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Stanza Bopape, a Black activist of Mamelodi, dies in police custody. He allegedly escaped from a police van while being transpo
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Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still under a banning order, is admitted to
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Clarence Mlami Makwetu, former president of the Pan Africanist Congress, is born in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transke
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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe (54), founder member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress, dies in the Kimberle
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Sir Pierre van Ryneveld and Quintin Brand arrive in Wynberg after the first flight from London to Cape Town.
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Zandra Mitchley, her son, Shaun, and his friend, Clare Silberbauer, are murdered in Eikenhof, near Johannesburg. Three ANC acti
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Nqwiliso (also Nowiliso), tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with Cape Governor H.G. E
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Senior US officials say that a high-ranking member of exiled Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist networ
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General Hendrik van den Bergh has a lengthy meeting (6-7 March) with Dr. E. Rhoodie in Paris and indicates afterwards that it h
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Prof. Hermanus Marthinus van der Westhuysen, historian and supporter of the Ossewabrandwag, is born in the district of Pretoria
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Reflections on the Pan Africanist Congress ‘Underground’ in the Era of the 1976 Youth Uprisings by Ali Khangela Hlongwane
Can we ask the question and find out the answer why our Brother Onkopotse Tiro was murdered in Botswana
The circular urges Blacks students to take note of the murder of Black leaders by the apartheid government. It is a call for a united reaction in the fight…
Letter from Priscilla Hall to Peter Van Zijl OF Espin and Espin, regarding pension cases for six Glenmore residents
Letter from Priscilla Hall to Peter van Zijl regarding pension cases for six Glenmore residents
Letter from Rev G Hawkes, to the Secretary, Van der Walt Commission of Inquiry into the Consolidation of the Ciskei
Letter to the Secretary, Van der Walt, Commission of Inquiry into the Consolidation of the Ciskei from representatives of various churches (Anglican, Catholic,…
Letter from J L J van Vuuren, Chief Director of the Northern Cape Administration Board to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
Letter from the Northern Cape Administration Board to the Ciskei Commission supplying population statistics of the Xhosa people residing in the Northern Cape,…
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Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, arrives in Pretoria by military aircraft, accompanied by his Minister of Law and Order, D.
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Cornelis Freek Bezuidenhout, accompanied by his son and a visitor, Jacob Erasmus, is shot dead by Khoi soldiers under a White l
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Ex-burgher councillor Jacobus van Reenen, ex-burgher Lieutenant Barend Jacob Artoys and burghers Nicolaas Godfried Heyns and Ti
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British premier Harold Wilson and Rhodesian leader Ian Smith, meeting aboard HMS Fearless off Gibraltar, fail after five days o
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Nelson Mandela returns to South Africa’s notorious Robben Island and said "the emotions ran wild" when he met prisone
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Christoffel Hermanus Kühn (Mikro), Afrikaans author who received the Scheepers Prize for youth work, is born on Van Reenen’s F
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President P.W. Botha decides against scrapping the Separate Amenities Act, but agrees that some residential areas can be opened
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Political assassination: Sam Ntuli (31), general secretary of CAST, chair of Thokoza Civic Association and ANC member, is shot
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General Constand Viljoen is appointed as Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and Lieutenant-General Jan Geldenhuys
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Two rebels of the Graaff-Reinet Rebellion five years previously, Marthinus Prinsloo and Adriaan van Jaarsveld, are sentenced to
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Theophilus Shepstone, son of British Settlers and appointed by the British government as Diplomatic Agent to the Native Tribes
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Nicolaas Pieter Johannes van Rensburg (”Siener”, Seer) is born in Western Transvaal. Many people implicitly believe in his visi
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Talks between Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the African National Council start in a r
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Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, sails for England after travelling extensively through the East
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