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A cabinet minister restates the government’s policy for the Coloured people. Any policy, or lack thereof, which can lead to int

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The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, announces the suspension, from 11 January 1965, of the clause in the General Law Amendme

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Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium.

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Walter Sisulu, John Mavuso, Moses Kotane, Marks Ramitloa and Betty du Toit attend a Christmas party in aid of the high treason

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The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts resolution 616(VII) establishing a three-member Commission to study the racia

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Devikarani Priscilla Jana, jurist, activist and ANC politician, is born in Durban.

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Louis Edmund Benjamin (70), judge of the Cape Supreme Court, dies.

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The Pretoria City Hall is officially inaugurated.

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Italian and Ethiopian troops clash at the Ualual (Welwel) on the disputed Somali-Ethiopian border.

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The United South African National Party, also known as the United Party, is officially formed with the fusion of the National P

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The SA rugby team beats Wales 8-3 in Swansea.

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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe, Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) leader who was imprisoned and under house arrest for many year

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Schalk Willem Burger, vice-president and acting president of the ZAR after President Kruger left for Europe in 1900, dies at Go

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Santam (Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Trusten Assuransie-Maatskappy Bpk) is founded by five men with C.F. Fichardt as chairman.

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Cassim Mahomed Lakhi, lecturer and later head of the Department of History of Art in the University College for Indians (later

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General Louis Botha, SA prime minister, unveils a monument on the grave of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first president of the Z

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Italian forces at Tripoli defeat Turks.

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Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, is born on the farm M

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The British government again restricts the Cape Colony to the old Fish River boundary.

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Thomas Pringle (45), journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London.

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The Wesleyan mission station Wesleyville, on the Twecu River in the present East London district, is founded by the Rev. Willia

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International Violence Day.

Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge

Mandela, Communism and South Africa by Stephen Ellis (Open Democracy), 25 July 2011, South Africa

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Edward Holcroft, general manager of NetDay South Africa, a non-profit organisation, announces the group has set up computer n

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South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on

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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) celebrates its 18th anniversary with a goal to become the first union forma

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Lucas Radebe, SA born soccer star, wins the Fifa Fair Play award, but is sent off the next day in a League game for Leeds.

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President Nelson Mandela and Steve Tshwete are given leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court against the verdict on the SAR

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The SA government decides to abolish price control on petrol and other liquid fuel, which means that these products can in futu