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Gerard Sekoto (80), SA artist who left SA for Paris in 1947, dies.
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Finance Minister Barend du Plessis presents a budget offering a large tax incentive to business, with emphasis directed to the
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Nicholas (Boikie) Thlapi disappears after allegedly been taken into police custody at a roadblock at Stilfontein on his way fro
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Dr. Allan Boesak, President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, is exonerated by his church for having had an extra-mar
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A powerful bomb at 2:05 am destroys the cells behind the Langa Commissioner’s Court in Cape Town where thousands of pass law of
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The Conservative Party is founded in the Skilpadsaal in Pretoria with Dr Andries Treurnicht as leader. It brings together, in a
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KwaNdebele proclaimed a self-governing territory.
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Former South African Supreme Court judge, Judge J.F. Ludorf, claims he has evidence that two hired German killers were paid to
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SA signs agreement with Swaziland on the issue of notes and coin.
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Responding to the British Labour government’s re-imposition of an embargo on arms sales to South Africa, John Vorster tells Bri
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Evidence of guerrilla training in the Soviet Union and Tanzania is given in the trial of six people, on nineteen charges under
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Sports Minister, Dr. P. Koornhof, says the government will not allow organisations inside or outside the country to disrupt the
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The Budget introduced by the Minister of Finance, Dr. T.E. Dönges, provides the record sum of R202 million for defence and
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Police obtain information that Sisulu is an office bearer of Umkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation).
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Rioting and arson in Pondoland.
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The Transkei Territorial Authority, instituted in 1956 to replace the former Bunga, becomes an all-Black administrative body.
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Tunisia gains independence from France, becoming the Republic of Tunisia, under its first president, Habib Bourguiba. He also l
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The first mountain zebra foal is born in the National Mountain Zebra Park near Cradock.
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Daniel Cornelis Boonzaier, first cartoonist at a SA newspaper (Die Burger), dies in Cape Town.
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The first synoptic weather observations from Prince Edward and Marion Islands are received in SA.
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Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker met Mahatma Gandhi in Patna and held several hours of discussions with him (Mahatma Gandhi).
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John Joubert, South African composer, is born in Cape Town.
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Sir Pierre van Ryneveld and Quintin Brand arrive in Wynberg after the first flight from London to Cape Town.
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Fietas, Johannesburg: the mixed population is evacuated and the area burned to the ground.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In the British House of Commons David Lloyd George suggests that there are as many as 30 000 armed Blacks in
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The Rev. Jozua Francois Naude, church secretary of the Transvaal Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and founder of the first Af
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Charles Gustav Fichardt, founder member of the National Party and Bloemfontein businessman, is born in Bloemfontein.
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Diamonds to the worth of about £50,000 are stolen from the post office in Cape Town.
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Ryk Tulbach succeeds Hendrik Swellengrebel as governor of the Cape.
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