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The government of President Obote of Uganda is overthrown for the second time and replaced by a military council under Gen. Tit
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The Republic of Ciskei Constitution Amendment Act No 10, removing the post of Vice-President, commences.
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The deposed Shah of Iran dies at a military hospital outside Cairo, Egypt, at age sixty.
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UN Security Council endorses Western plan for ending guerrilla warfare in Southwest Africa and making it independent new state
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There is further unrest (27-31 July) in the townships throughout the country including those of Alexandra (Northern Johannesbur
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After four years of intermittent tension, Britain breaks off diplomatic relations with Uganda, the first time in thirty years t
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Dr Georg Siegfried Johannes Kuschke, industrialist and president in 1970 of the Industrial Development Corporation, dies in Joh
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Prime Minister Vorster completes a tour of African homelands in the Northern Transvaal during which he hold talks with leaders
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An Uranium Enrichment Bill is announced, establishing the Uranium Enrichment Corporation of South Africa.
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Jonathan Neil (Jonty) Rhodes, SA cricket player, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
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Britain and Egypt initial an agreement to end British occupation of the Suez Canal Zone.
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The undeclared Korean War ends, after three years of fighting between North Korean and Chinese Communists against the United Na
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(William Matthew) Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist, dies.
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Kippie Moeketsi, SA jazz player, is born. He died in 1983.
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Samuel Vernon Collins, pioneer in the reclaiming of off shore diamonds on the West Coast, is born in Texas.
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Zoltan Borbereki-Kovaks, S.A artist, is born in Ronaszek, Hungary. He settled in SA in 1950.
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The South African Agricultural Union (SAAU) comes into being in Pretoria. It was first called the Intercolonial Agricultural
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Steinaecker’s corps’ prisoners taken on 21-07-1901 at Bremersdorp by Boer General Tobias Smuts, are tried and
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Chief Commandant C.R. De Wet, operating in the Bethlehem district, issues instructions to Commandant Willem D. Fouche in the Ea
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In a diplomatic note to the ZAR Milner states that the new Aliens Act includes unacceptable regulations.
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Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, one of the richest mine magnates, buys Section B of the farm Langlaagte from mrs Anna Elizabeth d
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Jim McKendrick, SA rugby Springbok, is born in Stellenbosch.
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Nicolaas Johannes Brümmer, clergyman, professor, author and cultural leader, is born at Prospect, Dordrecht.
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Susanna Catharina Smit, wife of Erasmus Smit and Gerrit Maritz’s sister, who rendered valuable service in teaching the children
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Henry Bathurst (72), British statesman and co-founder of the British Colonial Office, dies. The town of Bathurst (1820) was
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Sipho Gumede, SA jazz legend, dies after suffering from lung cancer.
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The European Union proposes a ban on the import of “conflict diamonds” from Sierra Leone. The proposal matches a similar resolu
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Bantu Holomisa is dismissed as Deputy Environment and Tourism Minister. His responsibilities are assigned to former ANC Youth L
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A White House statement, issued at the end of a visit by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, states that a tentative agreement has be
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