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Burundi gains independence

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Burundi gains independence from Belgium

Dinuzulu refuses British instructions

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Dinuzulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against Boers

Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War

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523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War

Hamilton Naki

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Hamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard, dies

bola virus

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Ebola virus kills 153 people in Zaire

Apartheid becomes official policy

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Apartheid becomes official policy

Organisation of African Unity

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The Organisation of African Unity is formed and Africa Day is declared

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The first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal

Johannesburg Magistrate court

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Johannesburg Magistrate court is bombed