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Renewed rioting occurs in the Cape (18-19 June). Criminal elements in the Coloured community are blamed. Official figures repor

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Marais Viljoen is inaugurated as SA’s fifth state president after the resignation of B.J. Vorster.

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The United Nations Security Council is called into session at the urgent request of the African states. It issues a unanimous c

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The report of the Commission, under chairmanship of Professor Erika Theron, to investigate matters relating to the Coloured com

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N.P. van Wyk Louw, Afrikaans poet, dramatist and essayist, dies in Johannesburg.

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William Duncan Baxter and Bishop S.W. Lavis are the first receivers of the freedom of the City of Cape Town.

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Egypt becomes a republic with Gen. M. Neguib (also Naguib) as president.

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Chief Wessels Mota of the Tlokwa tribe becomes the first chief to accept the institution of a tribal authority.

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Suppression of Communism Act commences. This date is given as the 17 June in another source.

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Prof. J.J. Smith (65), compiler of the first standard dictionary of the Afrikaans language, dies in Cape Town.

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Dr Dadoo flies to Durban to study the situation as White hooligans continue to harass Indian Passive Resisters.

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Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, State President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei, one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.

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Wilf Rosenberg, SA rugby player, is born.

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Dr Louis Luyt, SA businessman, politician and former president of the SA Rugby Football Union, is born.

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WWI: The second battle of Artois ends the war. There were huge losses on both sides.

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The first completely SA built aeroplane is flown by John Weston in Kimberley. He establishing a South African non-stop flight r

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The Scot arrives in Southampton, four days after Barney Barnato was drowned near Madeira. An immediate inquest into his dea

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Bernard Mizeki (known as Mamiyeri Mitseki Gwambe) Anglican missionary and African martyr is murdered at his mission in Marandel

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Lord Rosebery, British foreign secretary, formally declares Uganda a British protectorate.

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Dr Stephanus Johannes du Toit, teacher, chief inspector of schools in the OFS and author, is born in the district of Boshof, OF

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About sixty armed burghers, revolting against the economic and Khoi-Khoi policy of the Company, occupy the drosdy in Swellendam

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Jacob Borghorst succeeds Cornelis van Quaelbergen as commander at the Cape.

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Leonid Shvetsov of Russia sets a new recod of five hours, 20 minutes and 49 seconds in winning the 2007 Comrades Marathon Down

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A Zimbabwean student, threatening an air hostess with a syringe and hypodermic needle, demands access to the cockpit of an SAA

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Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, a former mayor in Rwanda, is sentenced to thirty years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide

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Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is appointed as Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa.

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The plan of diamond smugglers to smuggle diamonds using a pigeon, is discovered when the police shoot the bird.

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Sierra Leone’s military leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, is sworn in as head of state and pledge to restore peace to the war-weary W

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South African White extremist Eugene Terre’Blanche is sentenced to six years in jail for trying to murder a Black man and assau

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The SA rugby team beats France in the World Cup semi-finals in Durban.

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Renewed rioting occurs in the Cape (18-19 June). Criminal elements in the Coloured community are blamed. Official figures repor

Marais Viljoen is inaugurated as SA’s fifth state president after the resignation of B.J. Vorster.

The United Nations Security Council is called into session at the urgent request of the African states. It issues a unanimous c

The report of the Commission, under chairmanship of Professor Erika Theron, to investigate matters relating to the Coloured com

N.P. van Wyk Louw, Afrikaans poet, dramatist and essayist, dies in Johannesburg.

William Duncan Baxter and Bishop S.W. Lavis are the first receivers of the freedom of the City of Cape Town.

Egypt becomes a republic with Gen. M. Neguib (also Naguib) as president.

Chief Wessels Mota of the Tlokwa tribe becomes the first chief to accept the institution of a tribal authority.

Suppression of Communism Act commences. This date is given as the 17 June in another source.

Prof. J.J. Smith (65), compiler of the first standard dictionary of the Afrikaans language, dies in Cape Town.

Dr Dadoo flies to Durban to study the situation as White hooligans continue to harass Indian Passive Resisters.

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, State President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei, one of four children of Epainette and Govan Mbeki.

Wilf Rosenberg, SA rugby player, is born.

Dr Louis Luyt, SA businessman, politician and former president of the SA Rugby Football Union, is born.

WWI: The second battle of Artois ends the war. There were huge losses on both sides.

The first completely SA built aeroplane is flown by John Weston in Kimberley. He establishing a South African non-stop flight r

The Scot arrives in Southampton, four days after Barney Barnato was drowned near Madeira. An immediate inquest into his dea

Bernard Mizeki (known as Mamiyeri Mitseki Gwambe) Anglican missionary and African martyr is murdered at his mission in Marandel

Lord Rosebery, British foreign secretary, formally declares Uganda a British protectorate.

Dr Stephanus Johannes du Toit, teacher, chief inspector of schools in the OFS and author, is born in the district of Boshof, OF

About sixty armed burghers, revolting against the economic and Khoi-Khoi policy of the Company, occupy the drosdy in Swellendam

Jacob Borghorst succeeds Cornelis van Quaelbergen as commander at the Cape.

Leonid Shvetsov of Russia sets a new recod of five hours, 20 minutes and 49 seconds in winning the 2007 Comrades Marathon Down

A Zimbabwean student, threatening an air hostess with a syringe and hypodermic needle, demands access to the cockpit of an SAA

Sylvestre Gacumbitsi, a former mayor in Rwanda, is sentenced to thirty years in prison for his involvement in the 1994 genocide

Ms Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is appointed as Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa.

The plan of diamond smugglers to smuggle diamonds using a pigeon, is discovered when the police shoot the bird.

Sierra Leone’s military leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, is sworn in as head of state and pledge to restore peace to the war-weary W

South African White extremist Eugene Terre’Blanche is sentenced to six years in jail for trying to murder a Black man and assau

The SA rugby team beats France in the World Cup semi-finals in Durban.