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SA sends troops to Ciskei to suppress mob attacks on factories and shops after military coup under Brigadier Gqozo ousted autho
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Brigadier Gqozo, having overthrown President Sebe’s administration on the previous day, declares a state of emergency in the Ci
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The World Health Organisation reports that more than 80 percent of South Africa’s people are “subjected to the most extreme for
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Ethiopia’s leader Haile Selassie, confronted by continued unrest, agrees to a constitutional convention to create a new system
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Reuben Tholakele (Thola) Caluza, Zulu composer and choir master who popularised Zulu folk music, dies in Durban.
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Derek Crookes, SA cricket player, is born.
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South Africa signs a multilateral declaration on the provisional accession of Iceland to the General Agreement on Tariffs and T
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European extremists in Oran, Algeria, raid a prison and kill several Muslim political prisoners.
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The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the first non-racial union, is formed.
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Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies. Some 2 000 people are crushed to death in the crowd during the funeral.
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Mmakgoba Helen Sebidi, SA artist, is born in Marapyane (Skilpadfontein), Hammanskraal area. Her grandmother, a traditio
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Durant Sihlali, SA artist, is born in Germiston. He exhibited in South Africa and Western Europe.
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Enoch Mgijima, Fingo prophet of the Israelites sect in the Eastern Cape, dies in Ntabelanga. His followers, believing Enoch’s c
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The first one-day flight between Cape Town and Pretoria takes place.
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SA troops led by Gen. Jan Smuts invade East Africa in their confrontation with German forces in World War I.
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Arthur Wegelin, SA composer, is born.
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Wentzel C. du Plessis, administrator of South West Africa, is born in Pretoria.
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Siegfried Mynhardt, SA actor, is born in Johannesburg.
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Cape Town’s Hely-Hutchinson Reservoir, named after Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, at one time governor of Natal and of the
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Rachel Isabella Steyn, wife of M.T. Steyn, president of the Orange Free State, is born in Philippolis.
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The South African Journal, with Thomas Pringle as editor, and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift are established in Cape Town.
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Georg Schmidt, first Protestant missionary (Moravian Brethren) in SA, who established a mission station under the Hottentots (K
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More than eighty million Africans may die from Aids by 2025, the United Nations says in Addis Ababa. The numbers could soar t
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Four striking truckers are shot and wounded by a security guard when about 150 protesters storm the gates of Cargo Carriers in
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President Mandela visits Togo for a few hours. He and Togolese President Eyadema review the situation in West Africa.
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General Constand Viljoen registers a new party, the Freedom Front (Vryheidsfront), for the forthcoming April election. Date is
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Algeria bans the Islamic Salvation Front. The Islamists take to arms and more than 75 000 people, most of them civilians, are k
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Ciskei’s President Lennox Sebe is overthrown in a coup. The homeland’s new military leader, Brigadier Oupa Gqozo, announces tha
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Several hundred political prisoners begin a hunger strike at Robben Island, the country’s highest-security prison, to demand th
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