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The ‘Sharpeville Six’ win a one-day stay of execution in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The stay is granted a day before

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A Defence Force spokesman confirms in Cape Town that South Africa is to stop supplying the United States and Britain with intel

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It is reported that during February 1979, Dr. Eschel Rhoodie has claimed in interviews in Quito, Ecador, that he was the initia

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Angolan troops invading Zaire take important copper-mining centre of Kolwezi.

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Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&eacut

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President Fouché pays a state visit to Malawi (17-24 March) and appeals for peaceful co-existence and cooperation betwee

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The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (now a campus of the North West University) is recognised as a univ

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Bakili Muluzi, president of Malawi, is born.

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The South African Industrial Federation (SAIF) calls off the Miners’ strike and the workers stream to work.

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Herero Revolt: In the German Reichstag (Parliament), August Bebel representing the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) condemn

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger and Pres. Steyn appoint Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil as general in Kroonstad during the So

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Anglo-Boer War 2: A Great combined Republican Council of War is held at Kroonstad, attended by both presidents and commanders o

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Pondo king Sigcau, son of Umquikela, agrees to become a British subject, thereby placing Pondoland under the Crown.

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Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, is born in Glücksberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, wh

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The first railway line in Transvaal, between Johannesburg and Boksburg, is opened.

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George William Stow (60), who discovered coal at Vereeniging, dies in Vereeniging.

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Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg, editor of De Volksstem and founding member of the Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (Academy for Sci

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The first British Settlers arrive in Table Bay on the Nautilus and the Chapman.

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Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, is born in Newton Stewart, Ireland

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Rijkloff van Goens arrives in Table Bay to report on conditions at the Cape to the Directors of the Dutch East Indies and to fo

Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy

Biko, Black Consciousness, and ‘the System’ eZinyoka: Oral History and Black Consciousness in Practice in a Rural Ciskei Village by Leslie Hadfield, 25 May 2010, South Africa

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Zimbabweans are going to the polls in landmark elections that President Robert Mugabe hopes will tighten his ruling party’s 25-

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Simon Mann, arrested in Zimbabwe, writes a letter pleading with associates, including Sir Mark Thatcher, to get him out of pris

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Blacks comprise 73,9 % and Whites 26,1 % of the full-time component of the Department of Defence. The department has been reduc

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The North Sea Jazz Festival (31 March – 1 April) starts in Cape Town. It is the first time a jazz festival on four simultaneo

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Zairian rebels order 20 000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the a

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The ‘Sharpeville Six’ win a one-day stay of execution in the Pretoria Supreme Court. The stay is granted a day before

A Defence Force spokesman confirms in Cape Town that South Africa is to stop supplying the United States and Britain with intel

It is reported that during February 1979, Dr. Eschel Rhoodie has claimed in interviews in Quito, Ecador, that he was the initia

Angolan troops invading Zaire take important copper-mining centre of Kolwezi.

Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&amp;eacut

President Fouché pays a state visit to Malawi (17-24 March) and appeals for peaceful co-existence and cooperation betwee

Steve Atherton, Natal rugby player, is born.

Andrew Hudson, South African cricket player, is born.

African National Congress is banned in several rural districts.

The Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (now a campus of the North West University) is recognised as a univ

Bakili Muluzi, president of Malawi, is born.

The South African Industrial Federation (SAIF) calls off the Miners’ strike and the workers stream to work.

Herero Revolt: In the German Reichstag (Parliament), August Bebel representing the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) condemn

Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Kruger and Pres. Steyn appoint Count Georges de Villebois-Mareuil as general in Kroonstad during the So

Anglo-Boer War 2: A Great combined Republican Council of War is held at Kroonstad, attended by both presidents and commanders o

Pondo king Sigcau, son of Umquikela, agrees to become a British subject, thereby placing Pondoland under the Crown.

Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, is born in Glücksberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, wh

The first railway line in Transvaal, between Johannesburg and Boksburg, is opened.

George William Stow (60), who discovered coal at Vereeniging, dies in Vereeniging.

Frans Vredenrijk Engelenburg, editor of De Volksstem and founding member of the Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (Academy for Sci

The first British Settlers arrive in Table Bay on the Nautilus and the Chapman.

Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, is born in Newton Stewart, Ireland

Rijkloff van Goens arrives in Table Bay to report on conditions at the Cape to the Directors of the Dutch East Indies and to fo

Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy

Biko, Black Consciousness, and ‘the System’ eZinyoka: Oral History and Black Consciousness in Practice in a Rural Ciskei Village by Leslie Hadfield, 25 May 2010, South Africa

Zimbabweans are going to the polls in landmark elections that President Robert Mugabe hopes will tighten his ruling party’s 25-

Simon Mann, arrested in Zimbabwe, writes a letter pleading with associates, including Sir Mark Thatcher, to get him out of pris

Blacks comprise 73,9 % and Whites 26,1 % of the full-time component of the Department of Defence. The department has been reduc

The North Sea Jazz Festival (31 March – 1 April) starts in Cape Town. It is the first time a jazz festival on four simultaneo

Zairian rebels order 20 000 Rwandan refugees camped on the outskirts of Kisangani to move south, and relief workers begin the a

Two days of meetings start in Cape Town between Prime Ministers Vorster and Ian Smith, with discussions focusing on the d&eacut