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The harbour at Richards Bay is inaugurated.

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The names of the four ‘homelands’ are changed: from Basotho ha Borwa (Southern Sotho) to Basotho-Qwaqwa; from Tswanaland to Bop

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Metrication takes effect in the SA Railways and Harbours administration.

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Voortrekkerpers Bpk and Afrikaanse Pers merge to form Perskor (Perskorporasie van Suid-Afrika).

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JARIC, voted best support unit of the SA Air Force 2003, is established as a section of the Central Phototechnical Establishmen

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An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the

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John Harris, who was found guilty of planting a bomb in the Johannesburg station, is executed.

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Robben Island is turned into a prison.

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French detonate their second nuclear bomb in the Sahara.

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Ayanda Bam, executive chair of Kuyasa Mining, the first Black owned mining house in SA, is born in King Williams’ Town, Transke

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The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t

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The African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress is banned in South Africa.

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The Rondalia Touring Club, a motoring organisation, is founded.

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The Minister of Native Affairs is empowered to banish persons without right of trial or appeal.

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The State assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and

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Sir John Kotze, Chief Justice of the South African Republic and later Attorney-General of Rhodesia, dies in Cape Town at the ag

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Zaudito, first reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies.

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The Schlesinger Organisation, with government approval, forms the African Broadcasting Corporation in Johannesburg, in which th

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The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote

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The South African Naval Service is founded. With the ships the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a

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Catharina Felicia van Rees, musician who published the first collection of SA folk songs, dies in Gelderland, the Netherlands.

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The Union Weather Service is established in Pretoria under the department of irrigation. C.M. Stewart becomes chief meteorologi

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Naboth Monyadioe Moreleba Mokgatle, trade unionist, political activist and writer, is born in Saron, Phokeng, Rustenburg. He le

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Max Gordon, industrial chemist and trade unionist, is born in Cape Town.

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At a public meeting in Rustenburg, Pres. Kruger reaffirms his intention to revise the Franchise Act of the ZAR and to make cert

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The British ship Fairholine, en route from Calcutta to New York, runs ashore to the east of Buffels Bay, Cape south coast.

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N.C. Gey van Pittius founds the Republic of Goshen on land assigned to them by Machette of Kunwana, after Boer volunteers assis

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The Midlands Ladies’ Seminary, forerunner of the College of Education, is founded in Graaff-Reinet.

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Edgar Wallace, SA author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.

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The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw

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The harbour at Richards Bay is inaugurated.

The names of the four ‘homelands’ are changed: from Basotho ha Borwa (Southern Sotho) to Basotho-Qwaqwa; from Tswanaland to Bop

Metrication takes effect in the SA Railways and Harbours administration.

Voortrekkerpers Bpk and Afrikaanse Pers merge to form Perskor (Perskorporasie van Suid-Afrika).

JARIC, voted best support unit of the SA Air Force 2003, is established as a section of the Central Phototechnical Establishmen

An official list is published of forty-four people who have left South Africa and whose writings will not be allowed under the

John Harris, who was found guilty of planting a bomb in the Johannesburg station, is executed.

Robben Island is turned into a prison.

French detonate their second nuclear bomb in the Sahara.

Ayanda Bam, executive chair of Kuyasa Mining, the first Black owned mining house in SA, is born in King Williams’ Town, Transke

The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t

The African National Congress and the Pan-Africanist Congress is banned in South Africa.

The Rondalia Touring Club, a motoring organisation, is founded.

The Minister of Native Affairs is empowered to banish persons without right of trial or appeal.

The State assumes control of Bantu schools. ANC launches a massive boycott of Bantu Education and schools by both teachers and

Sir John Kotze, Chief Justice of the South African Republic and later Attorney-General of Rhodesia, dies in Cape Town at the ag

Zaudito, first reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, dies.

The Schlesinger Organisation, with government approval, forms the African Broadcasting Corporation in Johannesburg, in which th

The Crown takes over Northern Rhodesia from the British South Africa Company and the territory is turned into an Imperial prote

The South African Naval Service is founded. With the ships the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a

Catharina Felicia van Rees, musician who published the first collection of SA folk songs, dies in Gelderland, the Netherlands.

The Union Weather Service is established in Pretoria under the department of irrigation. C.M. Stewart becomes chief meteorologi

Naboth Monyadioe Moreleba Mokgatle, trade unionist, political activist and writer, is born in Saron, Phokeng, Rustenburg. He le

Max Gordon, industrial chemist and trade unionist, is born in Cape Town.

At a public meeting in Rustenburg, Pres. Kruger reaffirms his intention to revise the Franchise Act of the ZAR and to make cert

The British ship Fairholine, en route from Calcutta to New York, runs ashore to the east of Buffels Bay, Cape south coast.

N.C. Gey van Pittius founds the Republic of Goshen on land assigned to them by Machette of Kunwana, after Boer volunteers assis

The Midlands Ladies’ Seminary, forerunner of the College of Education, is founded in Graaff-Reinet.

Edgar Wallace, SA author and newspaper editor, is born in Greenwich, England.

The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw