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WWII: North Africa. Colonel General Erwin Rommel begins his third offensive to push the British back into Egypt: Operation ‘Ven

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WWII: North Africa. Max Schmeling, German ex-world heavyweight boxing champion, is captured whilst trying to flee British troop

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WWII: General Jan Smuts, premier of SA, becomes a field marshal of the British army.

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A serious peacetime air force accident takes place when a 20-lb bomb falls from a military DH9 bomber, which was damaged during

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S.J. du Toit, champion for Afrikaans, dies in Paarl.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators are handed the final British proposals. Gen Smuts immediately deletes “ACT OF SURRENDER” on

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Zulu King Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer republics. Col. Bottomley wa

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The annexation of the Orange Free State is announced by Lord Roberts, and back-dated to coincide with the Que

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John Bird, government official and historian, dies in Pietermaritzburg.

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The Agnes (94 tons) and the Christina (196 tons), run ashore at Plettenberg Bay.

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Daniël Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born in Dal Josafat, Cape Colony.

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National Day of Ethiopia.

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International Cricket Council president Percy Sonn (57) dies in a Cape Town hospital of complications after surgery. He served

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The editor-in-chief of TV News, Joe Thloloe, resigns because of differences with Zwelakhe Sisulu, executive group head of the S

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South Africa’s Minister for Trade Mr. Trevor Manuel disclosed that South Africa had been formally invited to join the SADC.

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The second interim report of the Commission of Inquiry regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation, headed by

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The Natal Mercury reports that Mr Jan Steyn, a director of Hillview Investments, announced that the company was to develop SA’s

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SA’s Minister of Development Aid Gerrit Viljoen, announces that following allegations about the mismanagement of funds in the L

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Anti-apartheid Afrikaners led by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, IDASA director, meet with the ANC in Frankfurt, to discuss a post-a

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A SA Defence Force recruiting office is blown up in Durban.

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RENAMO denies in Lisbon that the movement is receiving assistance or supplies from SA.

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Dr. Milton Obote, deposed as Uganda’s president by Idi Amin in 1971, returns home from exile. He regains the presidency in Dece

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The schools’ boycott spreads to universities and to rural areas and the ‘homelands’.

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An unsuccessful pro-Soviet military coup is mounted in Angola by Nito Alves.

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The prime minister rejects the idea of a ‘canton’ system saying it is certainly not practical politics at this stage.

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The Independent United Party decides to adopt the name of the South African Party

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President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt signs a fifteen-year friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.

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Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian premier (1947) and staunch supporter of the Indian cause in SA, dies.

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Thomas Tommy Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy), SA artist, is born at the East Rand, Johannesburg. He was born deaf and atten

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Formerly jailed pro-independence leader Jomo Kenyatta is elected first prime minister of self-governing Kenya.

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WWII: North Africa. Colonel General Erwin Rommel begins his third offensive to push the British back into Egypt: Operation ‘Ven

WWII: North Africa. Max Schmeling, German ex-world heavyweight boxing champion, is captured whilst trying to flee British troop

WWII: General Jan Smuts, premier of SA, becomes a field marshal of the British army.

A serious peacetime air force accident takes place when a 20-lb bomb falls from a military DH9 bomber, which was damaged during

S.J. du Toit, champion for Afrikaans, dies in Paarl.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators are handed the final British proposals. Gen Smuts immediately deletes “ACT OF SURRENDER” on

Anglo-Boer War 2: Zulu King Dinizulu refuses British instructions to take up arms against the Boer republics. Col. Bottomley wa

Anglo-Boer War 2: The annexation of the Orange Free State is announced by Lord Roberts, and back-dated to coincide with the Que

John Bird, government official and historian, dies in Pietermaritzburg.

The Agnes (94 tons) and the Christina (196 tons), run ashore at Plettenberg Bay.

Daniël Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born in Dal Josafat, Cape Colony.

National Day of Ethiopia.

International Cricket Council president Percy Sonn (57) dies in a Cape Town hospital of complications after surgery. He served

The editor-in-chief of TV News, Joe Thloloe, resigns because of differences with Zwelakhe Sisulu, executive group head of the S

South Africa’s Minister for Trade Mr. Trevor Manuel disclosed that South Africa had been formally invited to join the SADC.

The second interim report of the Commission of Inquiry regarding the Prevention of Public Violence and Intimidation, headed by

The Natal Mercury reports that Mr Jan Steyn, a director of Hillview Investments, announced that the company was to develop SA’s

SA’s Minister of Development Aid Gerrit Viljoen, announces that following allegations about the mismanagement of funds in the L

Anti-apartheid Afrikaners led by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, IDASA director, meet with the ANC in Frankfurt, to discuss a post-a

A SA Defence Force recruiting office is blown up in Durban.

RENAMO denies in Lisbon that the movement is receiving assistance or supplies from SA.

Dr. Milton Obote, deposed as Uganda’s president by Idi Amin in 1971, returns home from exile. He regains the presidency in Dece

The schools’ boycott spreads to universities and to rural areas and the ‘homelands’.

An unsuccessful pro-Soviet military coup is mounted in Angola by Nito Alves.

The prime minister rejects the idea of a ‘canton’ system saying it is certainly not practical politics at this stage.

The Independent United Party decides to adopt the name of the South African Party

President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt signs a fifteen-year friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.

Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian premier (1947) and staunch supporter of the Indian cause in SA, dies.

Thomas Tommy Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy), SA artist, is born at the East Rand, Johannesburg. He was born deaf and atten

Formerly jailed pro-independence leader Jomo Kenyatta is elected first prime minister of self-governing Kenya.