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After enduring more than twenty years of government banning, Winnie Mandela is freed of all state-ordered restriction.
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Boris Becker (17) of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA on Wimbledon and becomes the youngest ever tennis champion.
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Government Notice No 76, providing for emergency regulations for the maintenance of law and order, commences.
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Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages taken on hijacked Flight 139 (an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens
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New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on virtually all visits by sports teams from South Africa.
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The Rev. David Petrus Matthys Beukes, moderator of the Dutch Reformed church, is elected as 4th chairman of the FAK.
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Federal troops are sent into Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, which declared an intention to secede on 30 May.
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SA signs a treaty with Great Britain on the temporary waiver of the margin of preference on flat white maize.
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Belgium sends troops to the newly independent Congo.
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The politically oriented Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party is founded in Tanzania.
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Frederick Johannes (Frikkie) Potgieter, S.A sculptor, is born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State.
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Joseph Maqhekeni, leading trade unionist is born in Umtata, Transkei.
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Group Areas Act, No. 41 of 1950 is promulgated.
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The Population Registration Act, No. 30 of 1950 is promulgated.
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Pieter Willem Adriaan Mulder (65), champion of Afrikaans, dies in Pretoria.
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Henning J. Klopper is elected as member of parliament for Vredefort (OFS) and leaves the railway service. He became speaker o
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Federale Volksbeleggings Beperk (FVB) is founded.
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Jaco van der Merwe, SA baritone, is born.
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Albertus Johannes Roux van Rhijn, first chief editor of Die Volksblad as daily newspaper, member of parliament and administrato
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Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, highest award of the International Red
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The Commissary-General of the Cape, Jacob Abraham de Mist, in his capacity as Deputy Grand Master National, dedicates the templ
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Napoleon Bonaparte’s army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria, Napoleon’s desert nemesis.
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João da Nova, Portuguese navigator on his way to India, finds letters and a document in a shoe hanging from a milk wood tree a
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The class consequences of colonialism in Africa by Richard D. Wolff
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“Lions and Jackals“ by Robert Konrad, October 2008
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Appendix II: About Dr. Dadoo, delivered by Oliver Tambo
We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the…
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Appendix I: Correspondence Between Mahatma Gandhi And Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
[Note: Most of this correspondence is from the Pyarelal papers at the National Archives of India, New Delhi - a large part of which are also in the ANC…
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Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
[Message to a meeting of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, written and signed hours before his death, September 19, 1983] Dearest…
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”Twenty-Sixth Congress Of The Cpsu; The Voice Of Reason, Peace, Freedom And Socialism”: Report, 1981
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Address At Meeting On The Occasion Of The 60th Anniversary Of The Formation Of The South African Communist Party, London, July 30, 1981
It is with a deep sense of pride and honour that I speak today on behalf of the South African Communist Party, which celebrates the 60th year of its birth, on…