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Parliament adopts Restitution of Land Act by 212 to 26, with IFP and Freedom Front opposing it. South Africans forcibly removed
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Convention between the governments of South Africa and France for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal
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The South African cricket team arrive in Calcutta, to play in three one-day matches against the Indian team in South Africa’s f
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Minister of Law and Order Hernus Kriel announces the formation of a new police unit, which would have specific task of stabilis
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Sixteen people die in an attack by IFP supporters in Bruntville, Mooi River, Natal.
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The military government in the Transkei lifts the state of emergency and banning orders on fifteen organisations in the territo
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The University of Transkei Amendment Act No 17, empowering the Transkei Minister of Education to veto, without giving reasons,
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The National Key Points Act No 26, aimed at tightening up security following sabotage in Umtata, commences.
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Security police today raid the offices of the United Democratic Front.
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Louise (Lulu) Latsky, SA author of children’s books and zoologist, dies in Stellenbosch.
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The SA rugby team beats France 37-15 in Pretoria.
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Dr C.P. Mulder resigns as Minister of Plural Relations and Development on instruction of the prime minister because of irregula
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The French Ministry of Defence will no longer permit delivery of two escort vessels (corvettes) and two submarines under constr
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Penny Heyns, SA swimming star, is born in Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later moved to the Natal South Coast. She represented
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A meeting convened by Chief Lucas Mangope, Chief Minister of Bophuthatswana, held in Umtata in camera and attended by eight ‘ho
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Johannes van Melle, SA author, dies in Johannesburg. A different date, 18 November 1953, probably not correct, is given in P
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South African police open fire on Black rioters, killing fourteen and wounding thirty-nine, after a beer-hall brawl got out of
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Allied forces under Lieutenant-General Dwight D. Eisenhower begin landings in North Africa, starting the Algeria-Morocco Campai
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The multilateral Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in Their Natural State, to which SA is a party, is
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The Rev. Daniël Stephanus Botha (75), moderator of the Cape Dutch Reformed Church, dies in Stellenbosch.
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Christiaan Neethling Barnard, medical pioneer who performed the first heart transplant, is born in Beaufort West, CP.
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: President Steyn takes General Snyman to task for a cattle raid against Chief Montshiwa in which 203 head of c
Anglo-Boer War 2: President Steyn takes General Snyman to task for a cattle raid against Chief Montshiwa in which 203 head of cattle and 1 570 sheep and goats…
EventDr Ernst Gideon Malherbe, SA educationist, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
Dr Ernst Gideon Malherbe was born on 8 November 1895 at Luckhoff. He studied at the Stellenbosch University and the University of Columbia and was a founding…
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The British government protests at the closing by President Paul Kruger of the Vaal River drifts.
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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) is established.
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The Natal Independent and General Advertiser, closed down in February, reappears as The Times.
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Andries Pretorius, Voortrekker leader, and father of M.W. Pretorius, first president of the ZAR, marries Christina de Wet. --
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Mutiny breaks out in Table Bay.
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Commander Simon van der Stel camps on the bank of the Eerste River and calls the place Stellenbosch.
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