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Michael Zondi, SA artist, is born in Msinga, Greytown, Natal. He was trained in woodwork at the Swedish Lutheran Mission

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Angry White workers, on strike since 28 December, storm and occupy police stations, railway installations and mines at the Rand

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Nationalists riot in Cairo following deportation from Egypt of Said Zaghul Pasha.

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The Koopmans-De Wet Museum is opened in Cape Town.

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Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson promises in his opening of the Cape parliament that all Cape rebels who fought in Anglo-Boer War 2 w

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Britain signs treaty with Uganda to regulate government with British commissioner as adviser.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under Lord Roberts conquers the Boers in the battle of Driefontein.

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French colonies of French Guinea and Ivory Coast are formally established.

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Sir Henry B. Loch opens the railway line between the Cape Colony and the Orange Free State.

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Sarah Gertrude Millin, SA author, is born in Lithuania.

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Jan Gerritze Bantjes, teacher and secretary to the provisional Voortrekker administration and to Comdt.-Gen. Andries Pretorius,

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Britain and France recognise independence of Zanzibar.

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The farm Lang Leegte (of which the suburb Langlaagte now forms part) where the first gold was discovered, is registered in the

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Christoffel Coetzee, compiler of SA genealogies, is born.

Archibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.

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Archibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.

The first slave arrives at the Cape

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The first slave arrives at the Cape

South African born Charlize Theron wins an Oscar for best actress in the movie Monster

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South African born Charlize Theron wins an Oscar for best actress in the movie Monster

Mogadishu seaport is handed over to the combined task force by UN

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Mogadishu seaport is handed over to the combined task force by UN

The town of Bethlehem, Free State, is founded

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The town of Bethlehem, Free State, is founded

The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed

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The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed

Archbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.

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Archbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.

Potlako Leballo - The Man Who Hurried to Meet His Destiny by Joel Bolnick

Pandit Nehru and the unity of the oppressed people of South Africa by E.S. Reddy

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Mr Zulu, ANC official of Estcourt, Natal, is shot and killed while driving his car.

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested outside parliament while leading a protest march against the death sentence of the Sharpevi

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Alpheus Hamilton Zulu, bishop of Zululand and later president of the World Council of Churches (WCC), dies in Ulundi, Natal. He

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Justice Petrus Cillié submits to Parliament his report on the violent racial disturbances began in Soweto in June 1976,

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Certificates of citizenship in the ‘homelands’ are to be issued by seven homeland authorities in their respective capitals in t

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The Government is called upon to repeal the Suppression of Communism Act and the Bantu Authorities Act by 29 February1952, fail

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The Stern gang blows up a train carrying British troops between Cairo and Haifa, killing twenty-seven soldiers.