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About 2 000 slave owners meet in Cape Town to complain against new slave regulations to be implemented at the Cape, claiming th
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Food distribution to 350 000 Rwandan refugees in camps in Congo is suspended because of riots and thefts by machete-wielding ga
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Germany apologises for the massacre of some 65 000 Hereros in South-West Africa (Namibia) by their soldiers during the 1904 reb
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More than 35 000 people force central Cape Town to a standstill as they march peacefully from St George’s Cathedral to the city
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The Star reports that the two biggest unions in the financial sector, the 34 000-strong South African Society of Bank Officials
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The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has predicted that 1,200,000 people in Ethiopia are about to starve to death.
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Aid officials report that the death toll may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against
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The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are killed in a plane crash in Rwanda, setting off the slaughter of 500 000 Rwandans, most
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About 50 000 people are present at the burial of Johannes van der Walt, well-known wrestler and hero, in Melville, Johannesburg
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UN Security Council votes to set up the largest and most expensive peacekeeping operation so far 30 000 troops and civilians ar
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South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on
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The Sowetan reports that a petition, signed by 30 000 White South Africans, calling for all sports venues to be opened to all r
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On the afternoon of 17 January 1879 the Zulu king Cetshwayo (Cetewayo) addresses 20 000 of his warriors at the great military k
BiographyPierre Jacy Fourie
Pierre Jacy Fourie was born on 26 June 1943 in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was the first recorded White boxer to fight against a Black opponent in South Africa…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Asvat
Ebrahim Ismail Asvat (Aswat) was born in Surat, India. He was a committed passive resister from Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was a Member of the…
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The Castillo de Bellver spills 250 000 ton of oil in the sea at Cape Town after it caught fire in Saldana Bay.
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It is reported that about 15,000 students have returned to secondary schools in Soweto and that thirty-two of the forty state-r
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A convoy of the British 80th Regt. is over-run at Ntombe River, northern Zululand by a force of 2 000 Zulus. Of the sixty m
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The UN reports that over 200,000 Hutu refugees are fleeing into the hills to escape the conflict between the Zaire military and
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The second general election is held in the Union of South Africa. The South African Party gets 94 000 votes. The National Party
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Chief Sabata Dalindyebo is reburied in the Transkei in a funeral attended by 40 000 people. He died in self-imposed exile in Za
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Ugandan military ruler Idi Amin, 78, who presided over an eight-year reign of terror from 1971-1979, where an estimated 300 000
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Dr. Verwoerd is buried in Hero’s Acre, Pretoria. A crowd of some 250,000 people watches the mile-long cortege on its three-mile
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Mr Nelson Mandela visits his family home at Qunu, 30km from Umtata and addresses a rally of 50 000 people in Umtata, sharing a
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Security forces round up more than 10,000 men in the biggest anti-Mau Mau operation since the state of emergency was declared i
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The results of an opinion poll indicate that more than 160 000 White South African adults plan to leave the country within the
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WWII British 8th Army opens offensive in North Africa by attacking Sidi Barrani in Egypt. They seize 1,000 Italians in a sudden
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The head of the United Nations (UN) commission on Rwanda concludes that genocide in the country in this year cost 500,000 lives
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The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, having been withheld in that year, is given to Albert Schweitzer. With the $33,000 prize money,
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