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In a cabinet reshuffle, Louis le Grange, Minister of Law and Order, is replaced by Adriaan Vlok, Deputy Minister of Defence and
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James John Hadebe, anti-apartheid activist and later representative of the ANC in Cairo and East Africa, is born in Frankfort,
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Cameroon, Kenya, Mauritania and Iraq call for the expulsion of South Africa from the United Nations. Britain, France and the Un
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Cameroon, Kenya, Mauritania and Iraq call for the expulsion of South Africa from the United Nations. Britain, France and the Un
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Bambata Rebellion: Messeni (also spelt Mseni) and Ndlovu ka Timuni are captured while on their way to surrender, and the Rebell
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”Smuts Refuted”: Joint Statement Of Dr. Dadoo And Dr. Naicker On The Correspondence Between General Smuts And Pandit Nehru, August 1947
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World War II: East Africa. British posts at Kassala and Gallabat, on the borders of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), Eritrea, and Suda
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SA tennis player Wesley Moodie and Australian Stephen Huss win the Wimbledon Men’s double title by beating twins Bob and Mike B
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Identification Act No 72 commences. It repealed the 1952 Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act and la
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Members of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD) attend a rally in Cape Town. Similar rallies were held in Durban and Jo
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A number of student leaders at the University of the Western Cape and other community leaders are arrested and detained at Vict
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Cassim Mohammed Bassa, estate agent and community leader, is born in India. He was president of the Natal Indian Blind and
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The Security Council adopts resolution 181 calling upon all States to cease the sale and shipment of arms, ammunition and milit
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Mosibudi Mangena, Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004 and also president of
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Three ANC members are sentenced to death for attacks directed against the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the
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Riots start in Durban townships and continue up to 14 August. Seventy people, police, amabutho and activists, are killed in the
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A forty-eight-hour strike and a week of mass action starts to force an early transition to majority rule and effective measures
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Archduke Frans Ferdinand, Austrian heir to the throne, and his wife are shot and killed by a student in Sarajevo. This lead
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Pierre Jacy Fourie, boxer and winner of the middle and light-heavyweight SA titles, is born in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was
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A peace summit (23-24 June) brokered by the clergy and business and attended by all major political parties, but boycotted by
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Armed hostel inmates shoot and hack their way through the Black township of Boipatong, leaving forty-six people dead and scores
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James Arnold (Jimmy) La Guma, trade unionist and political activist, member of the SACP and president of the South African Colo
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The UN Security Council authorises an urgent airlift of food and medicine for Somalia and demands the cooperation of warring fa
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Prof. Ulrich Gerhard Lauts (78), who reported on the Great Trek and further adventures of the Voortrekkers and who was appointe
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The UN negotiates a ceasefire between Israel and the defeated Egypt, Syria and Jordan, ending the Six-Day War, with Israel occu
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Sen. Johannes (Jan) de Klerk, minister of Education, Art and Science, president of the Senate and father of former Pres. F.W. d
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Adriaan Vlok, former minister of Law and Order and Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former police commissioner, tells the TRC former P
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Christoffel Coetzee, SA author and winner of the Eugène Marais and M-Net awards for his novel ‘Op soek na generaal Mannetjies
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Habib Mohamed (A.M.) Rajab, trader and collector of oriental art, and remembered for his role in preventing the Grey Street com
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