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President Kaunda of Zambia meets the Prime Minister, P.W. Botha on the Botswana border to discuss the political situation.

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The cargo ship Ashdod is the first Israeli ship to pass through the Suez Canal for over 50 years.

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The cargo ship Ashdod is the first Israeli ship to pass through the Suez Canal for over 50 years.

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The Afrikaans as a medium for education policy was deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the

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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) decides at its seventh Congress in Geneva to suspend South Africa from membership u

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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) decides at its seventh Congress in Geneva to suspend South Africa from membership u

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Johanna Suzanna Holtzhausen (88), coloratura and member of the Music Committee of the FAK (Federation of Afrikaans Cultural Org

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The bill establishing five universities for Blacks, releasing their association with the University of South Africa comes into

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Marius Phillip Olivier Burgers (53), dies of a heart attack while recording a tribute to the late Pieter de Waal, SA broadcaste

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Adv. C.R. Swart resigns as governor-general of SA to become the first state president of SA on 31 May 1961.

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The SA rugby team beats Scotland in Port Elizabeth 18-10 in the only test match of the series.

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Mbhazima Samuel Shilowa, premier of Gauteng since 15 June 1999, is born in Olifantshoek, a village in the Northern Province.

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Egypt opens the Suez Canal again after Pres. Nasser has nationalised it the previous year.

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As part of the ten-year progress (begun in 1950) to independence under an Italian administered UN trusteeship, the first electe

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Victor Herman Booysen, Group Executive of Human Resource Services, Telkom, is born.

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The Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is lost to the Italians.

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Josiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as African National Congress president. Luthuli commented later: with his as

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Dot Serfontein, SA author and mother of poet Antjie Krog, is born.

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Daniël Jacobus Erasmus (83), former acting state president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Nov. 1871-July 1972), dies in B

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St. John Brodrick, the war secretary, informs the British House of Commons that the campaign in Somaliland is to be abandoned a

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Anglo-Boer War 2: An official report states that British columns have completely or partially destroyed 158 farms and an unknow

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR’s fourth and last Creusot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited before falling into British hands, only 200 metres

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Cecil John Rhodes asks for a charter for the British South Africa Company.

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France invades Tunisia from Algeria on a pretext, and later establishes a protectorate.

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Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist, commissioner-general at the Cape after whom the town Uitenhage was named, is born in the Nethe

South African Defence Force (SADF) attacks a Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, Angola

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South African Defence Force (SADF) attacks a Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, Angola

Justice Sfiso Ka-Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban

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Justice Sfiso Ka-Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban

Talks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed

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Talks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed

Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home

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Dr David Webster, a social anthropologist at Wits University and political activist, is shot dead outside his home

Mbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born

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Mbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born