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The Economic Committee of the FAK is established with the disbanding of the Economic Institute.

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Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to destroy Israel if war is provoked.

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A joint statement is issued, agreed to by Dr. Verwoerd, Victorio Carpio, Dr. de Alva and the Foreign minister, Eric Louw, indic

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The Algerian vice-president, Ali Chekkal, is assassinated by Algerian Nationalists whilst attending the French football cup fin

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Kamal el-Mallakh, an Antiquities Service inspector at the Great Pyramid Giza, discovers Khufu’s (Cheops) boat. It will be more

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Ndaweni Johannes Mahlangu, premier of Mpumalanga (1999 ), is born in Middleburg, Eastern Transvaal (Mpumalanga).

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General elections in South Africa. The Herenigde Nasionale Party (Re-united National Party) comes to power in coalition with th

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Egypt joins the League of Nations as its 59th member.

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Rebel leader Abd al-Krim, based at Targuist in the Rif mountains of Morocco, surrenders to Marshal Philip Petain, leader of the

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The first legislative council for South West Africa (Namibia) is established.

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John Erskine (Jack) Cheetham, SA cricket player in twenty-four test matches, is born in Mowbray, Cape Town.

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Ishmael Booker Mompati, teacher, musician and composer, is born in the district of Dewetsdorp, OFS.

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Seven ships are wrecked, with the loss of ten lives, at the Buffalo River, East London.

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The British East Africa Company is chartered.

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The Rev. Andrew Murray, one of SA’s first Scottish ministers, is born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Eleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury

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Eleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury

Samuel Tshabalala becomes the first black athlete to win the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades Marathon

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Samuel Tshabalala becomes the first black athlete to win the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades Marathon

Union of South Africa officially ceases to exist

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Union of South Africa officially ceases to exist

André Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born

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André Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born

Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels

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Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels

Lord Roberts crosses the Vaal River en route to Pretoria

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Lord Roberts crosses the Vaal River en route to Pretoria

Zola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born

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Zola Budd, former SA athlete and World Record holder, is born

’New school joins strike’, Nxumalo, C., The World. 28 April 1976

’Seventh school join strike’, Bokala, W. ,The World. 1976

’Inquiry must be held into Soweto riot’, The World. 17 June, 1976

’Botha defends language’, The World. 18 June 1976

’Anti-Afrikaans pupils go on strike in soweto’, Bokala, W., The World. 18 May 1976

’Kids told - get back to school’, Ndlovu, D., The World. 2 August 1976

’Kids told - get back to school’, Ndlovu, D., The World. 2 August 1976

’Riot - Kruger speaks’, The World, 17 June 1976

’Need for cool heads over language row’, The World. 15 June 1976