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The Free State cricket team achieves the highest fourth innings ever in SA provincial cricket by scoring 443/4 against Natal Do

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Marga Diederichs (91), wife of former president Nic Diederichs, dies in Pretoria.

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Egyptian Boutros Boutros Ghali is selected as UN Secretary General.

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Ten people die in an attack by the IFP on the launching of an ANC branch in Appelbosch, Natal North Coast.

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Namibia’s constituent assembly meets for the first time to draft a new constitution.

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The Citizen reports that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in Namibia have been withdrawn in November.

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Leaders of the four ‘independent’ homelands meet central government representatives in Pretoria, chaired by President P.W. Both

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Twelve people are killed in Mamelodi, Pretoria, when the police open fire on a crowd gathered in protest.

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SA signs a multilateral agreement on the control of pollution of water resources in the Southern African region.

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Constance Magogo Sibilile Mantithi Ngangezinye Thombisile Ka Dinuzulu (Princess Constance), daughter of Zulu King Dinuzulu and

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The South African Institute of Race Relations urges the lifting of a 24-year-old ban on the African National Congress (ANC).

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Demonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. and continue on an almost daily basis, as anti-apart

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The government decides to disband the Foreign Affairs Association, a front organisation founded by the former Department of Inf

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It is announced that all Cabinet Ministers on the boards of newspaper groups are to resign their directorships.

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The Transvaal National Party leadership election produces a decisive win for Dr. Andries Treurnicht, Deputy Minister of Plural

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A Soweto Action Committee is formed to back the plan for the future of Soweto proposed by the ‘Committee of 10’, most of whose

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The twenty-fourth General Assembly of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its collaboration with Portugal and Southern

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It is officially announced on Eric Louw’s seventy-third birthday that the South African Ambassador in London, Dr. Hilgard Mulle

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The UN General Assembly passes a resolution stating that Libya should become independent before January 1, 1952.

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General James Barry Munnik Hertzog (76), former SA prime minister, dies in Pretoria.

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The Rev. James Murray Louw (70), board member of the Abraham Kriel Children’s Home in Langlaagte, Johannesburg, dies in Boksbur

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Gerhard Johannes Beukes, SA dramatist, is born at Biesiepoort, Augrabies Falls, northwestern Cape.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of De Wetsdorp, which was to end on the 23rd with the surrender of the British to Chief Commandant

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Eric Hendrik Louw, SA minister of finance and first ambassador to the US, is born in Jacobsdal, OFS.

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The Rev. Robert Shand, controversial Scottish clergyman of Tulbach, dies on the farm Rhenosterfontein at the Breede River, CC.

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Thomas Mtobi Mapikela, businessman, politician and speaker of the African National Congress (ANC) who was the first chairperson

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Sir John Carruthers Beattie, first rector of the University of Cape Town, is born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

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Daniël Francois du Toit, founder member of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners, is born in Daljosafat, CC.

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Olof Martini Bergh (63), secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, dies in Cape Town.

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Zacharias Wagenaer, successor of Jan van Riebeeck, writes to the Lords 17 suggesting that sixty-seven families be sent back to

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The Free State cricket team achieves the highest fourth innings ever in SA provincial cricket by scoring 443/4 against Natal Do

Marga Diederichs (91), wife of former president Nic Diederichs, dies in Pretoria.

Egyptian Boutros Boutros Ghali is selected as UN Secretary General.

Ten people die in an attack by the IFP on the launching of an ANC branch in Appelbosch, Natal North Coast.

Namibia’s constituent assembly meets for the first time to draft a new constitution.

The Citizen reports that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in Namibia have been withdrawn in November.

Leaders of the four ‘independent’ homelands meet central government representatives in Pretoria, chaired by President P.W. Both

Twelve people are killed in Mamelodi, Pretoria, when the police open fire on a crowd gathered in protest.

SA signs a multilateral agreement on the control of pollution of water resources in the Southern African region.

Constance Magogo Sibilile Mantithi Ngangezinye Thombisile Ka Dinuzulu (Princess Constance), daughter of Zulu King Dinuzulu and

The South African Institute of Race Relations urges the lifting of a 24-year-old ban on the African National Congress (ANC).

Demonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. and continue on an almost daily basis, as anti-apart

The government decides to disband the Foreign Affairs Association, a front organisation founded by the former Department of Inf

It is announced that all Cabinet Ministers on the boards of newspaper groups are to resign their directorships.

The Transvaal National Party leadership election produces a decisive win for Dr. Andries Treurnicht, Deputy Minister of Plural

A Soweto Action Committee is formed to back the plan for the future of Soweto proposed by the ‘Committee of 10’, most of whose

The twenty-fourth General Assembly of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its collaboration with Portugal and Southern

It is officially announced on Eric Louw’s seventy-third birthday that the South African Ambassador in London, Dr. Hilgard Mulle

The UN General Assembly passes a resolution stating that Libya should become independent before January 1, 1952.

General James Barry Munnik Hertzog (76), former SA prime minister, dies in Pretoria.

The Rev. James Murray Louw (70), board member of the Abraham Kriel Children’s Home in Langlaagte, Johannesburg, dies in Boksbur

Gerhard Johannes Beukes, SA dramatist, is born at Biesiepoort, Augrabies Falls, northwestern Cape.

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of De Wetsdorp, which was to end on the 23rd with the surrender of the British to Chief Commandant

Eric Hendrik Louw, SA minister of finance and first ambassador to the US, is born in Jacobsdal, OFS.

The Rev. Robert Shand, controversial Scottish clergyman of Tulbach, dies on the farm Rhenosterfontein at the Breede River, CC.

Thomas Mtobi Mapikela, businessman, politician and speaker of the African National Congress (ANC) who was the first chairperson

Sir John Carruthers Beattie, first rector of the University of Cape Town, is born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.

Daniël Francois du Toit, founder member of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners, is born in Daljosafat, CC.

Olof Martini Bergh (63), secretary of the Political Council and acting fiscal and auctioneer, dies in Cape Town.

Zacharias Wagenaer, successor of Jan van Riebeeck, writes to the Lords 17 suggesting that sixty-seven families be sent back to