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World War 2: Egypt’s Premier Ahmed Pasha is assassinated after announcing Egypt’s declaration of war against Germany.
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The Nederduitsch Hervormde church in Du Toit street, Pretoria, is inaugurated by Prof. P.J. Muller – the first clergyman in T
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The Diggers News appears in Johannesburg.
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Father Bernard Huss, founder of the first cooperative associations for Black farmers in SA, is born in Wurtemberg, Germany.
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Rev. Dirk van der Hoff inaugurates the Nederduitsch Hervormde church in Potchefstroom.
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Edenburg is established in the Orange Free State as a church village. The Volksraad granted application for recognition as a to
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Sir William Henry Beaumont, judge and private secretary of the administrator of Natal, is born in India. He was chairman of t
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Julius Gottlieb Jeppe, founder of the Jeppe and Ford Estate Company that planned the first Johannesburg suburbs, is born in Ros
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Sir Henry Barkly, Cape Governor, is born in London.
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In Abuja, a senator announces that Nigeria’s Senate has launched an investigation into allegations that several people were kil
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A total of 21 000 driving licences will have to be cancelled after a former Limpopo traffic officer, M.S. Pela, appears in cour
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Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel announces during the reading of the budget in Parliament that his ministry and the Reserve Ba
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The South African Defence Force is accused of delaying the process of integrating former guerrilla forces.
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South Africa signs agreement with Angola on the establishment of representative offices.
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Dr. Allan Boesak and the journalist Elna Botha is married in the St. Stephens church in Cape Town.
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Police are instructed not to arrest people breaking the Separate Amenities Act.
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The UN’s Human Rights Commission adopts a resolution backing the armed struggle to eliminate apartheid in South Africa. Only Br
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Mr Clase, minister of education and culture (White own affairs) says in parliament that race quotas at White technikons have be
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The Prime Minister declares that Soviet threats will not prevent South Africa from attacking ANC bases in Mozambique.
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The Minister of Justice and the Police, Jimmy Kruger, states that a full-scale judicial commission of inquiry into deaths in de
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Herschelle Gibbs, SA cricket player, is born in Green Point, Cape Town.
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The Prime Minister condemns, in the strongest terms, a gift of $450,000 announced by the World Council of Churches (WCC) to Sou
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The Bantu Laws Amendment Bill is passed.
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SAA inaugurates the first direct weekly flight between Johannesburg and New York, via Rio de Janeiro.
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Britain recognises President Abdul Amari Karume’s regime in Zanzibar.
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At the annual conference of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Leopoldville, fifteen African states table a d
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Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, becomes the Leader of Government Business in the Gold Coast A
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Mabelindile Archie Luhlabo, chair of SA Teemane Co., Johannesburg, director of the Mineworkers Investment Co. and also of Globa
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Allan Boesak, clergyman and prominent political figure, is born.
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