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First election giving Black majority full voting powers in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) takes place.

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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe (54), founder member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress, dies in the Kimberle

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Ethiopia’s cabinet resigns as military mutiny spreads from captured city of Asmara.

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Following the interim Schlebusch report tabled earlier the day, banning orders under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 a

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The Schlebusch Commission of Inquiry, appointed by the prime minister to investigate the activities of four organisations, amon

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South Africa signs a treaty with the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland amending the trade agreement of 16 May 1960.

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The SA Amendment Act abrogates the entrenched clauses protecting the Cape C Coloured voters.

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Robert Graeme Pollock, South African cricket player, is born in Durban.

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Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo, member of the South African Communist party and prominent politician, goes on trial for making anti-war

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Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer, political activist and husband of Victoria Mxenge, is born in King William’s To

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J.P. (Pieter) de Lange, chairman of the Afrikanerbroederbond, and head of the commission of the Human Sciences Research Council

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The Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment to the constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.

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Several people are killed or arrested during the first skirmish between White labour and the government in the Rand Revolt.

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Johanna Catharina Jacoba Cornelius, full-time organiser and general secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union and sister of Heste

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C.M. van den Heever (Christiaan Maurits), Afrikaans novelist, is born in the concentration camp at Norvalspont.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: On the same day both the oldest and the youngest prisoners of war to be deported, are captured at Dwaalspruit

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Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under Gen. Redvers Buller break through the Boer lines during the Battle of Pietershoogte.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer general Piet Cronje surrenders with 3 919 men (nearly 10% of the total republican fighting strength)

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The sovereignty of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is recognised by Britain with the signing of the Treaty of London, exactly t

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Anglo-Boer War 1: Boers defeat the British force at Majuba Hill, in the Anglo-Transvaal War. More than 200 British soldiers and

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A severe flood strikes Victoria West during the night after a cloudburst in the mountains to the south-west. More than sixt

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Britain annexes the Offshore Islands off the Namibian coast to the Cape of Good Hope.

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Bethlehem, OFS, is founded.

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Rijk Tulbagh, born in Utrecht, Holland, in 1699, becomes Governor of the Cape.

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Shortly before midnight five men drown and two are washed out to sea during what was supposed to be a routine baptism ceremony

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Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo

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A run-away truck wrecks havoc in Potgieter Street, Pretoria.

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A Sudanese military plane crashes in Sudan, killing all seventy passengers and crew on board.

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Adriaan Vlok, former apartheid era minister of law and order, applies to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty th

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Defence Minister Roelf Meyer (1991-1996) says that the ANC’s proposals on joint control of security forces and on a role for th

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First election giving Black majority full voting powers in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) takes place.

Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe (54), founder member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress, dies in the Kimberle

Ethiopia’s cabinet resigns as military mutiny spreads from captured city of Asmara.

Following the interim Schlebusch report tabled earlier the day, banning orders under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 a

The Schlebusch Commission of Inquiry, appointed by the prime minister to investigate the activities of four organisations, amon

South Africa signs a treaty with the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland amending the trade agreement of 16 May 1960.

The SA Amendment Act abrogates the entrenched clauses protecting the Cape C Coloured voters.

Robert Graeme Pollock, South African cricket player, is born in Durban.

Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo, member of the South African Communist party and prominent politician, goes on trial for making anti-war

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer, political activist and husband of Victoria Mxenge, is born in King William’s To

J.P. (Pieter) de Lange, chairman of the Afrikanerbroederbond, and head of the commission of the Human Sciences Research Council

The Supreme Court upholds the 19th Amendment to the constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.

Several people are killed or arrested during the first skirmish between White labour and the government in the Rand Revolt.

Johanna Catharina Jacoba Cornelius, full-time organiser and general secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union and sister of Heste

C.M. van den Heever (Christiaan Maurits), Afrikaans novelist, is born in the concentration camp at Norvalspont.

Anglo-Boer War 2: On the same day both the oldest and the youngest prisoners of war to be deported, are captured at Dwaalspruit

Anglo-Boer War 2: British troops under Gen. Redvers Buller break through the Boer lines during the Battle of Pietershoogte.

Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer general Piet Cronje surrenders with 3 919 men (nearly 10% of the total republican fighting strength)

The sovereignty of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is recognised by Britain with the signing of the Treaty of London, exactly t

Anglo-Boer War 1: Boers defeat the British force at Majuba Hill, in the Anglo-Transvaal War. More than 200 British soldiers and

A severe flood strikes Victoria West during the night after a cloudburst in the mountains to the south-west. More than sixt

Britain annexes the Offshore Islands off the Namibian coast to the Cape of Good Hope.

Bethlehem, OFS, is founded.

Rijk Tulbagh, born in Utrecht, Holland, in 1699, becomes Governor of the Cape.

Shortly before midnight five men drown and two are washed out to sea during what was supposed to be a routine baptism ceremony

Ethiopian troops breach Eritrean lines in a disputed border area, and Eritrea soon says it will accept an African peace plan fo

A run-away truck wrecks havoc in Potgieter Street, Pretoria.

A Sudanese military plane crashes in Sudan, killing all seventy passengers and crew on board.

Adriaan Vlok, former apartheid era minister of law and order, applies to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty th

Defence Minister Roelf Meyer (1991-1996) says that the ANC’s proposals on joint control of security forces and on a role for th