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… Dr M.S. (Tinie) Louw, (d. 1 March 1979) SA businessman and entrepreneur who was co-founder and president of the Afrikaanse Hand …

… Jean van der Poel, historian and teacher who played an important role in the South African Teachers’ Association and undertook …

… Southern Sudanese riot in Khartoum, smashing cars and shops and blaming the government for the death in a helicopter …

… Dr Christiaan Barnard transplants two lungs and a heart into a man in Cape Town, South Africa, and the operation is described a …

… Dr Frans Geldenhuys, first editor of ‘Die Landbouweekblad’ and first head of the SA department of agricultural economics and ma …

… Dr M.S. (Tinie) Louw, (d. 1 March 1979) SA businessman and entrepreneur who was co-founder and president of the Afrikaanse Hand …

… Mary Elizabeth Barber, an 1820 Settler and early SA naturalist, author and painter, dies in Malvern, Natal.  She was a remarka …

… routine exercises are held between the British Royal Navy and the South African Navy, under the Simonstown Agreement, and …

… Sir Donald Currie, ship magnate and donor of the Currie Cups for rugby and cricket, is born in Greenock, Scotland. …

… Alfred Beit (53), friend of Cecil John Rhodes and co-founder of De Beers Mining Company and Southern Rhodesia, dies. …

… Alfred Beit (53), friend of Cecil John Rhodes and co-founder of De Beers Mining Company and Southern Rhodesia, dies. …

… Prof Petrus Johannes Nienaber, author and expert in literature, and collector of two complete sets of Afrikaans books, is born …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  Representatives of the ZAR and the Free State governments meet in Nelspruit and decide to allow President K …

… Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, co-founder of i.a.  The African Garment Workers’ Union in Cape Town, jailed and …

… Josef Johannes (Jopie) Fourie, scout and dispatch rider during the Anglo-Boer War 2, and rebel leader during the 1914 Rebellion …

… Phanuel Molaudzi, Rose Kota and Darkmore Tshabalala, members of the ANC and SACP, are gunned down on a train in Soweto. …

… Two South African policemen are killed and five policemen (two South African and three Rhodesian) injured in an explosion near …

… Richard Ishmail, former ANC MK and managing director of Big Issue, a publication for the homeless, is accosted by a burglar and …

… Headman Tshabalala, SA singer and founder member of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen …

… Johannes Hermanus Grobler, first landdros of Potchefstroom and Ohrigstad and later acting president of the ZAR, is born in Geor …

… The Egyptians and Syrians launch surprise attacks on Israel on Yom Kippur day, catching Israel almost totally by surprise and s …

… with two other former National Party members, Cas Greyling and Sarel Reinecke, and four other men, anno …

… African and some other delegates walk out of the International Labour … Conference in Geneva when delegates of the Government and …

… Convention between the governments of South Africa and Denmark for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fisca …

… Dr Mahomed Said Asvat, specialist physician, lecturer and author of articles on liver diseases and cancer, is born in Johannesb …

… of the Soweto uprising, police bar forty-seven local and overseas journalists from entering Soweto and tear …

… In two separate statements, the ANC and the UN Committee Against Apartheid call for a more concerted and intensified effort fro …

… Affairs, Dr. Hilgard Muller, visits Portugal (15-17 June), and says that Portuguese and South African f …

… a former right-wing member, massacres seven Blacks and an Indian and wounds sixteen in Pretoria city ce …

… Anglo-Portuguese agreement on Zambezi and Congo grants Britain control of lower Zambezi and colonising rights up to the Congo. …