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… Following a twelve-hour ultimatum to Egypt and Israel, British and French forces bombard military airfields near Cairo in …

… Harry Abt, rabbi and Jewish cultural innovator who wrote numerous articles on Jewish historical and educational subjects, is bo …

… The trial of twenty-two Africans, accused of pro-Communist and subversive activities, of instigating guerrilla warfare and of o …

… Egypt’s foreign minister urges America and other nations to help halt Mideast violence, and says the international community ha …

… George Sammy Shane Maluleke, attorney and member of several law-related Boards and Commissions, is born in Wallmannstal, near P …

… Allina Ndebele (born Khumalo), SA artist and master weaver who returned to her father’s village and established a small worksho …

… Adam Ismail Ebrahim, economist and managing director and portfolio manager of Oasis Asset Management, is born in …

… Mtshali, national chairman of the Inkatha Freedom Party and former cabinet minister and premier of KwaZulu-Nata …

… Jama Makhosi, ANC, SACP and Alexandra Civic Organisation activist and Fihlokwakhe Nxumalo, relative of chair of local IFP branc …

… Lindiwe Emmerentia Kuzwayo, successful fashion designer and judge at fashion shows in SA and overseas, is born in Durban. …

… Anton Ackerman, SA actor and member of the theatrical company of Wena Naudé and Willem van Zyl, is born. …

… Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, businessman and former secretary-general of the ANC and head of the Constitutional Assembly, is born …

… Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo, Zulu choirmaster and composer who was a founder member and first secretary of the Bantu Social …

… James Archbell, missionary and printer, negotiates together with John Edwards and T. Jenkins on the purchase of land at Thaba ‘ …

… Dr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, scientist and industrialist who founded the South African Iron and Steel Industrial Corporati …

… Swaziland and South Africa agree to exchange trade representatives who will have the same rights and privileges as diplomatic p …

… Pieter Johannes (Piet) Potgieter, second son and sixth child of Andries Hendrik Potgieter and in 1853 elected chief commandant …

… Dorothy Ruth Boxall, music teacher and lecturer, writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, dies in …

… Ciskei’s capital, damage the Pick ‘n Pay shopping centre and a garage and injure one person. …

… with the universities of Johannesburg, Pretoria and the Witwatersrand and Vaal Uni …

… Africa signs treaties with Swaziland on the establishment and functioning of the joint Water Commission and the developme …

… Cornelius Faber, Hendrik Prinsloo, Theunis de Klerk, and brothers Stefanus and Abr …

… Treurnicht resigns as Minister of State Administration and of Statistics and announces the formation of the Conserv …

… Dr M.S. (Tinie) Louw, SA businessman and entrepreneur who was co-founder and president of the Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut  (AH …

… Johanna Catharina Jacoba Cornelius, full-time organiser and general secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union and sister of Heste …

… Eighty people die and 500 are injured in a collision between a goods train and a train carrying dynamite in Braamfontein, Johan …

… Royal Niger Company’s station at Akassa, West Africa, and kill and eat forty-three captives. Christian chiefs o …

… The Rev. John Langalibalele Dube (Mafukuzela), politician and founder and first editor of the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal …

… Riots between ethnic Hausa and Yoruba rocks Lagos, the commercial capital of Nigeria, killing 100 people and forcing thousands …

… George William Stow, diamond trader and auctioneer in Kimberley and discoverer of the coalfields near Vereeniging, is born in …