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The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) sign an agreement on wages and working conditions averting the
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Following unrest and rioting in the townships, the Minister of Law and Order prohibits all meetings of more than two persons, d
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Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa and leader of the National Party from 1966 to 1978 and State Preside
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William Ewart Gladstone (W.E.G.) Louw, SA poet and literator and younger brother of N.P. van Wyk Louw, is born in Sutherland.
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Anna (Sister Annie) Tempo, community and social worker and founder of ‘Nanny House’ for destitute girls on the streets of Cape
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Jahleel Brenton, SA artist and marine officer after whom the islands Brenton and Jahleel were called, is born in Warwick, Engla
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Haile Gebrselassie, long distance Ethiopian athlete and the first to run the 5 000 m in less than thirteen minutes and the 10 0
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Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes in “conflict situations”
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Two White men are killed and twelve Africans injured in a clash between mine officials and miners outside the number one shaft
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Britain, France, and Spain sign the Pact of Cartagena – an agreement to maintain the status quo in the Mediterranean and West
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Matome Maponya, chair/owner of several food companies in his name and deputy chair of the Agricultural and Rural Development Co
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The Brederode, belonging to the Dutch East India Company and carrying a cargo of porcelain, tin and spices, runs aground on the
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Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da
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A prominent White South African lawyer and ANC member, Albie Sachs, is seriously wounded by a car bomb in Maputo. The ANC and M
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A punitive commando under joint command of Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter is sent off to punish Dingane and return stolen cattl
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Thousands of Africans, Indians and Coloured people demonstrate in major towns and take the pledge. Dr. Dadoo says this is the b
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The ANC presents an ultimatum which includes demands for the firing of Law and Order Minister Adriaan Vlok and Defence Minister
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. P.A. Cronje and his wife, with Colonel Adorf Schiel and about 1 000 Republican prisoners of war, sails f
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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, and a member of the Xhosa Bible revision board, is born in Gqumahashe
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Bertie Reed (63), for many years a Springbok and international sailing legend and one of the most-popular skippers in single-ha
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President Mandela extends both the cut-off date for amnesty applications and the deadline for applications to the Truth and Rec
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Newton Adams, missionary and first medical doctor in Natal and his wife, arrive together with the Rev. Daniel Lindley, later mi
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Eight Army officers are paraded by President Samora Machel at a mass rally in Maputo and are accused of treason and complicity
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Ivory Coast’s two western rebel groups, the Movement for Justice and Peace and the Ivorian Popular Movement of the Greater West
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Derek Hanekom, Deputy Minister of Science and Technology of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004 and former ministe
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Jan Willem van der Rijst (’Oom Willem’), activist for Afrikaans and author of the first Spelling and Reading book for Afrikaans
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Aliens Act No 1, restricting and regulating the entry of certain aliens into the Union and regulating the right of any person t
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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in
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