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BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her…
BiographyWilliam Cock
In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…
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William Philip Schreiner, prime minister in the Cape Colony at the start of Anglo-Boer War 2, summarises the pressure his gover
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Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott in which he cedes sover
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Mandela Fades Amid Battles Over Who Will Claim Legacy by Lydia Polgreen (The New York Times), 15 May 2013
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An Italian, Commander Piazza, is the world’s first pilot to fly a military mission he flies reconnaissance missions over Tripol
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A strike by Black municipal workers in Johannesburg ends when police supervise the removal of over 1,000 dismissed men.
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The United States expresses deep concern to the South African Ambassador, Donald Sole, over government and police response to s
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Unrest among Black workers over wage improvement continues. Police arrest 244 African workers, of whom 169 are subsequently cha
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In a record-breaking performance, Herschel Gibbs scores 6 sixes in a row against Holland during a 221-run World Cup win over
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The Foreign Minister hands over a seventy-six room presidential palace, which cost an estimated R1 .8 m. to build, to Transkei
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General Salomon Gerhardus (Manie) Maritz rebels against General Smuts’ order to invade German South-West Africa, goes over to e
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South Africa calls for an urgent solution to the row over Iran’s nuclear programme following a meeting in Johannesburg between
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Five days before the Whites only general election South Africans all over the country organise a defiance campaign against the
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Sir Peregrine Maitland, Governor of the Cape, declares the maintenance of British authority over all emigrant Boers and defines
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Simultaneous attacks by Algerian rebels against French targets in the Constantine district of Algeria have resulted in over 500
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In a meeting with a representative of Lockerbie victims, Colonel Gaddafi agrees to hand over two suspects for trial by a Scotti
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Anglo-Boer War 2: the British government publishes Lord Roberts’ criticisms of Buller and Warren over the handling of Spioenkop
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United States President Bill Clinton announces the doubling of $600 million United States assistance to South Africa over the n
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Britain proclaims sovereignty and dominion over Ichaboe and adjacent islands off the Namibian coast, now known as the Offshore
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The cargo ship Ashdod is the first Israeli ship to pass through the Suez Canal for over 50 years.
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The cargo ship Ashdod is the first Israeli ship to pass through the Suez Canal for over 50 years.
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The cargo ship Ashdod is the first Israeli ship to pass through the Suez Canal for over 50 years.
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Israel turns over the final third of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt under the Camp David peace agreement.
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Israel turns over the final third of the occupied Sinai Peninsula to Egypt under the Camp David peace agreement.
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Beyers Naudé is arrested together with Allan Boesak and over 200 others for their part in a demonstration march through
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An Ethiopian Airlines plane is hijacked over the Comoros Islands and crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 125 people.
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Ten French aid workers, kidnapped thirteen days earlier from a Somali refugee camp, are handed over to Ethiopian authorities by
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An official statement in Lagos announces that twelve people, including four local politicians, were killed in an attack over a
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