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Full list- A history of Apartheid in South Africa
- Stephen Bantu Biko
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Hector Pieterson
- Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
- Pass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
- Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
- The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
- The Black Sash: A History of Transformation
- Khotso Seatlholo
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EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
EventDate set for start of Passive Resistance Campaign
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
EventThe Battle of Ulundi begins
EventLiberian President, Samuel Kanyon Doe publically offers to resign
EventSeretse Khama is born
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
EventNyanga school Principal’s office burnt
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
EventGeneral Secretary of the ANC, journalist and writer, Solomon Plaatje dies
EventRivonia trial sentence is delivered
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
EventDr. Dadoo and Naicker lead Passive Resisters
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
EventDisaster strikes as Portuguese ship São João sinks
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
EventCape Supreme Court sets aside 1973 Ciskei election of Lennox Sebe on the grounds of irregularities
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