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Anglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Kimberley starts.

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Johannes Jan Hendrikus Lambertus Kock (Jan Hendrik), Voortrekker commandant, wagon-builder and politician who helped to frame t

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Britain’s Queen Victoria issues charter to Cecil John Rhodes and others authorising them to establish the British South Africa

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Railway line linking Sterkstroom to Stormberg Junction via Cyphergat Station opens.

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Frederick William Beyers, judge and SA minister of mining in 1924 is born in Paarl, Cape Colony.

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Friederich Wilhelm Jannasch, co-founder of the SA Music Academy, is born in Mamre, Cape Colony.

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Commander Simon van der Stel himself supervises the surveying of the first stands in Stellenbosch.

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World Rural Women’s Day.

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The Mail &amp; Guardian goes to court to challenge an urgent interdict forcing it to remove from its website an SABC report int

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Gyude Bryant is sworn in as interim president of Liberia’s transitional government.

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Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, father of Tanzanian independence and a symbol of Africa’s hopes as it emerged from t

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Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate and a critic of the Nigerian government, returns to his homeland for the first time in four years

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Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.

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Lucas Radebe, SA soccer star, scores his first goal for Kaizer Chiefs (6) in the game versus Wits University (1).

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More than 150 000 people take part in seventeen marches countrywide organised by COSATU to protest against the Labour Relations

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Transworld Oil Shipping, a major supplier of oil to South Africa, ends all oil shipments to the country because of the &quot;ec

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Moses Mbheki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, is awarded the Soviet Order of

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Vice President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is sworn-in as Anwar Sadat’s successor.

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Scientists have identified the mysterious disease (Green Monkey, a variant of hemorrhagic viral fever) that has caused more tha

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The Minister of Sport, Dr Piet Koornhof, announces a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declares the government is wor

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SA signs treaty with France on air pooling, concerning SAA and UTA.

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US civil rights leader Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Jim Muller, SA pianist and composer, dies.

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2000 troops surround Black townships in Southern Rhodesia.

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The Malagasy Republic, previously Madagascar, becomes an autonomous republic within the French Community.

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Herman Charles Bosman (46), SA author, dies of thrombosis in Edenvale, Tvl.

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German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, suspected of complicity in the 20

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Pretoria receives city status.

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Mobutu Sese Seko, former Zaire president and dictator, is born.

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Phillip Tobias, professor emeritus of anatomy and human biology at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School and South

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Kimberley starts.

Johannes Jan Hendrikus Lambertus Kock (Jan Hendrik), Voortrekker commandant, wagon-builder and politician who helped to frame t

Britain’s Queen Victoria issues charter to Cecil John Rhodes and others authorising them to establish the British South Africa

Railway line linking Sterkstroom to Stormberg Junction via Cyphergat Station opens.

Frederick William Beyers, judge and SA minister of mining in 1924 is born in Paarl, Cape Colony.

Friederich Wilhelm Jannasch, co-founder of the SA Music Academy, is born in Mamre, Cape Colony.

Commander Simon van der Stel himself supervises the surveying of the first stands in Stellenbosch.

World Rural Women’s Day.

The Mail &amp;amp; Guardian goes to court to challenge an urgent interdict forcing it to remove from its website an SABC report int

Gyude Bryant is sworn in as interim president of Liberia’s transitional government.

Former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, father of Tanzanian independence and a symbol of Africa’s hopes as it emerged from t

Wole Soyinka, Nobel laureate and a critic of the Nigerian government, returns to his homeland for the first time in four years

Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize with PLO leader Yasser Arafat.

Lucas Radebe, SA soccer star, scores his first goal for Kaizer Chiefs (6) in the game versus Wits University (1).

More than 150 000 people take part in seventeen marches countrywide organised by COSATU to protest against the Labour Relations

Transworld Oil Shipping, a major supplier of oil to South Africa, ends all oil shipments to the country because of the &amp;quot;ec

Moses Mbheki Mncane (Baba) Mabhida, trade unionist, politician and Umkhonto we Sizwe commander, is awarded the Soviet Order of

Vice President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt is sworn-in as Anwar Sadat’s successor.

Scientists have identified the mysterious disease (Green Monkey, a variant of hemorrhagic viral fever) that has caused more tha

The Minister of Sport, Dr Piet Koornhof, announces a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declares the government is wor

SA signs treaty with France on air pooling, concerning SAA and UTA.

US civil rights leader Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Jim Muller, SA pianist and composer, dies.

2000 troops surround Black townships in Southern Rhodesia.

The Malagasy Republic, previously Madagascar, becomes an autonomous republic within the French Community.

Herman Charles Bosman (46), SA author, dies of thrombosis in Edenvale, Tvl.

German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, famous German commander of German forces in North Africa, suspected of complicity in the 20

Pretoria receives city status.

Mobutu Sese Seko, former Zaire president and dictator, is born.

Phillip Tobias, professor emeritus of anatomy and human biology at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School and South

The Mail & Guardian goes to court to challenge an urgent interdict forcing it to remove from its website an SABC report int

Transworld Oil Shipping, a major supplier of oil to South Africa, ends all oil shipments to the country because of the "ec