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Libya produces two men accused of blowing up an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, but insists they’ll never go to tri
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Foreign TV crews are prohibited from filming incidents of unrest in South Africa’s Black townships.
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Top leadership officials of the United Democratic Front (UDF) are arrested. Of the thirteen detained, six are to be charged for
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Eighteen people die in Crossroads, Cape Town, when police fire on protestors.
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A bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures seventy-six Blacks seeking registr
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The Navy frigate SAS President Kruger sinks at Cape Point after colliding with the SAS Tafelberg, eighteen people die.
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In a joint statement the leaders of seven Black ‘homelands’ set out the basis of a possible consensus solution for South Africa
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The election of the first government sponsored Soweto Community Council is poorly supported.
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The space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, goes on its maiden flight.
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All activities of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) are suspended until further notice. The announcement is made
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The Lebanese government decides to break off diplomatic relations with South Africa.
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John Vorster formally opens a new submarine cable between Cape Town and Lisbon.
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The government drops two Bills, which were designed to enforce racial segregation on university campuses.
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Gambia becomes Africa’s 36th state when it gains independence from Britain.
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President Leon M’ba is restored to power in Gabon by French troops, following an attempted coup led by Jean-Hilaire Aubume.
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Rugby teams of SA and France play to a draw with no score in Paris.
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Jeffrey Thamsanqa (Jeff) Radebe, SA Minister of Transport (2004), is born.
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Dr Hasmukh Gajjar, medical practitioner, former chair of the Vodacom Group and managing director of various IT companies, is bo
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WW2: Mega, the Italian headquarters in southern Abyssinia, falls to SA forces.
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Southern Rhodesian Minister of Railways H.W. Moffat visits Cape Town to discuss the building of Beit Bridge over the Limpopo Ri
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Samuel Marks (Sammy), diamond buyer of Kimberley, founder of the African and European Investment Company and senator in the par
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The Cape Premier, Sir J. Gordon Sprigg, resigns.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Paardeberg, which was to last up to 27 February, starts with an attack by the British under Maj
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A customs union and railway extension are proposed at a conference of delegations from the Cape Colony, Natal and the Orange Fr
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British forces under General Charles Gordon reach Khartoum in Sudan.
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The Constitution of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic, commonly known as Transvaal Republic) is finally r
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According to Nongqawuse’s prophecy to the Xhosa people, on this day the sun will rise and set again in the east and a whirlwind
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Two young lions are dispatched from Cape Town to Ceylon as a gift to the King of Kandy. http://www.news24.com
EventAhmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian Prime Minister, is assassinated
Ahmad Mahir Pasha, the Egyptian prime minister, was assassinated in parliament following his announcement that Egypt was declaring war on the Axis powers. The…
EventFifteen African states tabled a draft resolution at the UN denouncing racial discrimination
At the annual conference of the United Nations (UN) Economic Commission for Africa at Leopoldville in Congo, fifteen African states tabled a draft resolution…