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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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EventMugabe announces the merging of ZANU and ZAPU
EventAlfred Milner becomes High Commissioner and Governor of the Cape Province
EventBambatha Rebellion
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
EventEarly jewellery, a set of shell beads estimated to be 75 000 years old, is discovered in South Africa
EventJacob Zuma, Former President of South Africa and of the ANC, is born.
EventNelson Mandela admits to the torture of dissident guerrillas
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
EventWorld Health Day
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
EventInfant hominid discovered at Cradle of Humankind
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
EventTafari Makonnen proclaimed Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
EventHerero people defeat German Forces
EventIndian people march in Durban to protest against the Ghetto Act
EventThe Battle of Kambula takes place
EventEleven protesters are killed in Sebokeng
EventBritish Parliament passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
EventSouth African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born
EventGhanaian President Kwame Nkrumah calls on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
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