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A new Black party, the Federal Independent Democratic Alliance (FIDA) is launched to oppose apartheid and prepares to work with
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A fifty-two-strong delegation, led by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine, leaves SA for talks with the African Natio
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The Prime Minister announces a government reorganisation, including the creation of a new portfolio of Constitutional Developme
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Following an order granted to the KwaZulu government by the Supreme Court in Natal, officials of the Department of Cooperation
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Six ANC exiles in Lesotho are injured in an attack in Maseru.
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Makhaya Ntini, SA cricket player, is born in Mdingi, near King William’s Town, Eastern Cape
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The Coloured Labour Party strengthens its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Representative Counc
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The South African Government annuls the regulation that African pupils be instructed equally in English and Afrikaans, and issu
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Comoros gains independence from France (Archipel des Comores), except for the island of Mayotte, which remains a French Oversea
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It is reported that Israel and South Africa are increasing their cooperation and contacts in the military sphere, and negotiati
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Kamuzu Banda is sworn in as Life President of Malawi.
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The British Conservative government’s intention to resume arms supplies to SA is announced in the House of Commons. Other Commo
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The Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra. The war claimed some 600,000 lives. About 1 million di
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Malawi gains independence from Britain (was Nyasaland, then federated with Northern and Southern Rhodesia between 1953 and 1963
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Fietas, Johannesburg: Mr. Mahomed Suliman Bhana, who had been active in the TIYC and is outspoken against apartheid policies, i
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Robert McBride, ANC member who planted a bomb in Magoo’s Bar, Durban, and later became Ekurhuleni metro police chief, is born i
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Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act No 52 commences.
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160 Passive Resisters are serving jail sentences.
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I.B. Tabata requests Professor Davidson Don Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu to attend a meeting of the All African Convention (AAC) of
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The Instituut vir Opvoeding en Onderwys (Institute for education and teaching) is founded in Bloemfontein during the National C
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Melius de Villiers (88), chief justice of the Orange Free State, dies in Stellenbosch.
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Bessie Amelia Head, novelist, short story writer and social historian is born in Pietermaritzburg. Being the daughter of a Wh
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Arab horsemen led by British officer T.E. Lawrence also known as Lawrence of Arabia capture the heavily garrisoned Turkish fort
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Second-Lieutenant William Nimmo Brown of the 1st SA Infantry is killed in the Battle of the Somme and becomes the first South A
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Audrey Blignault, Afrikaans author and essayist, is born in Bredasdorp, CP.
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Moiloa II (Moilwa) (born c. 1795), chief of the Moiloa clan of the Hurutshe from 1846-1875 who, through shrewd political action
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The Pretoria Rifle Corps is founded under Stephanus Schoeman as a volunteer corps to defend Pretoria and surroundings. The loca
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Kausobson Kausob, chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the ninetee
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Sir John Francis Cradock, soldier and governor of the Cape 1811-1814, dies in Grimston, Yorkshire.
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