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Zambian president Kenneth David Kaunda refuses to take part in UK-US discussions on majority rule in Rhodesia.

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South Africa grants Bophuthatswana, consisting of six separate territories, independence.

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Britain calls for United Nations sanctions against rebellious Rhodesia, including ban on oil shipments.

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Henry Allen Fagan, SA author, from whose poem President Mbeki quoted in his response on the occasion of the budget vote of the

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The Transkei Legislative Assembly meets for the first time in Umtata and elects Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief Minister.

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Heavy fighting erupts in Congo’s Katanga Province between United Nations and Katangan forces.

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The International Plant Protection Convention, to which SA is a party, is signed in Rome.

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The Normaalkollege (teachers’ training college) in Bloemfontein becomes the faculty of education of the University of the Orang

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John H. Amschewitz, SA art painter and cartoonist, dies three days before his sixtieth birthday in Muizenberg, Cape.

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Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia.

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Charlie Hime, SA cricketer in one test in 1895, dies.

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Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, dies in Bloemfontein.

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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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Gé Korsten, popular SA singer, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to SA at the age of nine years.

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Italy, Britain and Egypt sign the Jaghbub accord (Italy).

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Frontier between Uganda and East Africa is defined.

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The Battle of Platberg is fought during the Orange Free Sate-Basotho War.

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The Transvaal Volksraad appoints Pieter J. Marais as official gold seeker in the Transvaal, after his discoveries in California

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Johannes Henricus Brand, fourth president of the Orange Free State, is born in Cape Town.

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Sir David Baird, British general in command of the force sent to occupy the Cape of Good Hope in 1806 and later acting governor

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Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the

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National Children’s Day celebrations are scheduled for a number of locations across the country today. President Thabo Mbeki pr

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Eight people are shot in Chad’s first executions since 1991.

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Rodney Petersen (12) of Clanwilliam, Western Province, dies during a cricket game when struck by a ball.

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Felix Mvelase, son of IFP Transvaal chair Vitus Mvelasi, is killed by gunmen in Transvaal.

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Judicial Matters Amendment Act No 143 amending the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act No 117 of 1991 in order to re

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Jama Makhosi, ANC, SACP and Alexandra Civic Organisation activist and Fihlokwakhe Nxumalo, relative of chair of local IFP branc

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Zambian president Kenneth David Kaunda refuses to take part in UK-US discussions on majority rule in Rhodesia.

South Africa grants Bophuthatswana, consisting of six separate territories, independence.

Britain calls for United Nations sanctions against rebellious Rhodesia, including ban on oil shipments.

Henry Allen Fagan, SA author, from whose poem President Mbeki quoted in his response on the occasion of the budget vote of the

The Transkei Legislative Assembly meets for the first time in Umtata and elects Chief Kaiser Matanzima as Chief Minister.

Heavy fighting erupts in Congo’s Katanga Province between United Nations and Katangan forces.

The International Plant Protection Convention, to which SA is a party, is signed in Rome.

The Normaalkollege (teachers’ training college) in Bloemfontein becomes the faculty of education of the University of the Orang

John H. Amschewitz, SA art painter and cartoonist, dies three days before his sixtieth birthday in Muizenberg, Cape.

Pietro Badoglio resigns as viceroy of Ethiopia.

Charlie Hime, SA cricketer in one test in 1895, dies.

Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, dies in Bloemfontein.

Dessye palace, Ethiopia, is destroyed by an Italian air raid.

Jim Pothecary, SA cricketer and pace bowler on the 1960 England tour, is born.

Lawrence Folley, SA opera baritone, is born.

Clarence Mlami Makwetu, former president of the Pan Africanist Congress, is born in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transke

Gé Korsten, popular SA singer, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to SA at the age of nine years.

Italy, Britain and Egypt sign the Jaghbub accord (Italy).

Frontier between Uganda and East Africa is defined.

The Battle of Platberg is fought during the Orange Free Sate-Basotho War.

The Transvaal Volksraad appoints Pieter J. Marais as official gold seeker in the Transvaal, after his discoveries in California

Johannes Henricus Brand, fourth president of the Orange Free State, is born in Cape Town.

Sir David Baird, British general in command of the force sent to occupy the Cape of Good Hope in 1806 and later acting governor

Nine French soldiers and an American aid consultant are killed in bombing attacks in Ivory Coast’s rebel-held north, after the

National Children’s Day celebrations are scheduled for a number of locations across the country today. President Thabo Mbeki pr

Eight people are shot in Chad’s first executions since 1991.

Rodney Petersen (12) of Clanwilliam, Western Province, dies during a cricket game when struck by a ball.

Felix Mvelase, son of IFP Transvaal chair Vitus Mvelasi, is killed by gunmen in Transvaal.

Judicial Matters Amendment Act No 143 amending the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act No 117 of 1991 in order to re

Jama Makhosi, ANC, SACP and Alexandra Civic Organisation activist and Fihlokwakhe Nxumalo, relative of chair of local IFP branc