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Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still under a banning order, is admitted to
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P.W. Botha announces that South Africa is establishing a new submarine base at Simonstown at a cost of $7.7m.
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At the Rand Criminal Sessions three Africans are imprisoned for twelve years and one for eight years on a charge of sabotage.
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In terms of a new General Laws Amendment Bill, the death penalty is extended to people who have undergone sabotage training wit
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Nelson Mandela arrives on Robben Island to begin his life sentence, imposed the previous day.
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Mandla Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Soweto, Johannesburg. He studied at the Mofolo Arts Centre in Soweto and from 1984 to 1987
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Benjamin Pogrund, senior reporter on the Rand Daily Mail, is jailed for eight days for refusing to divulge the source of his st
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Last British troops leave Suez Canal base, turning the waterway over to Egypt after operating it for seventy-four years.
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Indian Passive Resistance campaign led by Y. M. Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Represen
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World War II Britain loses 230 tanks in desert battles.
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Etienne Leroux (Stephanus Petrus Daniël le Roux), SA author of, inter alia, ‘Magersfontein, o Magersfontein!’ is born in Oudts
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Sir Bernard Oppenheimer (55), diamond buyer and brother of Sir Ernest, dies.
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Bambata Rebellion: Sigananda surrenders.
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Dr Werner W.M. Eiselen, co-founder of the South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (Sabra) and promoter of the concept of separat
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Basil Rathbone, SA born actor who played the role of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen movies, is born.
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Voortrekker leader Commandant Andries Hendrik Potgieter obtains the territory between the Vet and Vaal rivers from the Bataung
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The first preserved entry in the journal of Adam Tas carries this date.
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Joseph Kabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC. Kabila is the country’s first democratically elected president in over fo
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The health department slams the SA National Blood Service for revealing that Mbeki’s blood had been rejected because he decline
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Rebels of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army spend the first day of their first-ever visit to Sudan’s capital since the civil wa
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Nine staff members of a training company and a pilot are killed when their plane crashes near the N17 freeway minutes after tak
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Swapo wins the third general election in Namibia and President Sam Nujoma is elected for his third term of office as president.
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Zimbabwean Nick Price, defending champion of the Nedbank Million Dollar Golf Tournament at Sun City, wins again when he beats T
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President Nelson Mandela arrives in the United Arabian Emirates as guest of honour at the annual conference of Arabian countrie
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Rouaz Lakhdar, Algerian supreme court justice, is murdered.
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Twelve people are killed in Kathlehong, East Rand, as a result of the bloody feud between ANC Youth League and SDU.
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Headman Tshabalala, SA singer and founder member of the group Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed in a roadside argumen
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Marches are staged by the ANC in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Bloemfontein in the framework of the organisation’s "mass mobi
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The Star reports that a Group Areas Bill, which sought to increase drastically the penalties for contravention of the Group Are
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