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The National Manpower Commission (NMC) starts hearing evidence as part of its investigation into the consolidation and amendmen
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Mandla Nkosi, SA artist, jumps to his death in the Magaliesberg mountain.
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Public Safety Amendment Act No 67 commences.
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Ten township youths are killed in KwaThema. The activists use booby-trap grenades.
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Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister, Robert Mugabe, announces that he will cut diplomatic ties with South Africa.
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ANC award Isithwalandwe to Govan Mbeki and Bishop Ambrose Reeves.
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South Africa’s longest political trial ends in Bethal, Transvaal, with seventeen defendants sharing a total of 147 years’ impri
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Following official meetings held in Sweden (15-19 June) and later in Britain, the United Nations Special Committee on the Polic
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Theophilus “Doctor” Khumalo, SA World Cup soccer player, is born in Soweto.
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The SA rugby team loses the second test against Australia 8-12 in Brisbane, thereby also losing the series.
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Sisulu makes the first broadcast on “Radio Freedom” from a secret hideout in SA. He urges the youth to join forces and continue
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Allan Lewis (66), first official SA war artist and portrait painter of Sir Winston Churchill and Gen. J.C. Smuts, dies in Stell
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While underground, Nelson Mandela writes a letter in which he states the famous words: "The struggle is my life. I will co
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SA signs International Labour Organisation Convention, no. 116, concerning the partial revision of conventions adopted.
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British Somaliland becomes independent and five days later merge with Italian Somaliland to become the Somali Republic.
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Madagascar gains independence as the Malagasy Republic. In 1975 it becomes the Republic of Madagascar.
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African National Congress initiates a boycott of twenty-four brands of goods.
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Azhar Cachalia, founder of the Secretariat for Safety and Security in SA, is born Scotland.
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The Freedom Charter is adopted in Kliptown, bringing the ANC together with Indian, Coloured and White organisations.
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Defiance Campaign is launched. Groups of protesters in all major centres deliberately break unjust laws.
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Makgatho Mandela, Mandela’s second and only living son from his marriage to Evelyn, is born on the National Day of Protest and
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National Day of Protest and Mourning. The first national political strike called by the ANC as an act of national mourning and
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Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org
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India asks the UN General Assembly to consider the question of the treatment of Indians in South Africa.
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The charter of the United Nations is adopted in San Francisco, USA, with SA prime minister, Gen. Smuts, present. The preamble o
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Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of the middle and light-heavyweight SA titles, is born in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 9-5 in Sydney.
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Harry Dudley (Brom) Bromfield, SA cricket player in 9 tests, is born in Mossel Bay.
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The first mail boat in Durban, the Armadale Castle, anchors in the harbour.
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