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United Kingdom Government announces for the first time support for a UN General Assembly resolution against apartheid.

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The Van Riebeeck school hostel, built by the Afrikaans community in Kenya, is inaugurated.

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As riots rage around Cairo, the Egyptian army kills twenty-five civilians.

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Eighty-six South Africans survive a Japanese attack on the HMS Cornwall near the coast of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

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Pieter Hugo Naude (72), SA landscape and portrait painter, dies in Worcester.

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Kenneth Colin Bland, cricket player who played for South Africa in 21 test matches (1961-1967), is born in Bulawayo, Southern R

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Leonard Syer Bristowe (77), Transvaal judge, dies.

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Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon dies of an unknown disease some months after he and British archaeologist Howard Carter have discov

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Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C

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Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, is born in Lichtenburg, Tran

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Combat-General Georges-Henri Anne Marie Victor Compte de Villebois-Mareuil, a former commander in the French Foreign Legion, ma

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Start of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens.

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The Phoenix of France runs aground at Noetzie, near Knysna.

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Britain concludes Treaty of Pretoria with Boers, recognising independence of the ZAR. The Transvaal Triumvirate and a British R

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Jan van Riebeeck urged by the Vryburgers (Free Burghers), starts peace negotiations with the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi group).

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Table Mountain is sighted at 2.30 p.m. by a crewmember of the Drommedaris, the ship on which Jan van Riebeeck and his company w

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The newly formed DA-IFP &quot;coalition of change&quot; leaders of the parties, Tony Leon and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, hold their

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India and South Africa make a series of important agreements around a ‘strategic partnership’ pact.

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Eugene Terre ‘Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging is condemned to death seven times because he and two follower

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ANC insurgents launch a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station, Johannesburg. Pamphlets are scattered dema

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Barend Hendrik Janse van Rensburg (Ben) (80), founder of the War Museum in Bloemfontein, dies.

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Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Kata

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Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood, teacher and founder of the South African Library for the Blind, dies in Grahamstown.

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UN troops defending an airfield in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by ‘mobs’.

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Sultan Sayyidi Muhammad V ibn Yusuf arrives in northern Morocco in the hope of ending Spanish rule.

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Maxwell Mamase, MEC for Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, is born in Peddie, Eastern Cape

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United Kingdom Government announces for the first time support for a UN General Assembly resolution against apartheid.

UN anti-Apartheid sanctions against South Africa are opposed by the US.

The publications Torch and New Age arebanned.

Johan Kriek, SA tennis player and winner of the US Indoor 1982, is born.

A commission to monitor human rights abuses in Algeria is set up by France.

The Van Riebeeck school hostel, built by the Afrikaans community in Kenya, is inaugurated.

As riots rage around Cairo, the Egyptian army kills twenty-five civilians.

Eighty-six South Africans survive a Japanese attack on the HMS Cornwall near the coast of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).

Pieter Hugo Naude (72), SA landscape and portrait painter, dies in Worcester.

Kenneth Colin Bland, cricket player who played for South Africa in 21 test matches (1961-1967), is born in Bulawayo, Southern R

Leonard Syer Bristowe (77), Transvaal judge, dies.

Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon dies of an unknown disease some months after he and British archaeologist Howard Carter have discov

Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C

Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, is born in Lichtenburg, Tran

Combat-General Georges-Henri Anne Marie Victor Compte de Villebois-Mareuil, a former commander in the French Foreign Legion, ma

Start of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens.

The Phoenix of France runs aground at Noetzie, near Knysna.

Britain concludes Treaty of Pretoria with Boers, recognising independence of the ZAR. The Transvaal Triumvirate and a British R

Jan van Riebeeck urged by the Vryburgers (Free Burghers), starts peace negotiations with the Kaapmans (Khoi-Khoi group).

Table Mountain is sighted at 2.30 p.m. by a crewmember of the Drommedaris, the ship on which Jan van Riebeeck and his company w

The newly formed DA-IFP &amp;quot;coalition of change&amp;quot; leaders of the parties, Tony Leon and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, hold their

India and South Africa make a series of important agreements around a ‘strategic partnership’ pact.

Eugene Terre ‘Blanche, leader of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging is condemned to death seven times because he and two follower

ANC insurgents launch a rifle, rocket and grenade attack on Booysens Police Station, Johannesburg. Pamphlets are scattered dema

Barend Hendrik Janse van Rensburg (Ben) (80), founder of the War Museum in Bloemfontein, dies.

Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) severs ties with Cuba when they are implicated in the rebellion in Shaba (was the Kata

Josephine Ethel (Josie) Wood, teacher and founder of the South African Library for the Blind, dies in Grahamstown.

UN troops defending an airfield in Katanga province, Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo), are attacked by ‘mobs’.

Sultan Sayyidi Muhammad V ibn Yusuf arrives in northern Morocco in the hope of ending Spanish rule.

Maxwell Mamase, MEC for Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, is born in Peddie, Eastern Cape

The newly formed DA-IFP "coalition of change" leaders of the parties, Tony Leon and Mangosuthu Buthelezi, hold their