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South African security forces begin withdrawal from southern Angola.

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ANC President Oliver Tambo declares, at a gathering in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the f

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On the 70th anniversary of the formation of the ANC, MK attacks Koeberg nuclear power plant in Cape Town.

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SA signs agreement with Lesotho on issuing of notes and coins.

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Members of the S.A. security force murder Dr Richard Turner at his home in Durban.

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Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near

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Prof. James L.B. Smith (70), who identified the coelacanth, dies in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape.

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500 rebels are reported executed in the Congo over the last six weeks.

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Adam Faith suspends his concert tour of South Africa, because the government prohibits him to perform before mixed audiences.

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Referendum in France approves a peace settlement with nationalist rebels in Algeria.

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Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d

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Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields including the first Afrikaans films, marries Gide

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The KWV (Ko&ouml;peratiewe Wijnbouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika)is founded in Paarl, Western Cape.

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A railway strike is declared in the Transvaal and Orange Free State.

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The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. The name of the organisation was changed in 1925

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Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields, including the first Afrikaans films, is born in

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Sir Theophilus Shepstone, British South African statesman and administrator of native affairs, who was responsible for the anne

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The Battle of Blaauwberg takes place, and part of the defending force capitulates two days later. Cape Governor Janssens and th

A wave of strikes hits Durban

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A wave of strikes hits Durban and spread countrywide

Rick Turner: His writings

Rick Turner: His writings

The Moment of Western Marxism in South Africa by Andrew Nash

Re-reading Rick Turner in the New South Africa by Tony Fluxman and Peter Vale

Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner

Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner

Walter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg

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Walter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg

Tshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody

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Tshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody

Mkhumbane our home African shantytown society in Cato Manor Farm, 1946-1960 by Iain Edwards

Mkhumbane our home African shantytown society in Cato Manor Farm, 1946-1960 by Iain Edwards

Sarie interview with photographer Constance Stuart Larrabee

Jonathan Berndt 8 November 1950 - 11 September 2010

Inside by Jeremy Cronin