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”De Nationale Pers” forerunner to Tafelberg Publishers is registered as a company. Six years later the name was translated into
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Rhodesia’s first Black cabinet ministers are sworn into office after the announcement the previous day that four tribal chiefs
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A Zambian air force plane carrying Zambia’s national soccer team crashes into the Atlantic off Gabon, killing all thirty aboard
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The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces that a pilot plant for the manufacture of enriched uranium has gone into production
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The Refugees Act, 1998, comes into action. Mozambique and Zimbabwe are by far the largest source of illegal immigrants.
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South African President F.W. de Klerk declares a state of emergency in Natal and orders army into the Zulu stronghold.
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The expedition under August F. Beutler into the interior of the country, finds survivors of the French ship Le Nécessair
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An Ethiopian Airlines plane is hijacked over the Comoros Islands and crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing 125 people.
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A suicide bomber blasts his way into the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, setting off a powerful explosion that kills sixteen peo
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A Boeing 737 Cameroon airliner crashes into a swamp as it attempts to land near Douala, killing 72 passengers and crew.
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Thirty-three people are killed when a military passenger plane crashes into market stalls at Boende, Democratic Republic of Con
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Dr. Verwoerd tells the union Council of Coloured Affairs that the Council will be transformed into a Coloured ‘Parliament’ with
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South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland sign a new customs agreement in Pretoria, to come into operation on 1 March 1970.
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Leader of the Opposition, Sir De Villiers Graaff, demands a judicial inquiry into the activities of the Broederbond, and demand
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The six-man Commission of Inquiry into security legislation, under the chairmanship of Justice P.I. Rabie, presents its report
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Justice M. Stegmann records an open finding in the inquest into the murder of Witwatersrand University academic Dr David Webste
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A cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing 255 people by the official count. The unofficial death
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Leander Starr Jameson crosses the border into Transvaal, leading about five hundred hand-picked policemen of the Chartered Comp
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Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
Tuesday, 29th October 1929, saw the world's economy go into recession as the New York Stock Exchange collapsed and saw shocked investors withdraw their…
Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 23 September 1976, Volume 12 and Volume 13
Excerpts from the transcript of continuing evidence of Vusamuzulu Pumelelo Credo Mtetwa and evidence from Langa Daniel Skosana and Fanyana Lawrence Shiburi,…
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The Attorney General of the Transvaal, Jacobus E. Nothling, announces that an inquest into Biko’s death will be held, but that
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announces it has entered into a stand-by agreement with South Africa under which South Af
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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 Commission of Inquiry into Certain Organisations submits its final report on NUSAS to Parliament. It finds that its leaders
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Following the findings of the Viljoen Commission into the employment of African labour in twelve gold mines, the experiment is
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Some 2 500 French troops head into Rwanda to protect civilians, the first outside forces sent there since UN. Secretary-General
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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 Scot arrives in Southampton, four days after Barney Barnato was drowned near Madeira. An immediate inquest into his dea
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The ‘Luthuli Combat Detachment’, comprising of ZAPU and ANC guerrillas, crosses the Zambezi into Rhodesia (30 July 31 July) at
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