Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1874 Hlubi chief Langalibalele was sentenced to life imprisonment and banishment to Robben Island after a widely criticized treason trial in colonial Natal.
Sources: South African History Online ; Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal (SciELO South Africa)
PoliticsCallistus Ndlovu, Zimbabwean academic, diplomat and politician, was born.
Sources: The Herald (Zimbabwe) ; Bulawayo24 News
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CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 1940 J. M. Coetzee, South African novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, was born.
Source: Britannica
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