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The Commission, headed by S.L. Muller and appointed to study political interference and representation of population groups, pu
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Fidel Castro becomes premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista. Cuban intervention in the Angolan war started du
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Simon Moshapo, SA artist, is born in Waterpoort district, Northern Transvaal. He taught art at Batlhalerwa High School for pa
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South Africa institutes emergency powers under Public Safety Bill.
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Rika Sennett, South African actress, is born.
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The South African rugby team beats France in Paris 25-3.
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Bishop Henri Delalle, Catholic bishop in Natal, Swaziland and Transkei, dies.
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Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker are charged with aiding and abetting the contravention of the 1913 Immigrants Regulations Act and are s
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Remaining Italian forces are expelled from the Sudan.
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Prof. J.L.B. Smith sees the coelacanth, caught seven weeks earlier near East London, for the first time.
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Marita Napier, South African opera singer, is born.
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Leonore Veenemans, South African soprano, is born.
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The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen’s recently unearthed tomb is unsealed in Egypt.
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Mr Edmond Perret, general secretary of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) arrives in SA as head of a delegation of
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Thirteen rioters die when police fire shots to disperse a large crowd storming a bottle store in KwaZekele, Port Elizabeth.
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Eleven people are killed when Bophuthatswana police open fire on a 5 000-10 000 strong crowd gathered at a meeting called by yo
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Libyan radio calls for Arab suicide squads to strike US embassies and other interests "wherever they may be."
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South Africa and Lesotho issue a joint statement that their respective territories are not to be used for acts of terrorism aga
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President Sékou Touré of Guinea (62) dies under surgery. The Military Committee for National Recovery, led by C
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The Mozambique-South Africa Joint Security Commission meets for the first time in Maputo, as further raids are carried out agai
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The Lesotho government accuses South Africa of launching raids into Lesotho. South Africa denies this.
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Eight political detainees are released. They will all appear as state witnesses in the ‘Barbara Hogan case’ on 30 April 1982.
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Camp David peace treaty is signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at the White Hous
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The opposition moves to impeach President Vorster for his controversial intervention. However it requires the signature of thir
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Senator Owen Horwood announces a 36% rise in proposed defence expenditure, the defence budget being raised to R948, 122,000. Th
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William Frederick Nkomo, medical doctor, educationist and community leader who tried to bring different races closer together a
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The Prime Minister of Swaziland visits Cape Town for talks with John Vorster and confirms that a policy of friendship and coope
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SA signs treaty with Portugal (for Mozambique), amending Article XXXII of the Mozambique Convention.
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On this date all Africans become citizens of their ethnic ‘homelands’. However, they will not become foreigners in the Republic
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