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UNICEF says fighting and crop failures in southern Sudan have forced an unprecedented exodus of 200 000 people.

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Eleven residents are killed in a night attack on Mandela View squatter camp, Katlehong, East Rand.

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Thirteen hostel residents are killed when vigilantes attack a hostel in Dobsonville, Soweto.

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Harry Gwala of the ANC and Zephania Mothopeng of the PAC are released from prison.

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Cyril Ramaphosa, a lawyer and general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, is arrested in Lebowa, on charge of organ

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Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f

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At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men are found guilty of high treason, as well a

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The Afrikaans writer Breyten Breytenbach is sentenced in the Pretoria Supreme Court to nine years imprisonment for offences und

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Candice Derman, SA TV presenter, is born in Johannesburg.

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Black Affairs Administration Act No 45, providing for Black self-government in townships commences.

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Egyptian government closes Soviet military bases.

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The Prime Minister, Dr. Verwoerd, welcomes the British Labour government’s announcement that the supply of sixteen Buccaneer ai

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A week of violence in Ciskei continues in which it is officially estimated that 200 huts have been burned. The Botha Sigcau Hig

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The HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying US soldiers, is hit by a German missile off Algeria. 1 138 men are killed, inc

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General Antonie (Rooi Michael) Prinsloo, commanding officer of the northern Free State commandoes during Anglo-Boer War 2, is s

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King Tutankhamen’s tomb is found in Egypt.

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The corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid.

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T.F. Burgers, state president of the Transvaal (1872), is reburied in Pretoria, nearly fourteen years after his death in Richmo

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The Cape Supreme Court rules that the Cape Dutch Reformed Church may only consist of congregations in the Cape Province.

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The Belvedere arrives in the Durban harbour with 318 Indian labourers, the second group to arrive to work on the sugar plantati

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Sir Frederick Napier Broome (54), former colonial secretary in Natal, dies in London.

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Richard Philip (Dick) King, pioneer settler of Natal who travelled nearly 1 000 km on horseback in ten days to deliver dispatch

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UNICEF says fighting and crop failures in southern Sudan have forced an unprecedented exodus of 200 000 people.

Eleven residents are killed in a night attack on Mandela View squatter camp, Katlehong, East Rand.

Thirteen hostel residents are killed when vigilantes attack a hostel in Dobsonville, Soweto.

Harry Gwala of the ANC and Zephania Mothopeng of the PAC are released from prison.

Cyril Ramaphosa, a lawyer and general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, is arrested in Lebowa, on charge of organ

Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f

At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men are found guilty of high treason, as well a

The Afrikaans writer Breyten Breytenbach is sentenced in the Pretoria Supreme Court to nine years imprisonment for offences und

Candice Derman, SA TV presenter, is born in Johannesburg.

Black Affairs Administration Act No 45, providing for Black self-government in townships commences.

Egyptian government closes Soviet military bases.

The Prime Minister, Dr. Verwoerd, welcomes the British Labour government’s announcement that the supply of sixteen Buccaneer ai

A week of violence in Ciskei continues in which it is officially estimated that 200 huts have been burned. The Botha Sigcau Hig

The HMT Rohna, a British transport ship carrying US soldiers, is hit by a German missile off Algeria. 1 138 men are killed, inc

General Antonie (Rooi Michael) Prinsloo, commanding officer of the northern Free State commandoes during Anglo-Boer War 2, is s

King Tutankhamen’s tomb is found in Egypt.

The corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid.

T.F. Burgers, state president of the Transvaal (1872), is reburied in Pretoria, nearly fourteen years after his death in Richmo

The Cape Supreme Court rules that the Cape Dutch Reformed Church may only consist of congregations in the Cape Province.

The Belvedere arrives in the Durban harbour with 318 Indian labourers, the second group to arrive to work on the sugar plantati

Sir Frederick Napier Broome (54), former colonial secretary in Natal, dies in London.

Richard Philip (Dick) King, pioneer settler of Natal who travelled nearly 1 000 km on horseback in ten days to deliver dispatch

Sol Kerzner and the president - a poem by Norman HC Smith

Trade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary

Dr JT van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician, dies

Alexis Preller, SA visual artist, dies

Kenya is granted independence

Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate, is born

Thomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born

Portuguese explorer Bartholomew Dias anchors at Walvis Bay