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The government announces it is to appoint special units to investigate the previous week’s massacre at Denver station, Johannes

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A DC-10 airliner, belonging to French airline UTA, is blown up over Niger, killing 170 people, in an attack blamed on Libyan se

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A DC-10 airliner, belonging to French airline UTA, is blown up over Niger, killing 170 people, in an attack blamed on Libyan se

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Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath Ramphal, speaking at the opening of a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting in

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A Black teachers’ association, the Progressive Teachers’ Congress (PROTECO) is secretly launched in the Transvaal to fill the v

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Godfrey Thuso Phuso, high school pupil of Pimville, is shot dead by a passing motorist.

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Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, dies in exile in London.

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The town of Mafeking is officially surrendered by the Republic of South Africa to the Republic of Bophuthatswana, and upon its

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The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Consolidation of the ‘Homelands’, Hennie van der Walt, speaking at the National

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Egypt’s cabinet unanimously approves President Anwar Sadat’s Camp David agreement to sign a peace treaty with Israel within thr

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The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) elects its first Black chairman, Ronnie Webb, at the Council’s annual congress

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The Coloured Persons’ Representative Council (CPRC) decides to reject the government’s constitutional proposals and call for a

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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria to discuss majority ru

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While officially opening the Biennial Congress of the Coordinating Council of South African Trade Unions in Pretoria, the Minis

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The Prime Minister wishes the new Mozambique government well, but warns that South Africa will have to act in self-defence if M

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Four agreements are signed in Lisbon connected with the construction of the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique, the main one being

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Albert van de Sandt Centlivres (79), chief justice of SA (1950-1957), dies.

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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. de Wet Nel, says that ‘Tswanaland’, a number of African reserves ski

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Yasmin Jessie Duarte, SA High Commissioner to Mozambique and previous Special Assistant to President Mandela in 1990, is born i

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J.G.N. Strauss is elected leader of the United Party in succession to General Jan Smuts, who died a few days earlier.

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Adv. Dirk Cornelius du Toit, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999

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Ingrid Jonker, SA poet whose poem ‘Die Kind’ was read by President Nelson Mandela during his first opening of parliament, is bo

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WWI: The Cape Corps, two infantry battalions of Cape Coloured men, captures Square Hill in Palestine.

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The commissioner of mines, Carl von Brandis, is appointed as the first landdros of Johannesburg, responsible for the administra

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Cecil John Rhodes makes his first will, leaving all his possessions to the British secretary of state for the colonies, in trus

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Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, sails for England after travelling extensively through the East

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The Cape Parliament guarantees freedom of speech in its proceedings.

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The Neptune, with 288 convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay amid strong resistance of Cape inhabitants.

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Josephus Suasso de Lima (46), first editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, ‘De Verzamelaar’, dies in Cape Tow

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At least ninety cars are destroyed when a runaway veld fire jumps the fence around a factory at Rosslyn.

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The government announces it is to appoint special units to investigate the previous week’s massacre at Denver station, Johannes

A DC-10 airliner, belonging to French airline UTA, is blown up over Niger, killing 170 people, in an attack blamed on Libyan se

A DC-10 airliner, belonging to French airline UTA, is blown up over Niger, killing 170 people, in an attack blamed on Libyan se

Commonwealth Secretary-General Shridath Ramphal, speaking at the opening of a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association meeting in

A Black teachers’ association, the Progressive Teachers’ Congress (PROTECO) is secretly launched in the Transvaal to fill the v

Godfrey Thuso Phuso, high school pupil of Pimville, is shot dead by a passing motorist.

Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, dies in exile in London.

The town of Mafeking is officially surrendered by the Republic of South Africa to the Republic of Bophuthatswana, and upon its

The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Consolidation of the ‘Homelands’, Hennie van der Walt, speaking at the National

Egypt’s cabinet unanimously approves President Anwar Sadat’s Camp David agreement to sign a peace treaty with Israel within thr

The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) elects its first Black chairman, Ronnie Webb, at the Council’s annual congress

The Coloured Persons’ Representative Council (CPRC) decides to reject the government’s constitutional proposals and call for a

Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria to discuss majority ru

While officially opening the Biennial Congress of the Coordinating Council of South African Trade Unions in Pretoria, the Minis

The Prime Minister wishes the new Mozambique government well, but warns that South Africa will have to act in self-defence if M

Four agreements are signed in Lisbon connected with the construction of the Cahora Bassa Dam in Mozambique, the main one being

Albert van de Sandt Centlivres (79), chief justice of SA (1950-1957), dies.

The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. de Wet Nel, says that ‘Tswanaland’, a number of African reserves ski

Yasmin Jessie Duarte, SA High Commissioner to Mozambique and previous Special Assistant to President Mandela in 1990, is born i

J.G.N. Strauss is elected leader of the United Party in succession to General Jan Smuts, who died a few days earlier.

Adv. Dirk Cornelius du Toit, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Republic of South Africa since 17 June 1999

Ingrid Jonker, SA poet whose poem ‘Die Kind’ was read by President Nelson Mandela during his first opening of parliament, is bo

WWI: The Cape Corps, two infantry battalions of Cape Coloured men, captures Square Hill in Palestine.

The commissioner of mines, Carl von Brandis, is appointed as the first landdros of Johannesburg, responsible for the administra

Cecil John Rhodes makes his first will, leaving all his possessions to the British secretary of state for the colonies, in trus

Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, sails for England after travelling extensively through the East

The Cape Parliament guarantees freedom of speech in its proceedings.

The Neptune, with 288 convicts on board, enters Simon’s Bay amid strong resistance of Cape inhabitants.

Josephus Suasso de Lima (46), first editor and publisher of the first Dutch newspaper in SA, ‘De Verzamelaar’, dies in Cape Tow

At least ninety cars are destroyed when a runaway veld fire jumps the fence around a factory at Rosslyn.