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Government orders closure of all Coloured schools.

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Former American Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, lectures South Africans on the need for racial reform and a new Constit

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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t

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Agnes Alwena (Wena) Naudé (72), SA stage and cinema actress, dies in Pretoria.

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Sonny Leon, leader of the Labour Party in the Coloured Representative Council (CRC) resigns, ostensibly for health reasons. His

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The last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay.

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Sibongile Millicent Manana, MEC for Health, Mpumalanga Provincial Government, is born in Ermelo, Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). Sh

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The Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor-General of SA, Dr E.G. Jansen during a concert by

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Mohammed Kedir, 10k runner (Olympic-bronze-1980), is born in Ethiopia.

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Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South African Kwazulu politician, is born.

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Prof. Jacobus Johannes le Roux, linguist and Afrikaans cultural leader, dies in Pietermaritzburg, Natal.

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Bhekisani Manyoni, S.A artist, is born in Greytown, Natal.

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South Africa declares war on Germany, causing dissent amongst pro-war and anti-war sections.

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Johan Frederik van Oordt (D’Arbez), early Afrikaans author of historical stories, dies.

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Gerard Bhengu (also Benghu Bengu), SA artist, is born at an outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer distric

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under Gen. French occupy Carolina.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces under Gen. Buller occupy Lydenburg.

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The nineteen year old Princess Wilhelmina is crowned as queen of the Netherlands. She strongly sympathised with the cause of

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King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns.

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Bloemfontein’s first full-fledged city council, consisting of ten councillors, meets for the first time.

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Sir Henry Frere, governor of the Cape Colony, lays the corner stone of the present Dale College in King William’s Town.

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Schalk Willem Botha, vice-president of the ZAR and later acting state president upon President Paul Kruger’s departure for Euro

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Vladimir Putin, the Russian president arrives in Cape Town and addresses parliament on a first ever visit of a Russian leader t

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Swazi King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, has picked a 16-year-old girl, Miss Teen Swaziland as his new wife, brin

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Bill Keith (73), Springbok athlete, dies in Bloemfontein.

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Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya rejects an offer by the USA and England to try the two Pan-Am Lockerbie suspects in the Netherlan

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Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) dies of a heart attack at her Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Calcutta, India. Th

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Government orders closure of all Coloured schools.

Former American Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, lectures South Africans on the need for racial reform and a new Constit

The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t

Agnes Alwena (Wena) Naudé (72), SA stage and cinema actress, dies in Pretoria.

Sonny Leon, leader of the Labour Party in the Coloured Representative Council (CRC) resigns, ostensibly for health reasons. His

The last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay.

The SA rugby team beats Australia 11-3 in Newlands.

Swaziland becomes independent within the Commonwealth.

Prime Minister HF Verwoerd is assassinated in parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas.

Sibongile Millicent Manana, MEC for Health, Mpumalanga Provincial Government, is born in Ermelo, Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). Sh

The Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor-General of SA, Dr E.G. Jansen during a concert by

Mohammed Kedir, 10k runner (Olympic-bronze-1980), is born in Ethiopia.

Mhlabunzima Maphumulo, South African Kwazulu politician, is born.

Prof. Jacobus Johannes le Roux, linguist and Afrikaans cultural leader, dies in Pietermaritzburg, Natal.

Bhekisani Manyoni, S.A artist, is born in Greytown, Natal.

South Africa declares war on Germany, causing dissent amongst pro-war and anti-war sections.

Johan Frederik van Oordt (D’Arbez), early Afrikaans author of historical stories, dies.

Gerard Bhengu (also Benghu Bengu), SA artist, is born at an outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer distric

Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under Gen. French occupy Carolina.

Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces under Gen. Buller occupy Lydenburg.

The nineteen year old Princess Wilhelmina is crowned as queen of the Netherlands. She strongly sympathised with the cause of

King Kabaka Mwanga of Buganda resigns.

Bloemfontein’s first full-fledged city council, consisting of ten councillors, meets for the first time.

Sir Henry Frere, governor of the Cape Colony, lays the corner stone of the present Dale College in King William’s Town.

Schalk Willem Botha, vice-president of the ZAR and later acting state president upon President Paul Kruger’s departure for Euro

Vladimir Putin, the Russian president arrives in Cape Town and addresses parliament on a first ever visit of a Russian leader t

Swazi King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch, has picked a 16-year-old girl, Miss Teen Swaziland as his new wife, brin

Bill Keith (73), Springbok athlete, dies in Bloemfontein.

Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya rejects an offer by the USA and England to try the two Pan-Am Lockerbie suspects in the Netherlan

Mother Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu) dies of a heart attack at her Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Calcutta, India. Th