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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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EventSA signs diplomatic relations with Vietnam
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
EventEgyptian and US Archaeologists discover a 5000 years old fleet of ships near the Nile
EventUgandan premier Apollo Milton Obote is shot
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
EventHistory of December 16
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
EventThe Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) begins
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
EventEli Weinberg arrives in South Africa from Latvia
EventChris Hani is elected SACP Secretary
EventThe Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’
EventClarence Mlami Makwetu is born
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
EventAhmed Timol born on the 3rd Nov 1941
EventConclusive Battle of Ndondakusuka takes place
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
EventDr. J. S. Moroka dies
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