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Life magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk

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Life magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk

South African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly

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South African President Charles Roberts Swart opens the first session of the Transkei Legislative Assembly

Miss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand

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Miss Namibia, Michelle Mclean, model and masseuse, is crowned Miss Universe in Bangkok, Thailand

Florence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies

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Florence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies

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Emperor Haile Selassie reclaims his Ethiopian throne

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Londoners celebrate ten years of democracy with the first South African International film Festival (1-9 May), starting with ‘T

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A May Day rally is addressed by President Mandela at Umlazi. He is escorted from the stadium in an armoured car when shots are

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International Workers’ Day commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world. Although May Day has been

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SA signs an agreement with Zambia on the establishment of representative offices.

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MK member Jackie Matjili is shot dead in Thokoza.

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Cosatu describes the privatisation of public corporations as ‘theft’ in its May Day message to members.

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Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand and a leading anti-apartheid activist, is shot

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KwaNdebele: Police Act No 11 commences.

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The first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. Its recommendations include registration of Black t

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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development announces that the government has decided on far-reaching concessions for

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The Tswana Legislative Assembly comes into being.

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In response to the Yemen dispute, Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser threatens to invade Saudi Arabia.

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Prime Minister Vorster announces that Robert Sobukwe has been taken to Robben Island, where he will be detained indefinitely in

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Tanganyika gains full internal self-government from Britain (technically under a League of Nations Trustee mandate), prior to b

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The Trust Bank of Africa Limited is established in Cape Town.

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Radhakrishna Roy Padayachie, Deputy Minister of Communications of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.

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Eighteen Blacks are killed (sixteen shot by police and two suffocated in a burning cinema) and more than thirty injured in a da

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On proposal of Sir Pierre van Ryneveld a special service battalion is instituted in Pretoria to provide work for young men afte

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Edward, Prince of Wales, arrives in Cape Town on a visit to South Africa.

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American ex-president Theodore Roosevelt kills three lions whilst on safari in British East Africa (now Kenya).

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France declares its support for British interests in the Congo rather than those of Belgium.

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Gen. Mark Wayne Clark, commander of the 5th American Army in North Africa and Italy in World War 2, is born.