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Fietas, Johannesburg: The Johannesburg City Council meets and approves a detailed report regarding the ‘Western Areas Scheme’.

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Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

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Prime Minister Louis Botha invites President M.T. Steyn to a meeting aimed at establishing a new political party in the Union o

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Belgium annexes the Congo Free State. Date is given as 18 October by brainyhistory.com.

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Johann Gotfried Mocke (83), field-cornet and Voortrekker commandant, dies on Blesboklaagte farm, near Ohrigstad, eastern Transv

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The Star newspaper makes its first appearance in Johannesburg as The Eastern Star. It was founded in Grahamstown under that tit

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Karen Blixen, Danish author of Out of Africa who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen, is born.

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Petrus Jacobus (Pietie) le Roux, leader of the “Stellenbosch-Boerorkes”, is born in Moorreesburg, Cape Colony.

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William Waldegrave Palmer Selbourne, British high commissioner in SA after Lord Milner, and governor of the Transvaal and Orang

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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow

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The Rev. Pierre Simond delivers the first sermon in French in the Cape when he addresses Huguenot refugees at Stellenbosch.

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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

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World Trauma Day.

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The Star reports that twenty-two charges of rape were laid against police officers between April 2005 and March this year, the

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The suspension of several judges in Kenya during corruption investigations creates chaos in the courts.

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The Medical Research Council releases a report on AIDS-related mortality in adults.

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Zambia holds its first multiparty elections, with Frederick Chiluba winning over independence leader and first president, Kenne

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SA signs an aviation security agreement with the government of the USA.

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Rosalie van der Gught, theatre director, actor and head of the Speech and Drama Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT)

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Internal Security Amendment Act No 22, prohibiting any meeting of more than twenty persons to be held without the permission of

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Draft laws are gazetted providing some benefits for Black people. These include greatly increased mobility and security of tenu

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On this day there are 178 restricted people in SA.

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A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched

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Rhodesian commandos launch a raid across the border into Mozambique.

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Cobus Visagie, SA rugby Springbok, is born in Stellenbosch.

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The twenty-fourth General Assembly meeting of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its persistent refusal to withdraw f

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Following a twelve-hour ultimatum to Egypt and Israel, British and French forces bombard military airfields near Cairo in the S

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The UN General Assembly decides that the Indian complaint against South Africa should be considered jointly by the First and Si

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Harry Abt, rabbi and Jewish cultural innovator who wrote numerous articles on Jewish historical and educational subjects, is bo

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The Transvaal (ZAR) Volksraad proclaims Marico, Western Transvaal, as a separate district.

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Fietas, Johannesburg: The Johannesburg City Council meets and approves a detailed report regarding the ‘Western Areas Scheme’.

Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.

Prime Minister Louis Botha invites President M.T. Steyn to a meeting aimed at establishing a new political party in the Union o

Belgium annexes the Congo Free State. Date is given as 18 October by brainyhistory.com.

Johann Gotfried Mocke (83), field-cornet and Voortrekker commandant, dies on Blesboklaagte farm, near Ohrigstad, eastern Transv

The Star newspaper makes its first appearance in Johannesburg as The Eastern Star. It was founded in Grahamstown under that tit

Karen Blixen, Danish author of Out of Africa who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen, is born.

Petrus Jacobus (Pietie) le Roux, leader of the “Stellenbosch-Boerorkes”, is born in Moorreesburg, Cape Colony.

William Waldegrave Palmer Selbourne, British high commissioner in SA after Lord Milner, and governor of the Transvaal and Orang

Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow

The Rev. Pierre Simond delivers the first sermon in French in the Cape when he addresses Huguenot refugees at Stellenbosch.

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

World Trauma Day.

The Star reports that twenty-two charges of rape were laid against police officers between April 2005 and March this year, the

The suspension of several judges in Kenya during corruption investigations creates chaos in the courts.

The Medical Research Council releases a report on AIDS-related mortality in adults.

Zambia holds its first multiparty elections, with Frederick Chiluba winning over independence leader and first president, Kenne

SA signs an aviation security agreement with the government of the USA.

Rosalie van der Gught, theatre director, actor and head of the Speech and Drama Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT)

Internal Security Amendment Act No 22, prohibiting any meeting of more than twenty persons to be held without the permission of

Draft laws are gazetted providing some benefits for Black people. These include greatly increased mobility and security of tenu

On this day there are 178 restricted people in SA.

A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched

Rhodesian commandos launch a raid across the border into Mozambique.

Cobus Visagie, SA rugby Springbok, is born in Stellenbosch.

The twenty-fourth General Assembly meeting of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its persistent refusal to withdraw f

Following a twelve-hour ultimatum to Egypt and Israel, British and French forces bombard military airfields near Cairo in the S

The UN General Assembly decides that the Indian complaint against South Africa should be considered jointly by the First and Si

Harry Abt, rabbi and Jewish cultural innovator who wrote numerous articles on Jewish historical and educational subjects, is bo

The Transvaal (ZAR) Volksraad proclaims Marico, Western Transvaal, as a separate district.