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Andrew Kelehe, police detective from Mafikeng, wins the Comrades race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban in the second-fastest
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses against Zimbabwe 0-1 in a home game.
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President Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at the Union Buildings in Pretoria.
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The Russian athlete Dmitry Grishin wins the Comrades and equals Bruce Fordyce’s 10-year-old record.
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The Secretary-General issues his final report on the question of South Africa.
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The ANC begins an open-ended campaign of public protest with a day of rallies, work stoppages and threats of a crippling genera
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A crowd in the Netherlands welcomes African National Congress leader , who thanks them for staunch Dutch support for the anti-a
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Concludes a reciprocal radio agreement with the Republic of Chile.
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Thousands of Blacks stay-away to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1976 Soweto upheavals.
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World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa, UNESCO House, Paris, organised by the United Nations in cooperation
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John August Ion Agar-Hamilton, historian and Anglican priest of Scottish descent, who was born in Cairo and came with his paren
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James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, dies in Cradock, Eastern Cape.
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On the anniversary of the Soweto uprising, police bar forty-seven local and overseas journalists from entering Soweto and tear
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An ANC spokesman in Lusaka calls for increased participation by White sympathisers in the Black emancipation struggle.
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The ANC issues a call for the intensification of the liberation struggle on all fronts, but demonstrations on the anniversary o
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Six PAC members, all from Itumbi Camp, Southern Tanzania, appear before a magistrate’s court in Dar es Salaam, charged with the
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A four-day conference (16-19 June) to examine racism, colonialism and apartheid in South Africa is held in Lisbon, Portugal, or
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Internal Security Amendment Act No 79 commences.
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When secondary school students in Soweto start protesting against the use of Afrikaans as medium of instruction for certain sub
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The Minister of Economic Affairs, J.C. Heunis, announces that the government has agreed to increase the education and industria
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The Act of Parliament, becoming law from this date, achieves the abolition of slavery as an institution throughout the British
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The Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, first civilian hospital in Cape Town, erected by physician Samuel Silverthorne Bailey, is open
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Dr James Barry, British military surgeon and inspector-general of hospitals (later alleged to be a lady), arrives in Cape Town.
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The British fleet under Lord Nelson defeats the French fleet at the Battle of the Nile, at Aboukir Bay, Egypt, thus thwarting N
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Georg Schmidt, first Protestant missionary (Moravian Brethren) in SA, who established a mission station under the Hottentots (K
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The bulwark Walvis of the fort at the Cape collapses and in June the next year, Van Riebeeck concedes that the fort is falling
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
Following the National Party (NP)'s first federal congress since its withdrawal from the Government of National Unity (GNU), its policy plan was unveiled…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
Ethiopia requested the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of the African Union to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province, Ethiopia…
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
The Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 empowered the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of…
EventThe Luanda International Jazz Festival is launched in Luanda, Angola
The Luanda International Jazz Festival was launched on 31 July 2009 in Luanda, Angola. It has been held annually since then. The inaugural festival was…