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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen J.C. Smuts reports on the devastation of the Orange Free State by the British forces: “Dams everywhere

This day in history

Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Kitchener publishes his most famous of what the Boers call his ‘paper bombs’, proclaiming that all o

This day in history

Anglo-Boer War 2: Amersfoort, south-eastern Transvaal, is occupied by the British under Gen. Lyttelton.

This day in history

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Tygerpoort (Venterskroon) takes place between the British under Lord Methuen and the Boers unde

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Cecilia Wessels, SA opera singer, is born in Bloemfontein.

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A German protectorate is declared over Angra Pequena and the German flag is hoisted at Lüderitzbucht.

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The Battle of Muizenberg takes place during the Napoleontic War when British troops disembark at Muizenberg and move towards Ca

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Forty people die when a ferry founders in a river in the Central African Republic. (2006).

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Twenty Burundian parties sign an agreement in SA on sharing power, but eleven parties, including the main Tutsi party Uprona, f

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Friends Of The Earth offers to pay for Environment Minister Michael Meacher to attend the Earth Summit in South Africa after re

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Jaap Bekker (74), Springbok rugby player, dies in Pretoria.

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The SA Air Force announces that Mirages will be phased out because of a cut to the defence budget.

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The match between the SA rugby team and New Zealand ends in a tie with 18 points each. SA loses the series 2-0.

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Adelaide Tambo, wife of ANC president Oliver Tambo, arrives in SA after thirty years abroad, to re-establish the ANC Women’s Le

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The government and the ANC meet for their second round of talks and agree upon the Pretoria Minute, concerning release of polit

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The Citizen reports that the film, Cry Freedom, based on the life and death of Steve Biko was banned by the Bophuthatswana and

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A bomb explodes at a synagogue in central Johannesburg four hours before State President Viljoen is due to attend a ceremony th

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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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Three ANC members are sentenced to death for attacks directed against the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the

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The Mauritanian government has conceded defeat against the Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el H

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Eleven people die and seventy-six are injured in a bomb explosion in a store in Salisbury (now Harare) the capital of Rhodesia

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Manie Botha, SA actor and camera man, dies.

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The Hewat Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC boycotters.

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South African golfer Gary Player wins his second PGA Championship with a two-stroke victory over Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron.

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The Universities Amendment Act and the Extension of University Education Amendment Act give the Minister of Education, Arts and

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Dr Cornelius Francois Visser (Vader Visser), educator and cultural leader who founded the Voortrekker Beweging, an Afrikaner yo

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Samuel Bonnin Hobson, SA author, dies in Grahamstown. Together with his brother, G.C. Hobson, they formed a unique example of c

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Guinea announces that she has broken off diplomatic, commercial and cultural relations with South Africa and Portugal, and bann

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Andrew Vusi Fasedemi, businessman and managing director of several companies, is born in Cardiff, Wales. He came in 1994 to Sou

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Jack van der Schyff misses a goal kick and the SA rugby team loses 22-23 against the British Lions on Ellis Park field.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen J.C. Smuts reports on the devastation of the Orange Free State by the British forces: “Dams everywhere

Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Kitchener publishes his most famous of what the Boers call his ‘paper bombs’, proclaiming that all o

Anglo-Boer War 2: Amersfoort, south-eastern Transvaal, is occupied by the British under Gen. Lyttelton.

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Tygerpoort (Venterskroon) takes place between the British under Lord Methuen and the Boers unde

Cecilia Wessels, SA opera singer, is born in Bloemfontein.

A German protectorate is declared over Angra Pequena and the German flag is hoisted at Lüderitzbucht.

The Battle of Muizenberg takes place during the Napoleontic War when British troops disembark at Muizenberg and move towards Ca

Forty people die when a ferry founders in a river in the Central African Republic. (2006).

Twenty Burundian parties sign an agreement in SA on sharing power, but eleven parties, including the main Tutsi party Uprona, f

Friends Of The Earth offers to pay for Environment Minister Michael Meacher to attend the Earth Summit in South Africa after re

Jaap Bekker (74), Springbok rugby player, dies in Pretoria.

The SA Air Force announces that Mirages will be phased out because of a cut to the defence budget.

The match between the SA rugby team and New Zealand ends in a tie with 18 points each. SA loses the series 2-0.

Adelaide Tambo, wife of ANC president Oliver Tambo, arrives in SA after thirty years abroad, to re-establish the ANC Women’s Le

The government and the ANC meet for their second round of talks and agree upon the Pretoria Minute, concerning release of polit

The Citizen reports that the film, Cry Freedom, based on the life and death of Steve Biko was banned by the Bophuthatswana and

A bomb explodes at a synagogue in central Johannesburg four hours before State President Viljoen is due to attend a ceremony th

The Castillo de Bellver spills 250 000 ton of oil in the sea at Cape Town after it caught fire in Saldana Bay.

Three ANC members are sentenced to death for attacks directed against the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the

The Mauritanian government has conceded defeat against the Polisario Front (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el H

Eleven people die and seventy-six are injured in a bomb explosion in a store in Salisbury (now Harare) the capital of Rhodesia

Manie Botha, SA actor and camera man, dies.

The Hewat Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC boycotters.

South African golfer Gary Player wins his second PGA Championship with a two-stroke victory over Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron.

The Universities Amendment Act and the Extension of University Education Amendment Act give the Minister of Education, Arts and

Dr Cornelius Francois Visser (Vader Visser), educator and cultural leader who founded the Voortrekker Beweging, an Afrikaner yo

Samuel Bonnin Hobson, SA author, dies in Grahamstown. Together with his brother, G.C. Hobson, they formed a unique example of c

Guinea announces that she has broken off diplomatic, commercial and cultural relations with South Africa and Portugal, and bann

Andrew Vusi Fasedemi, businessman and managing director of several companies, is born in Cardiff, Wales. He came in 1994 to Sou

Jack van der Schyff misses a goal kick and the SA rugby team loses 22-23 against the British Lions on Ellis Park field.