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Shaun MacLean Pollock, Springbok cricket player and son of the Springbok Peter Pollock, is born.

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The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal

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Europeans and Americans are reportedly fleeing Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, as more Nigerian Federal troops

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Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle, interpreter, insurance agent, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria. He was w

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Judge Ivan Curlewis (42) dies in the same year he was appointed judge of Transvaal.

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Dolf van der Merwe, Springbok water skier, is born in Somerset West.

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Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo,

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Ronald Mylchreest, S.A sculptor, is born in Johannesburg.

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WW1: The South African brigade is called to capture Delville Wood in France in a fierce two-day battle.

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Alfred Beit (53), friend of Cecil John Rhodes and co-founder of De Beers Mining Company and Southern Rhodesia, dies.

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Anglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in SA. The co

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Anglo-Boer War 2 -In the Free State, Lieutenant-General E.L. Elliot’s drive ends. At the cost of only three British casualties,

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen reoccupies Rustenburg. This is the 3rd British occupation of the town.

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Three commandos under the newly appointed Combat General Viljoen, attack about 4 650 British soldiers with twenty field guns an

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Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag

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The visiting Dutch commissioner, Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, gives several instructions to Gov. Simon van der Stel regarding im

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In a rare display of force, UN troops launch a rescue mission that frees all 222 peacekeepers and eleven military observers tra

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Sonarand video images of the SS Waratah, that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board on her voyage from

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Hercules Pretorius (14) is killed by a shark in Buffels Bay, Western Cape.

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Irma du Preez (27), vice-president of the Eastern Province Netball Union and Lia Liebenberg (43), manager of the Avion Netball

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Nigeria’s military government orders the immediate release of at least 400 people imprisoned under the late military ruler Gen.

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Three motorcars are burned, another twenty damaged and an auditorium set alight when 3 000 members of the National Union of Min

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Three children die near Ladysmith, Natal, as pleasure-seekers without warning open the floodgates of the Windsor Dam.

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A grenade attack is launched on the ANC headquarters in Johannesburg. It is blamed by the ANC on a ‘third force’, and is linked

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General Constand Viljoen reassures RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama that the agreement between South Africa and Mozambique to sett

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Tens of thousands of Hutus flee the Tutsi-led rebel advance in Rwanda, flooding across the border into Zaire in one of the grea

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Dominic Mahlangu, IFP’s Etholeni leader, is shot dead when unidentified attackers in a car pulled up outside his home.

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Shaun MacLean Pollock, Springbok cricket player and son of the Springbok Peter Pollock, is born.

The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal

Europeans and Americans are reportedly fleeing Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, as more Nigerian Federal troops

Ivory Coast closes sea and airports to South Africa and Portugal.

The SA rugby team beats New Zealand 15-11 on Newlands.

Roelf Meyer, former politician and NP negotiator at CODESA, is born.

Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle, interpreter, insurance agent, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria. He was w

Judge Ivan Curlewis (42) dies in the same year he was appointed judge of Transvaal.

Dolf van der Merwe, Springbok water skier, is born in Somerset West.

Sir Joseph Baynes (83), successful farmer and promoter of dairy farming and also SA minister of Lands and Works, dies in Ixopo,

Ronald Mylchreest, S.A sculptor, is born in Johannesburg.

WW1: The South African brigade is called to capture Delville Wood in France in a fierce two-day battle.

Alfred Beit (53), friend of Cecil John Rhodes and co-founder of De Beers Mining Company and Southern Rhodesia, dies.

Anglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in SA. The co

Anglo-Boer War 2 -In the Free State, Lieutenant-General E.L. Elliot’s drive ends. At the cost of only three British casualties,

Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen reoccupies Rustenburg. This is the 3rd British occupation of the town.

Three commandos under the newly appointed Combat General Viljoen, attack about 4 650 British soldiers with twenty field guns an

Anglo-Boer War 2 Start of the ‘first De Wet hunt’, when a two-pronged attack by Gens. Accurate Republican shelling repulses Pag

The visiting Dutch commissioner, Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, gives several instructions to Gov. Simon van der Stel regarding im

In a rare display of force, UN troops launch a rescue mission that frees all 222 peacekeepers and eleven military observers tra

Sonarand video images of the SS Waratah, that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board on her voyage from

Hercules Pretorius (14) is killed by a shark in Buffels Bay, Western Cape.

Irma du Preez (27), vice-president of the Eastern Province Netball Union and Lia Liebenberg (43), manager of the Avion Netball

Nigeria’s military government orders the immediate release of at least 400 people imprisoned under the late military ruler Gen.

Three motorcars are burned, another twenty damaged and an auditorium set alight when 3 000 members of the National Union of Min

Three children die near Ladysmith, Natal, as pleasure-seekers without warning open the floodgates of the Windsor Dam.

A grenade attack is launched on the ANC headquarters in Johannesburg. It is blamed by the ANC on a ‘third force’, and is linked

General Constand Viljoen reassures RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama that the agreement between South Africa and Mozambique to sett

Tens of thousands of Hutus flee the Tutsi-led rebel advance in Rwanda, flooding across the border into Zaire in one of the grea

Dominic Mahlangu, IFP’s Etholeni leader, is shot dead when unidentified attackers in a car pulled up outside his home.