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Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.

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Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.

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A student, Eric Ngomane (22), dies in KaNgwane, allegedly shot by police while trying to escape.

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William Richard Tolbert Jr., president of Liberia, is killed in a military coup. Samuel Kanyon Doe, the Chairman of the People’

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The Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA) is formed in London, UK.

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Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that three members of the staff of the United States Embassy in South Africa have been give

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Harry Abt, rabbi and Jewish cultural innovator who wrote numerous articles on Jewish historical and educational subjects, dies

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Atlas Corporation completes deliveries to the South African Air Force (SAAF) of a first series of Impala MK-2 jet fighters.

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President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is the first French president to visit Algeria since independence was achieved in 196

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Daniël Francois Malherbe (87), SA novelist, poet, dramatist and scholar, dies in Bloemfontein.

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Sydney Richfield (84), London-born composer of Afrikaans songs, dies.

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Meetings of more than ten Africans banned in all major urban areas.

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Garth Erasmus, SA artist, is born in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. He attended a teachers training program at Hewat Training College

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Nomatyala Hangana, Deputy Minister of Provincial and Local Government of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is b

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Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.

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Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is born in Durban.

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French authorities suppress a revolt in Madagascar.

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C. Louis Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town.

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Jacob Zuma, former SA vice-president and vice-president of the ANC, is born.

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Jacobus Johannes (Koos) Den Houting, SA sculptor, is born in Alicedale, Cape Province.

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Mannetjies Roux, SA rugby player, is born.

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J.H. Conradie, Administrator of the Cape Province, lays the corner stone of Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town.

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The USA does not join the League of Nations.

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Geoffrey Walter Ashton Chubb, SA cricket player in five test matches, is born in East London.

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William Henry Maskew, one of the first Afrikaans poets, dies.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people

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Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, a chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele born c. 1840, dies and is buried at Wallmannstal, north of

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Shepstone proclaims Transvaal a British colony despite Boer protests and hoists the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria. ;

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Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai

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Unknown men shoot Chris Ngwenya, IFP Youth Brigade Official, and his wife dead in Wesselton, Eastern Transvaal.

Alan Paton, author of Cry, the Beloved Country and founder member of the Liberal Party in 1953, dies.

A student, Eric Ngomane (22), dies in KaNgwane, allegedly shot by police while trying to escape.

William Richard Tolbert Jr., president of Liberia, is killed in a military coup. Samuel Kanyon Doe, the Chairman of the People’

The Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA) is formed in London, UK.

Prime Minister P.W. Botha announces that three members of the staff of the United States Embassy in South Africa have been give

Harry Abt, rabbi and Jewish cultural innovator who wrote numerous articles on Jewish historical and educational subjects, dies

Atlas Corporation completes deliveries to the South African Air Force (SAAF) of a first series of Impala MK-2 jet fighters.

President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing is the first French president to visit Algeria since independence was achieved in 196

Daniël Francois Malherbe (87), SA novelist, poet, dramatist and scholar, dies in Bloemfontein.

Sydney Richfield (84), London-born composer of Afrikaans songs, dies.

Meetings of more than ten Africans banned in all major urban areas.

Garth Erasmus, SA artist, is born in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. He attended a teachers training program at Hewat Training College

Nomatyala Hangana, Deputy Minister of Provincial and Local Government of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is b

Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.

Pravin Jamnadas Gordhan, Commissioner of the South African Revenue Service and former ANC MP, is born in Durban.

French authorities suppress a revolt in Madagascar.

C. Louis Leipoldt (66), SA author, poet, physician and connoisseur of the SA culinary art, dies in Cape Town.

Jacob Zuma, former SA vice-president and vice-president of the ANC, is born.

Jacobus Johannes (Koos) Den Houting, SA sculptor, is born in Alicedale, Cape Province.

Mannetjies Roux, SA rugby player, is born.

J.H. Conradie, Administrator of the Cape Province, lays the corner stone of Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town.

The USA does not join the League of Nations.

Geoffrey Walter Ashton Chubb, SA cricket player in five test matches, is born in East London.

William Henry Maskew, one of the first Afrikaans poets, dies.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Peace negotiations commence in Pretoria between delegations of the Boer Republics and General Lord Kitchener

Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse witnesses the clearing of Warrenton and the dispatch of people in open coal trucks. The people

Johannes Jane Tane Kekana, a chief of the Lebelo clan of the Ndebele born c. 1840, dies and is buried at Wallmannstal, north of

Shepstone proclaims Transvaal a British colony despite Boer protests and hoists the Union Jack on Church Square in Pretoria. ;

Reinhold Gregorowski, the judge who sentenced the leaders of the Reform Committee to death after the failure of the Jameson Rai