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Dag Hammarskjold, Swedish diplomat, is elected secretary-general of United Nations.

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Spain demands control of the International Zone (Tangier) of Morocco.

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Bechuanaland (now Botswana) nationalist leader (and ex-Ngwato chief), Seretse Khama, is denied permission to see his wife by Br

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The United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) is established to research and prevent disease and improve public health wor

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WWII: British forces under Archibald Wavell evacuate Benghazi, Libya. Date given as 3 April 1941 in another source.

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The City Hall of Johannesburg is inaugurated.

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Empire-builder Cecil John Rhodes is buried at the World’s View in the Matopo Hills, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

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Anglo-Boer War 2: In one of the most savage incidents Col. Baden-Powell ‘persuades’ almost 700 Barolong women and children to

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The railway line from Pietermaritzburg to the Transvaal border at Charlestown, near Volksrust, is opened.

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Jan Carel Juta (52), father of the publishing industry in SA, is born in Chiswick, London.

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Sir Bartle Frere meets the Transvaal Boers assembled in support of their claim to independence. He promises them complete freed

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Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born i

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Frans Oerder, SA landscape and still life painter, is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Adoption of the Orange Free State constitution

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Adoption of the Orange Free State constitution

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The Boers of Potchefstroom and Winburg declare their independence.

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A punitive commando under joint command of Piet Uys and Hendrik Potgieter is sent off to punish Dingane and return stolen cattl

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Jan van Riebeeck sets foot ashore for the first time to try to find the best spot to erect a fort at the Cape.

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João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind. The stone is now kept in the South African M

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World Health Day. (GIED: Celebrating 10 years of Freedom, 2004).

Blacks in South Africa protest against segregation

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Blacks in South Africa protest against segregation

The death of Andries Tatane

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The death of Andries Tatane

The ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles

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The ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles

Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed

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Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed

South African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs

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South African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs

Dutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed

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Dutch East Indian Company, pioneer in the expansion of European settlement in South Africa is formed

Charlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born

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Charlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born

Gandhiji’s vision of a free South Africa: A collection of articles by E.S. Reddy

Gandhi and South Africa: 1914-1948 by E.S. Reddy and Gopalkrishna Gandhi

Apartheid: The United Nations and the International Community - A Collection of Speeches and Papers by E.S. Reddy

Anti-Apartheid movement and The United Nations by E. S. Reddy