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QwaQwa: Police Amendment Act No 8 and Criminal Law Amendment Act No 10 commence.
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Swapo claims SA is moving military equipment and troops to the Angola-South West Africa border.
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Harold Sello Sefolo, business partner of Andrew Harold Makope who disappeared on 15 July, disappears after allegedly receiving
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Prominent anti-apartheid activists are arrested. Amongst them is Azhar Cachalia, national treasurer of the United Democratic Fr
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Defence Amendment Act No 11, incorporating the Department of Defence into the Ciskei defence legislation, commences.
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The Security Council urges Member States to adopt a wide range of economic measures against South Africa. The resolution is, ho
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The showrooms of two car companies are wrecked in Durban by bombs, believed to have been planted by ANC guerrillas.
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The Schlebusch Commission investigating a future constitution for South Africa meets for the first time. The Chairman, A.L. Sch
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The annual conference of the South African Council of Churches decides that some restrictions on interracial contact in South A
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The ‘Committee of 10’ formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to hav
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SA signs a treaty with Italy on the amendment of the air agreement of 21 May 1956.
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Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes and accomplished writer, dies in Kaya K
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The British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation,
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President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt creates a crisis by nationalising the British and French-owned Suez Canal.
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Walter Sisulu appears before the Magistrate in Bloemfontein and is released on £50 bail. The case would serve before the Supre
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King Farouk abdicates in favour of his infant son after a military coup a few days earlier.
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Kevin Volans, SA composer, is born.
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Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi of Persia, who abdicated in 1941 in favour of his son, dies in exile in Johannesburg, SA.
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Henk Temmingh, SA composer, is born.
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Wopko Jensma, SA poet and graphic designer, is born in Ventersdorp, Transvaal.
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Dr Lennox (Leslie Wongama) Sebe, chief minister of the Ciskei, is born in King William’s Town.
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The Waratah, passenger ship that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board, leaves Durban on her way to Cap
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The Rev. Stephanus Johannes Gerhardus Hofmeyr, missionary in the Soutpansberg and Rhodesia and later amongst Whites, dies at th
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse again writes to Broderick asking for reasons for the War Department’s refusal to include her i
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Piet de Wet, brother of Chief Commandant C.R. de Wet, and his staff lay down their arms at Kroonstad.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Aliens Act (Franchise Law), Act No 3 of 1899 is promulgated by the ZAR Volksraad.
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Dr Cornelius Francois Visser (Vader Visser), educator and cultural leader who founded the Voortrekker Beweging, an Afrikaner yo
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Gen. Manie (Salomon Gerhardus) Maritz, member of the Danie Theron scout corps in the Anglo-Boer War 2 and one of the leaders of
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Liberia becomes a republic, and Africa’s first sovereign, Black-ruled democratic nation, the first African colony, to declare i
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