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The ‘Inkatha Gate’ scandal claims its first victim, when M.Z. Khumalo, personal assistant to Chief Buthelezi, resigns after adm
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Thirty IFP members and residents are killed during the period 23-25 July in retaliatory actions between the different parties.
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A limpet mine blast opposite the Athlone Magistrate’s Court and police complex kills two people. A third person is killed in a
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A surprise top-level military meeting between Angola, South Africa and Cuba ends in Cape Verde. The talks follow reports that a
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The obligatory carrying of passbooks by Blacks in SA is lifted.
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The last six SA mercenaries from the attempted Seychelles coup are pardoned, freed and arrive in Johannesburg. The Minister of
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The International Cricket Council in London cancels New Zealand’s cricket tour of the West Indies because of the South African
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The Prime Minister announces that the government is establishing formal machinery to promote its concept of a ‘constellation of
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With her underground cell arrested, Phyllis Naidoo is ordered to leave the country. She leaves for Lesotho.
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The co-founder of the recently formed New Republic Party, Theo Gerdener, announces that he is withdrawing his support from it.
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The South African Council of Churches (SACC) warns the government that unless the country’s racial policies are reversed it wil
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Severus G. Smidt (62), SA author who wrote under the pseudonyms of Johann van der Post and Adriaan Roodt, dies in Durban.
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Justin Swart, SA rugby Springbok, is born in Stellenbosch.
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Following statements by leaders of the (White) South African Amateur Swimming Union and the (White) South African Badminton Uni
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UN Security Council adopts resolution 282 (1970) calling on States to take a series of measures to strengthen the arms embargo
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The new French ambassador to South Africa, Baron Philippe de Luze, presents his credentials to President Fouché.
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3 000 people gather in the church at Groutville to attend Luthuli’s memorial service.
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An Egyptian munitions ship, Star of Alexandria, explodes at the dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 are injured, and $20 mi
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Ben Turok is sentenced to three years imprisonment for attempting to cause an explosion in the centre of Johannesburg in Februa
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P.J. Powers, SA pop singer, is born.
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The SA rugby team loses 3-11 against New Zealand in the second test in Cape Town.
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Amanda Strydom, SA singer and cabaret star, is born.
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Walter Sisulu is served two notifications, in terms of Section 5 of the Suppression of Communism Act (Act 44 of 1950). Sisulu i
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Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser overthrow King Farouk I.
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Lieutenant FM Bekker and Lieutenant RM du Plooy, serving with the SAAF Cheetah Squadron in the Korean War, are killed in action
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Lochner de Kock, SA singer and lyric writer, is born.
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Edward Butler (Clive) Rice, SA cricket player, is born in Johannesburg.
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WW2: Hurricanes of No.1 Squadron shoot down thirteen Ju-87s over the South African positions in the Alamein line, North Africa.
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To show solidarity of Natal Indians with the intended Passive Resistance Campaign in the Transvaal, a mass meeting is organised
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