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Catharina Felicia van Rees, composer of the anthem of the Transvaal Republic (ZAR), is born in Zutphen, the Netherlands.
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Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat (84), first principal of the Deaf and Blind Institute in Worcester, dies.
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Sam de Beer, former leader of the National Party in Gauteng, resigns and joins the United Democratic Movement (UDM).
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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights, is born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former
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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights, is born in Johannesburg as son of Jariam Singh, a former
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Daniël F. du Toit, (’oom Lokomotief’) (77), founder member of the ‘Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners’ and editor of ‘Die Afrikaa
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Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the cap
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Dr Bernabé Jan Gerard de la Bat, first head of the deaf-and-dumb institute in Worcester, is born.
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The ‘White supremacist’ Rhodesian Front party names Ian Douglas Smith prime minister of Rhodesia. (2004). Today in History, Pre
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The Minister of Manpower Utilisation announces the removal of the ban on the employment of skilled Black construction workers i
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Fifty Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members arrested by Swaziland government orders are to be expelled from Swaziland. They are
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SAA’s Boeing 707 "Windhoek" sets up a new record for the flight between Mauritius and Perth, covering the 3740-mile s
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Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, is born in Rotterd
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The Minister of Justice announces that the former Pan-Africanist Congress leader, Robert M. Sobukwe, has been released from det
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The President of the National Union of South Africa (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, receives a banning order under the Suppression of C
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The Azanian People’s Organisation and the Pan Africanist Congress announce they are to work towards the formation of a patrioti
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Regional Services Councils are introduced giving Blacks increasing say in second-tier government. It is decided that Blacks in
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The ATKV (Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging) withdraws its special award to Madeleine van Biljon, because she admitted to no
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The ATKV (Afrikaanse Taal en Kultuurvereniging) withdraws its special award to Madeleine van Biljon, because she admitted to no
EventTanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the United Republic of Tanzania. Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997). The Black Han
Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to form the United Republic of Tanzania The East African country of Tanzania came into existence through the merger of two small…
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The Minister of Manpower Utilisation announces the removal of the ban on the employment of skilled Black construction workers i
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Fifty Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members arrested by Swaziland government orders are to be expelled from Swaziland. They are
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CNN reports that a 62-year-old South African man is being treated at a Pretoria hospital as a "probable SARS" case, a
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Two Johannesburg paramedics, Adriaan Craukamp and Johan Erasmus, who abandoned a homeless man, who later died in the street, ha
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Prof. Richard Ernest van der Ross, rector of the University of Western Cape, is born in Plumstead, Cape Town.
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British Parliament draws up sanctions against Ian Smith’s regime in Rhodesia. Sir Humphrey Gibbs, the British Governor of Rhode
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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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Lungisa Livingstone Matutu, son of the Transkei’s minister of finance, is acquitted in the Umtata Regional Court on terrorism-r
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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe, Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) leader who was imprisoned and under house arrest for many year
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