of 81’, representing all Coloured schools and colleges in the Western Cape, decides to end class boycotts.

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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha announces that all senior members of the South African diplomatic mission in Salisbury have been w

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The Government of India announces that it was lifting, with immediate effect, all consular and visa restrictions, cultural, spo

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The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr

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The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr

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Anglo-Boer War: Republican forces under Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog attack Jagersfontein and release all prisoners in the gaol before t

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ANC leaders meet homeland leaders in Soweto. All except KwaZulu’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi agree to act together in deciding princi

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The Prins Albert is wrecked in a storm near Plettenberg Bay. The cargo and all on board and are rescued.

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The leaders of seven of the country’s nine Black homelands i.e. all except Chiefs Matanzima (Transkei) and Mangope (Bophuthatsw

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Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the Cape, declares the maintenance of British authority over all emigrant Boers and defines

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Sudanese rebel group claims responsibility for shooting down Sudan Airways passenger plane in which all sixty people aboard wer

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Jan C. de Waal (92), farmer who endeavoured to increase sheep numbers in the Orange Free State after the Anglo-Boer War and who

It is announced that the referendum will be held on 2 November 1983, with the Whites being asked whether they are in favour of

The Cape Town city hall is inaugurated five years after the corner stone was laid and while the building is still in progress.

Document 115 - Hawa H. Ahmed (Halima Gool), Address Delivered at Inaugural Meeting of the Non-European Women’s Suffrage League, Cosmopolitan Hall, Cape August--1938

Louis Thibault, SA architect of several well-known houses in the western Cape and also the Lutheran Church in Cape Town, is bor

At a meeting in Durban City hall Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini tells President de Klerk that he is prepared to set up a Zulu Ki

The SA government and the ANC agree to a plan which will lead to Black majority rule by 1999. In 1994 a parliament of 400 m

It is reported in London that the British government will not issue a permit for the export of the ground-to-air missiles South

News 24 reports that South Africa will foot an R11.2m bill to upgrade a monument in Mbuzini, south of Komatipoort, at the site

Cape Muslim groups warn that the country will be made ungovernable if Yacoob Jacobs, who was wounded by the Police in Cape Town

Reply by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the toast by the Governor-General of Canada, Rideau Hall, Ottawa: 3 November 2003.

Johanna Duminy, writer of the well-known Duminy journal in which she gives a vivid description of life at the Cape, is born in

A Pretoria court rules that the former leader of the banned PAC, Robert Sobukwe, will not be allowed to use his exit permit (gr

Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Rubaina says his visit to South Africa will pave the way for an extended state visit by Cuban Pr

At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men are found guilty of high treason, as well a

Royal sources announce Swaziland’s King Mswati III will introduce a 17-year-old schoolgirl as his 13th bride-to-be once she pas

According to Nongqawuse’s prophecy to the Xhosa people, on this day the sun will rise and set again in the east and a whirlwind

Dr Willem Henry Jacobus Punt, founder of the ‘Stigting Simon van der Stel’ (Simon van der Stel Foundation) and well-known SA cu

An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the

The ‘Committee of 81’, representing all Coloured schools and colleges in the Western Cape, decides to end class boycotts.

Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha announces that all senior members of the South African diplomatic mission in Salisbury have been w

The Government of India announces that it was lifting, with immediate effect, all consular and visa restrictions, cultural, spo

The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr

The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr

Anglo-Boer War: Republican forces under Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog attack Jagersfontein and release all prisoners in the gaol before t

ANC leaders meet homeland leaders in Soweto. All except KwaZulu’s Mangosuthu Buthelezi agree to act together in deciding princi

The Prins Albert is wrecked in a storm near Plettenberg Bay. The cargo and all on board and are rescued.

The leaders of seven of the country’s nine Black homelands i.e. all except Chiefs Matanzima (Transkei) and Mangope (Bophuthatsw

Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the Cape, declares the maintenance of British authority over all emigrant Boers and defines

Sudanese rebel group claims responsibility for shooting down Sudan Airways passenger plane in which all sixty people aboard wer