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Nigeria’s military government orders the immediate release of at least 400 people imprisoned under the late military ruler Gen.
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Three motorcars are burned, another twenty damaged and an auditorium set alight when 3 000 members of the National Union of Min
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Three children die near Ladysmith, Natal, as pleasure-seekers without warning open the floodgates of the Windsor Dam.
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A grenade attack is launched on the ANC headquarters in Johannesburg. It is blamed by the ANC on a ‘third force’, and is linked
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General Constand Viljoen reassures RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama that the agreement between South Africa and Mozambique to sett
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Tens of thousands of Hutus flee the Tutsi-led rebel advance in Rwanda, flooding across the border into Zaire in one of the grea
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Dominic Mahlangu, IFP’s Etholeni leader, is shot dead when unidentified attackers in a car pulled up outside his home.
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At the request of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the Security Council convenes on 15 to 16 July to examine the issue
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Chamber of Commerce and Industry of USSR and South African Chamber of Mines sign an agreement to promote exchange of informatio
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The Star reports that Bophuthatswana’s administration has decided not to publish the findings of Mr Justice E.A.T. Smith, one-m
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Andrew Harold Makope disappears in Mamelodi after being taken into a light blue combi a short distance from his home by armed m
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A group of nine young activists is shot by the SA Police in a house in Vlaklaagte, KwaNdebele.
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South African Basketball Federation is expelled from the International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA) in protest against
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The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, announces that the provisions of the Internal Security Act, allowing for the unlimited d
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The SA rugby team beats France 26-3 in the first test in Durban.
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Dr. Verwoerd announces that the government has decided to withdraw from the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) owing to the h
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Ebrahim Rasool, leader of the ANC in the Western Cape and premier of that province, is born.
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H.A. Fagan, former Chief Justice and Minister of Native Affairs, agrees to become leader of the National Union. Its founder, J.
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UN troops arrive to help deal with the political crisis following Moïse-Kapenda Tshombe’s declaration of independence for Kata
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The first Boeing 707 jet aircraft arrives in South Africa, heralding a new era in aviation in South Africa.
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Walter Sisulu and P.P.D. Nokwe, a former teacher and member of the African National Congress, go overseas under false names and
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Passive Resister reports that Moulvi Saloojee, one of the most respected Muslim priests and an active member of the Working Com
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When Albertina marries Walter Sisulu, Anton Lembede warns her that she is marrying a man who is already married to the nation.
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Frans Oerder (77), SA painter, dies in Pretoria.
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Christiaan Johan Barnard, SA author, is born.
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Cornelis Jacob Langenhoven, SA author and writer of the words of Die Stem, dies at his home ‘Arbeidsgenot’ in Oudtshoorn.
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WWI: The Battle of Delville Wood, the bloodiest battle ever fought by South Africans, starts. It lasted till 20 July. Of th
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Johannes Hendrikus (Jan) Stander, champion of Afrikaans, deputy director of education in Natal, founder of the Afrikaner Club a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Dr K. Franks, camp doctor at the Mafeking concentration camp reports that the camp is “overwhelmed” by 1 270
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