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Opening of Delagoa Bay Railway. According to SESA, the regular railway service between Pretoria and Lourenço Marques stared

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Ruth (Ethel) Prowse, SA artist in whose house the Ruth Prowse Art Centre was opened, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape.

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Jan Gerritze Bantjes, teacher and secretary to the provisional Voortrekker administration and to Comdt.-Gen. Andries Pretorius,

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Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.

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The expedition of August Friedrich Beutler reaches Tembuland, which he enters on his map as “Tamboegies Land”. From there they

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Baron Pieter van Rheede, appointed governor of the Cape who died at sea on his way to the Cape, is born in Utrecht, the Netherl

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Herry, also known as Autshumao, Khoi-Khoi interpreter and chief of the Goringhaikonas, is banished to Robben Island

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Navigator Vasco da Gama departs from Portugal at the head of a fleet in search of a sea route to India. His fleet sailed along

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SABC Sport reporter Maseru Koaho, known for his expertise in football and boxing reporting, is killed in a car crash on the N12

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This Day reports that the SA movie, Senter, produced by students from the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Liv

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US President George W Bush’s administration acknowledges for the first time that Bush relied on faulty intelligence when he cla

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Nigeria’s most prominent political prisoner, Moshood Abiola, dies of an apparent heart attack a few days before he was expected

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Brig. Theuns Swanepoel (”Rooi Rus”) (70), one of the most feared interrogators of the SA Security Police, dies in Roodepoort.

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In a television broadcast President Mandela confirms that he will not stand for re-election in 1999.

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Eleven residents are killed in Katlehong in ongoing township violence in Katlehong and Tokoza.

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In SA’s first ever Fifa sanctioned match the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Cameroon 1-0 in an international friendly gam

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An illegal demonstration in Kenya becomes known as the “Saba Saba” (Seven Seven the date in Swahili). The government sends in p

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Tens of thousands of people march without incident in cities and towns across South Africa at the end of a week of action again

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Five prominent anti-apartheid activists from Cape Town are released after being detained for up to two years under the emergenc

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The director of Maputo’s harbour meets SA Foreign Trade organisations to discuss a joint “master plan” to encourage SA exporter

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After enduring more than twenty years of government banning, Winnie Mandela is freed of all state-ordered restriction.

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Boris Becker (17) of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA on Wimbledon and becomes the youngest ever tennis champion.

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Government Notice No 76, providing for emergency regulations for the maintenance of law and order, commences.

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Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages taken on hijacked Flight 139 (an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens

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New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on virtually all visits by sports teams from South Africa.

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The Rev. David Petrus Matthys Beukes, moderator of the Dutch Reformed church, is elected as 4th chairman of the FAK.

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Federal troops are sent into Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, which declared an intention to secede on 30 May.

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SA signs a treaty with Great Britain on the temporary waiver of the margin of preference on flat white maize.

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Belgium sends troops to the newly independent Congo.

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The politically oriented Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party is founded in Tanzania.

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Opening of Delagoa Bay Railway. According to SESA, the regular railway service between Pretoria and Lourenço Marques stared

Ruth (Ethel) Prowse, SA artist in whose house the Ruth Prowse Art Centre was opened, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape.

Jan Gerritze Bantjes, teacher and secretary to the provisional Voortrekker administration and to Comdt.-Gen. Andries Pretorius,

Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.

The expedition of August Friedrich Beutler reaches Tembuland, which he enters on his map as “Tamboegies Land”. From there they

Baron Pieter van Rheede, appointed governor of the Cape who died at sea on his way to the Cape, is born in Utrecht, the Netherl

Herry, also known as Autshumao, Khoi-Khoi interpreter and chief of the Goringhaikonas, is banished to Robben Island

Navigator Vasco da Gama departs from Portugal at the head of a fleet in search of a sea route to India. His fleet sailed along

SABC Sport reporter Maseru Koaho, known for his expertise in football and boxing reporting, is killed in a car crash on the N12

This Day reports that the SA movie, Senter, produced by students from the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Liv

US President George W Bush’s administration acknowledges for the first time that Bush relied on faulty intelligence when he cla

Nigeria’s most prominent political prisoner, Moshood Abiola, dies of an apparent heart attack a few days before he was expected

Brig. Theuns Swanepoel (”Rooi Rus”) (70), one of the most feared interrogators of the SA Security Police, dies in Roodepoort.

In a television broadcast President Mandela confirms that he will not stand for re-election in 1999.

Eleven residents are killed in Katlehong in ongoing township violence in Katlehong and Tokoza.

In SA’s first ever Fifa sanctioned match the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Cameroon 1-0 in an international friendly gam

An illegal demonstration in Kenya becomes known as the “Saba Saba” (Seven Seven the date in Swahili). The government sends in p

Tens of thousands of people march without incident in cities and towns across South Africa at the end of a week of action again

Five prominent anti-apartheid activists from Cape Town are released after being detained for up to two years under the emergenc

The director of Maputo’s harbour meets SA Foreign Trade organisations to discuss a joint “master plan” to encourage SA exporter

After enduring more than twenty years of government banning, Winnie Mandela is freed of all state-ordered restriction.

Boris Becker (17) of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA on Wimbledon and becomes the youngest ever tennis champion.

Government Notice No 76, providing for emergency regulations for the maintenance of law and order, commences.

Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages taken on hijacked Flight 139 (an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens

New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on virtually all visits by sports teams from South Africa.

The Rev. David Petrus Matthys Beukes, moderator of the Dutch Reformed church, is elected as 4th chairman of the FAK.

Federal troops are sent into Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, which declared an intention to secede on 30 May.

SA signs a treaty with Great Britain on the temporary waiver of the margin of preference on flat white maize.

Belgium sends troops to the newly independent Congo.

The politically oriented Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party is founded in Tanzania.