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The police raid the editorial offices of the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg and confiscate documents relating to a series of a
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SA signs multilateral treaty for the extension of the International Wheat Agreement 1962.
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Burundi and Rwanda achieve independence from Germany. They had been part of the German colony Deutsche Ostafrika and then held
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Some 6 million of a total Algerian electorate of 6.5 million cast their ballots in the referendum on independence. The vote was
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Creation of the Somali Democratic Republic from two ex-colonial states: Somaliland (was British Somaliland, gained independence
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Ghana is proclaimed a republic with Francis Nwia Kofie Kwame Nkrumah, as its first president. Although it gained independence o
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World Refugee Year begins.
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Three South African tennis stars Rene Schuurman, Jean Forbes and Sandra Reynolds wear their sack-line tennis dresses for the fi
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Section 83 of the Criminal Procedure Act 56 of 1955 comes into effect. It was used to force journalists to reveal their sources
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The basic agreement about the transfer of Simonstown naval base to the Union of South Africa by the United Kingdom is concluded
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Jacob Daniël du Toit (Totius) (76), SA theologian, poet and co-translator of the Bible into Afrikaans, dies in Pretoria.
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The Berlin airlift, in which SA also takes part, starts. It lasted until 12 May 1949.
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W. van Loon establishes the “Suid-Afrikaanse Orrelbouers (Edms) Bpk.” (South African Organ Builders) at Struben Street, Pretori
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The British Dominion Affairs office becomes the Commonwealth Relations office.
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The Asiatic Land Tenure Board holds its first meeting. Senator Clarkson, Minister of the Interior, in his opening address, invi
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World War II: North Africa. Hampered by sandstorms, General Erwin Rommel’s Panzerarmee Afrika overrun an infantry brigade at Di
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The first national news association, the South African Press Association (Sapa), is established.
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The Afrikaanse Nasionale Kultuurraad (ANK) holds its first meeting under the auspices of the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurve
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British and Portuguese reach agreement on boundary between what is now Angola and Namibia.
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The first regular broadcasts, by the broadcasting company of the Associated Scientific and Technical Associations of South Afri
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Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–1980), is born in Serowe, Bechuanaland.
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Nothembu Grace Millicent, social worker and community leader, is born in Ndabeni, Cape Town.
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The publishing company J.L. van Schaik (Pty) Ltd. is established.
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Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog founds The National Party in Smithfield, OFS.
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Gandhi suspends Passive Resistance.
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The 12th Infantry (Pretoria Regiment) later known as the Princess Alice’s Own Pretoria Regiment, but since 31 May 1961 again kn
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Morocco becomes a French protectorate.
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The department of defence becomes a separate state department under Law no 13 of 1912.
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A German gunboat, Panther, reaches Agadir, Morocco, claiming that the French has ignored the terms of the 1906 Algeciras Confer
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