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The three-day-long half-century celebrations of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK) in Bloemfontein ends.
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Dr Ludwig Wybren (Louis) Hiemstra (81), language advisor of the Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa and co-author of the
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Manuel Pinto da Costa becomes the first president of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Sâo Tomé and Príncip
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The seven-nation special committee of the Davis Cup Nations decides in Helsinki to readmit South Africa to the 1973 competition
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A new Black political party, the Black People’s Convention, open only to Black people, is formed after a three-day conference i
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Hungary announces the breaking-off of trade relations with South Africa.
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Ketan (Ketso) Gordhan, City Manager of Greater Johannesburg, is born.
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Prince Karim leaves Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to become the Aga Kahn, the religious leader of 20 million
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The president of the ANC, ex-chief Albert Luthuli, is served with two notices by the Minister of Justice, prohibiting him from
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India draws the United Nations’ attention to the 1946 complaint against racism in South Africa.
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Hermann Böhl (66), electro technical engineer and professor at the South African College, dies in Germany.
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Christopher George de Villiers Burger, SA cricket player in two tests (1957/1958), is born in Randfontein, Transvaal.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Kitchener receives a hero’s welcome in London on his return.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A court martial at Fouriesburg confirms Boer ex-Commandant S.G. Viljoen’s sentence of five years hard labour
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Brassey of Victoria, Australia, offers Britain volunteers for service in South Africa.
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Sir Henry Connor (73), Natal chief justice, dies.
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Col. David Harris, nephew of Barney Barnato, partner of Cecil John Rhodes and Cape parliamentarian, is born in London.
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Former minister of foreign affairs, R.F. (Pik) Botha says in Centurion that the ANC has lied to the previous government. He mak
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Egypt steps up pressure for the return of five of its most precious antiquities from museums abroad including the Rosetta Stone
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Bruwer Engelbrecht (75), former radio broadcaster who started broadcasting with Piet Pompies, dies of heart failure in Belville
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 14-13 in a three-nation match in Perth.
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Unita again occupies two towns in Angola and hundreds of inhabitants flee.
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The SA rugby team loses 16-21 against Australia in Sydney.
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Firms from Denmark and Yugoslavia pull their staffs out of Algeria as more foreigners flee a new wave of slayings by Islamic ex
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The tripartite alliance, consisting of the ANC, the SACP and the COSATU, outline mass action plans from the beginning of August
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The South African Development Trust offers 80 farms in the Northern Transvaal to Black farmers.
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Mr Justice W.H. Heath finds Bonakele Jwabi and fifteen other men guilty of murder relating to the abduction and burning to deat
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A Canadian government report comes out against disinvestment from South Africa, which it says hurts rather than helps workers.
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Anglo American chairman Gavin Relly, in his annual report, urges the government to scrap the Group Areas Act.
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