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Patrice Lumumba of the Congo breaks off diplomatic relations with Belgium and calls on the United Nations and Soviet Union for

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Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) announces it’s functioning as the SACP, operating underground, after its dissolution in

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The SA rugby team loses the first test against New Zealand 6-10 in Dunedin.

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King Goodwill Zwelithini, Zulu monarch, is born.

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James Leonard (Peter) Klatzow, SA composer and pianist, is born in Springs, Transvaal.

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Pieter George du Plessis, Afrikaans dramatist and TV personality, is born in the district of Boshof, OFS.

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William (Gobo) Ashley, SA cricket player in a test against England (1888-89), dies in Plumtree, Rhodesia.

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President Paul Kruger (78), president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal) dies.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: British Gen. French drives Scheepers out of the Camdeboo Mountains and Major Moore, with a detachment of Conn

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Free State government is to dispense with the idea of a capital, and they become a government ‘in the fie

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Steyn of the OFS takes leave of his wife and four children at Fouriesburg, to be reunited only after th

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Adv. Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, 5th premier of SA, is born on the farm Klipfontein, district Willowmore, CP.

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Dr Stephanus Petrus Erasmus Boshoff, Afrikaner cultural leader, linguist and director of education, is born on Vaalbank, distri

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Johannes Henricus Brand (64), the fourth president of the Orange Free State, dies in Bloemfontein.

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Britain and Germany agree on frontiers of Gold Coast and Togoland in Africa.

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Reichskommissar (Imperial Commissioner) Gustav Nachtigal Nachtigal hoists the German flag over Cameroon.

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Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, dies in Cape Town. The town Maclea

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A group of San male prisoners, being escorted from Boshof to Bloemfontein to be tried, is stopped by a group of thirty armed Wh

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The Dorothys of Britain strands near Plettenberg Bay, but no lives are lost.

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Cape boundary extended: Simultaneous to the Trekboers’ deeper penetration of the interior, the boundary of the Cape Colony is e

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The Middenmark is driven on the rocks in Table Bay by a strong wind and seventy-five people drown.

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Johannes van der Walt, Afrikaans radio announcer and leader of a country-wide hiking club, dies of cancer in Johannesburg.

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SA tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men’s double title by beating twins Bob and Mike B

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Countries across Africa, South America and Central Asia express disappointment at a US decision to cut off military aid to doze

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The 40th person commits suicide by jumping from the Van Stadens River bridge near Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape.

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After talks with new ruler Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says all political prisoners will be relea

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The SA rugby team beats Fiji in Pretoria 43-18.

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The results of the local government elections in Kwazulu-Natal indicate that Inkatha polled 44.50 percent of the votes, the ANC

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The Plenary of the Multi-party Negotiating Process adopted by consensus twenty-seven constitutional principles, which, along wi

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President De Klerk offers to lower the margin of approval needed for changes in South Africa’s constitution from 75 per cent to

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Patrice Lumumba of the Congo breaks off diplomatic relations with Belgium and calls on the United Nations and Soviet Union for

Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) announces it’s functioning as the SACP, operating underground, after its dissolution in

The SA rugby team loses the first test against New Zealand 6-10 in Dunedin.

King Goodwill Zwelithini, Zulu monarch, is born.

James Leonard (Peter) Klatzow, SA composer and pianist, is born in Springs, Transvaal.

Pieter George du Plessis, Afrikaans dramatist and TV personality, is born in the district of Boshof, OFS.

William (Gobo) Ashley, SA cricket player in a test against England (1888-89), dies in Plumtree, Rhodesia.

President Paul Kruger (78), president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal) dies.

Anglo-Boer War 2: British Gen. French drives Scheepers out of the Camdeboo Mountains and Major Moore, with a detachment of Conn

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Free State government is to dispense with the idea of a capital, and they become a government ‘in the fie

Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Steyn of the OFS takes leave of his wife and four children at Fouriesburg, to be reunited only after th

Adv. Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, 5th premier of SA, is born on the farm Klipfontein, district Willowmore, CP.

Dr Stephanus Petrus Erasmus Boshoff, Afrikaner cultural leader, linguist and director of education, is born on Vaalbank, distri

Johannes Henricus Brand (64), the fourth president of the Orange Free State, dies in Bloemfontein.

Britain and Germany agree on frontiers of Gold Coast and Togoland in Africa.

Reichskommissar (Imperial Commissioner) Gustav Nachtigal Nachtigal hoists the German flag over Cameroon.

Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, dies in Cape Town. The town Maclea

A group of San male prisoners, being escorted from Boshof to Bloemfontein to be tried, is stopped by a group of thirty armed Wh

The Dorothys of Britain strands near Plettenberg Bay, but no lives are lost.

Cape boundary extended: Simultaneous to the Trekboers’ deeper penetration of the interior, the boundary of the Cape Colony is e

The Middenmark is driven on the rocks in Table Bay by a strong wind and seventy-five people drown.

Johannes van der Walt, Afrikaans radio announcer and leader of a country-wide hiking club, dies of cancer in Johannesburg.

SA tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men’s double title by beating twins Bob and Mike B

Countries across Africa, South America and Central Asia express disappointment at a US decision to cut off military aid to doze

The 40th person commits suicide by jumping from the Van Stadens River bridge near Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape.

After talks with new ruler Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says all political prisoners will be relea

The SA rugby team beats Fiji in Pretoria 43-18.

The results of the local government elections in Kwazulu-Natal indicate that Inkatha polled 44.50 percent of the votes, the ANC

The Plenary of the Multi-party Negotiating Process adopted by consensus twenty-seven constitutional principles, which, along wi

President De Klerk offers to lower the margin of approval needed for changes in South Africa’s constitution from 75 per cent to