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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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Dumisani Dludla, trade unionist and General Secretary of the United Workers’ Union of SA (UWUSA), is born in Melmoth, Natal.

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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

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Heavy fighting between rival factions sends civilians fleeing for shelter again as a ten-day-old truce collapses in Monrovia, L

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Mbulelo Botile, SA bantamweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world champion title.

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An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.

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SA signs agreement upgrading existing diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.

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SA signs joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations with Cameroon.

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First ever multi-racial elections held in South Africa ends, with the ANC receiving 62.6% of the votes and the National Party 2

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Alinah Smith (52), mother of an ANC Youth League Official, is killed when a hand grenade explodes in her house.

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Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori

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Following a spate of court actions involving alleged assaults, tortures in detention and other irregularities, the KwaNdebele L

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IBM shareholders in Washington vote against a resolution calling on the company to sever all commercial ties with South Africa.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dumisani Dludla, trade unionist and General Secretary of the United Workers’ Union of SA (UWUSA), is born in Melmoth, Natal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heavy fighting between rival factions sends civilians fleeing for shelter again as a ten-day-old truce collapses in Monrovia, L

Mbulelo Botile, SA bantamweight, wins the International Boxing Federation (IBF) world champion title.

An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.

SA signs agreement upgrading existing diplomatic relations with Zimbabwe.

SA signs joint communiqué establishing diplomatic relations with Cameroon.

First ever multi-racial elections held in South Africa ends, with the ANC receiving 62.6% of the votes and the National Party 2

Alinah Smith (52), mother of an ANC Youth League Official, is killed when a hand grenade explodes in her house.

Right-wingers break up a meeting, which was to be addressed by ANC deputy president Nelson Mandela at the University of Pretori

Following a spate of court actions involving alleged assaults, tortures in detention and other irregularities, the KwaNdebele L

IBM shareholders in Washington vote against a resolution calling on the company to sever all commercial ties with South Africa.