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Johannes Casparus Lotter (45), who made two silver communion chalices for the ‘Groote Kerk’ in Cape Town, dies.
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The Santo Alberto is wrecked on the coast of Pondoland. The survivors who reached Delagoa Bay established considerably greater
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World TB Day, instituted to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world.
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About 130 people are reported drowned or missing when a Nigerian boat capsizes along the coast of the Cameroons.
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Six girls and three teachers of a primary school in Vereeniging die when the minibus in which they are travelling overturns bet
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Egypt’s state security court finds Sherif al-Filali, an Egyptian engineer, guilty of spying on behalf of Israel, and sentences
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South Africa wins the first cricket test on Newlands against Sri Lanka with 70 runs.
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The first wave of a US military task force moves cautiously into central Africa, preparing for a possible evacuation of America
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At a rally in the Tugela Ferry district of Kwazulu-Natal some 6,000 lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters come armed with figh
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Following an interim report of the Goldstone Commission, which probed allegations of a Third Force in political violence, Presi
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Ephraim Ndebele (44), Inkatha supporting councillor and member of the Umlazi Dispute Resolution Committee and Robert Sekobi, al
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The National Party (NP) government put its revised constitutional proposals on the table during the Convention for Democratic S
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Nine policemen are to be charged with murder after the findings of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Sebokeng shooti
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The Star reports the opinion of a prominent educationist, Dr Franz Auerbach, on the book Black Matriculation Results: A Mechani
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The South African police shoots twenty-one people in KwaNobuhle, where the residents had killed a community leader and his thre
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Dorothy Nyembe is released and participates in activities of Natal Organisation of Women (NOW).
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South Africa is to expand its military call-up to include all White men aged between seventeen and sixty-five, almost doubling
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The HNP’s policies are defined by its leader, Jaap Marais: no concessions to the Black man; withdrawal of South Africa from the
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Nominations for the elections close with candidates for the 165 seats in the House of Assembly being nominated as follows: Nati
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The Prime Minister defends John Vorster’s statement, denying that a constitutional crisis has been created. The two major oppos
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Three more detainees are released: the Chairman of the ‘Committee of, Dr. N. Motlana, a member of the Committee, L. Mosala, and
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South Africa is banned from competing in the Davis Cup, as a result of South Africa’s apartheid stand in sport.
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South African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment in Pretoria on communism charges.
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French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.
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The Minister of Water Affairs announces an ambitious scheme to harness the Orange River for power and irrigation at a cost of R
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South Africa signs multilateral treaty embodying results of the 1960-61 Tariff Conference pertaining to the General Agreement o
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Robert Sobukwe, President of the Pan Africanist Congress, Kitchener Leballo, its national secretary, and 11 others are charged
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Makgabo Rufus Maruma, world respected Tourism, Environmental and Waste Management expert and founder of Bohlweki Environmental
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Ednah Molewa, Premier of the North West Province since 22 April 2004, is born.
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