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The SAA Rietbok crashes into the sea at Kayser’s Beach near East London, with the loss of twenty-five lives.
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Bertie van Zyl (72), biggest tomato farmer in the world and owner of tomato farm ZZ2, dies in a Pretoria hospital.
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Black Men in a White Man’s War: The Impact of the First World War on South African Blacks by Albert Grundlingh
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Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third legitimate son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, is born in Griqualand West.
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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith visits the United States, challenging officials to support his plan for the transition of go
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The Rev. Dirk van der Hoff, pioneer minister of religion, designer of the ‘Transvaalse Vierkleur’ and friend of Commandant-Gene
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Eight people, including Sam Nywayo, are killed during a two-hour attack on the homes of ANC activists in Esikhaweni, Natal.
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President Idi Amin of Uganda offers to dispatch a ten-man investigation mission to South Africa. South Africa replies by inviti
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Leaders of five black African nations decline to accept plan presented by Rhodesia’s Prime Minister Ian Smith to achieve black
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The ‘Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners’ (GRA), society founded as a direct outcome of the efforts by A. Pannevis to have the Bibl
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The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into Consolidation of the ‘Homelands’, Hennie van der Walt, speaking at the National
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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria to discuss majority ru
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J.G.N. Strauss is elected leader of the United Party in succession to General Jan Smuts, who died a few days earlier.
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South African Airways (SAA) announces the re-routing of its services to Europe via Luanda (Angola), Brazzaville, the Cape Verde
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The Heeren XVII refuses the catching of whales, suggested by Van Riebeeck to supplement the income generated at the Cape.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Graaff-Reinet, P.J. Fourie, J. van Rensburg and L.F.S. Pfeiffer are executed by a British firing squad for
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J. van Arkel, the first resident Dutch clergyman, arrives at the Cape. Date is given as 17 August by another source.
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Ex-State Attorney J.C. Smuts’ baby son, Kosie, dies. Smuts later became prime minister of the Union of South Africa.
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Christiaan Afrikaner, son of Jonker Afrikaner and Nama chief, is killed in battle at Otjimbingue, German West Africa. He wa
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A flying instructor for microlight aircrafts, Willem Bester, and his pupil, L.P. van der Merwe, die when their craft crashes on
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Ex-State Attorney J.C. Smuts’ baby son, Kosie, dies. Smuts later became prime minister of the Union of South Africa.
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Christiaan Afrikaner, son of Jonker Afrikaner and Nama chief, is killed in battle at Otjimbingue, German West Africa. He wa
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In a joint statement, Government and the PAC say they agreed on the urgent need for the establishment of a more representative
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The Afrikaans language festival, “Die Wonder van Afrikaans” which started on April 6 in Cape Town, ends at the Voortrekker monu
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After joint talks with Ian Smith of Rhodesia, the Prime Minister B.J. Vorster commits South Africa to co-operative coexistence
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Anti-apartheid Afrikaners led by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, IDASA director, meet with the ANC in Frankfurt, to discuss a post-a
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The Natal Supreme Court declares the ban on campaigns for the release of detainees invalid. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Comdt Jan H. Theron, Danie Theron’s successor as commander of Theron’s Scouts, dies of gastric fever in the C
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Willem Cornelis Janse van Rensburg, president of the ZAR for seven months, is born in the Uitenhage district, Eastern Cape.
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