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334 people were detained during the year.

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It is announced that 261 people were detained during 1978.

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Prime Minister John Vorster achieves an overwhelming victory in the General Election, taking 136 of the 165 parliamentary seats

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The SA rugby team wins the second test against France 10-8 in Paris.

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International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid is approved by the General Assembly [Resol

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Dr C.F. Albertyn establishes the publishing company C.F. Albertyn in Cape Town.

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Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Cyprian Bhepezulu, and twelve Kraals occupied by his followers, are attacked by hostile Blacks fo

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The Government closes all lines of communication with five districts in Pondoland and reintroduces emergency regulations for th

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J.G. Strijdom, in his first public appearance as Prime Minister, tells a National Party gathering in Pretoria that nothing will

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Dr D.F. Malan retires as prime minister, and withdraws from politics. Adv. J.G. Strijdom succeeds him.

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The Joint Committee of the First and Sixth Committees of the General Assembly adopts a French-Mexican proposal, supported by In

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Geoffrey Lawrence Vinal Armstrong, S.A. artist, is born in Vereeniging, Transvaal.

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WWII: Badoglio government in Italy strips sovereign title from the Emperor of Ethiopia.

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The Voortrekker Beweging (Afrikaner youth movement) starts a torch-race, ending in Pretoria at the laying of the cornerstone of

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Jan H.H. de Waal (65), SA author, dies in Cape Town.

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Moroccan Nationalist movement is founded.

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Goolam Mohamed Karim, chairman of the Islamic Medical Association, Eastern Transvaal branch who wrote several books and present

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The SA rugby team scores ten tries and beats Ireland 38-0 in Dublin.

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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor

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Dr Robert Broom, SA archaeologist and discoverer of the “Mrs Ples” skull at the Sterkfontein Caves, is born in Scotland.

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A congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church is founded in Bloemfontein, two years after the establishment of the town.

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Pieter Hackius, commander of the Cape of Good Hope, dies at the Cape.

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The United Nations announces that South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will head a UN fact-finding mission to Gaza’s Beit

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The bodies of world-famous South African opera star Deon van der Walt and his father have been found on their wine estate near

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Schalk Burger, flank forward AJ Venter, centre Gcobani Bobo and uncapped winger, Jongikhaya Nokwe are released to play for the

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The reigning Tri-Nations champions, the Springboks, beats out France for the team-of-the year award. Jake White is named coach

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Lawsuits seeking more than $400bn in damages from US corporations for victims of apartheid in South Africa are tossed out by US

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Representatives of the diamond industry and more than thirty governments agree to certify all legitimate shipments of rough dia

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Three tourists from overseas are killed in a bus accident on the Robinson Pass, Western Cape.

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The SA rugby team beats England 29-11 in Twickenham.

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334 people were detained during the year.

It is announced that 261 people were detained during 1978.

Prime Minister John Vorster achieves an overwhelming victory in the General Election, taking 136 of the 165 parliamentary seats

The SA rugby team wins the second test against France 10-8 in Paris.

International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid is approved by the General Assembly [Resol

Dr C.F. Albertyn establishes the publishing company C.F. Albertyn in Cape Town.

Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Cyprian Bhepezulu, and twelve Kraals occupied by his followers, are attacked by hostile Blacks fo

The Government closes all lines of communication with five districts in Pondoland and reintroduces emergency regulations for th

J.G. Strijdom, in his first public appearance as Prime Minister, tells a National Party gathering in Pretoria that nothing will

Dr D.F. Malan retires as prime minister, and withdraws from politics. Adv. J.G. Strijdom succeeds him.

The Joint Committee of the First and Sixth Committees of the General Assembly adopts a French-Mexican proposal, supported by In

Geoffrey Lawrence Vinal Armstrong, S.A. artist, is born in Vereeniging, Transvaal.

WWII: Badoglio government in Italy strips sovereign title from the Emperor of Ethiopia.

The Voortrekker Beweging (Afrikaner youth movement) starts a torch-race, ending in Pretoria at the laying of the cornerstone of

Jan H.H. de Waal (65), SA author, dies in Cape Town.

Moroccan Nationalist movement is founded.

Goolam Mohamed Karim, chairman of the Islamic Medical Association, Eastern Transvaal branch who wrote several books and present

The SA rugby team scores ten tries and beats Ireland 38-0 in Dublin.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor

Dr Robert Broom, SA archaeologist and discoverer of the “Mrs Ples” skull at the Sterkfontein Caves, is born in Scotland.

A congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church is founded in Bloemfontein, two years after the establishment of the town.

Pieter Hackius, commander of the Cape of Good Hope, dies at the Cape.

The United Nations announces that South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will head a UN fact-finding mission to Gaza’s Beit

The bodies of world-famous South African opera star Deon van der Walt and his father have been found on their wine estate near

Schalk Burger, flank forward AJ Venter, centre Gcobani Bobo and uncapped winger, Jongikhaya Nokwe are released to play for the

The reigning Tri-Nations champions, the Springboks, beats out France for the team-of-the year award. Jake White is named coach

Lawsuits seeking more than $400bn in damages from US corporations for victims of apartheid in South Africa are tossed out by US

Representatives of the diamond industry and more than thirty governments agree to certify all legitimate shipments of rough dia

Three tourists from overseas are killed in a bus accident on the Robinson Pass, Western Cape.

The SA rugby team beats England 29-11 in Twickenham.