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… A foreign ministry statement issued in Pretoria, blames ‘developments in Angola’ for the indefinite postponement of President M …

… Ulrich Gerhard Lauts, founder of the pro-Boer association in the Netherlands, is born in Amsterdam. …

… Durant Sihlali, SA artist, is born in Germiston.  He exhibited in South Africa and Western Europe. …

… The SACP is formally launched in Natal at a rally held at Currie’s Fountain Stadium in Durban. …

… Joseph Welwitsch, discoverer of the welwitschia plant in the Namib, is born in Austria. …

… Isaac Daniël Buys, SA cricket player in one test, is born in Somerset East, eastern Cape. …

… Rolland Beaumont, SA cricket player in five test matches (1912-1914), is born in Newcastle, Natal. …

… Karl Gottlieb Mauch, the first man to discover gold in SA, is born in Stetten, Wurtemberg. …

… Botha (84), veteran actress and one of the main characters in Egoli, dies in Johannesburg. …

… Geoffrey Walter Ashton Chubb, SA cricket player in five test matches, is born in East London. …

… The Draft South Africa Act is signed in by a national convention in Bloemfontein, after fierce debate.  …

… Geoffrey Walter Ashton Chubb, SA cricket player in five test matches, is born in East London. …

… Jan Carel Juta (52), father of the publishing industry in SA, is born in Chiswick, London. …

… Sultan Sayyidi Muhammad V ibn Yusuf arrives in northern Morocco in the hope of ending Spanish rule. …

… approval, forms the African Broadcasting Corporation in Johannesburg, in which th …

… Xenophon Constantine Balaskas (83), SA cricket player in nine test matches (1930-1939), dies in Sandton. …

… William Wilson founds Alcoholics Anonymous in Ohio, USA. Hundreds of these groups are operating in SA. …

… French and Algerian rebel delegations in Evian-les-Baine, France, sign ceasefire agreement in Algerian War. …

… The British government publishes in Trade and Industry, guidelines for British companies operating in South Africa. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … Fifteen mourners are killed in a gun attack on a funeral vigil, allegedly in collusion with the SAP. …

… Petrus de Wet, chief justice of Transvaal and acting judge in Ceylon, dies in England. …

… Death in Black and White: Suicide, Statistics, and Race in Natal, 1880-1916 by Julie Parle …

… Party and African National Congress stalwart passed away in Moscow, Russia where he was hospitalised after a long illness he suffered since 1968. In 1931 Kotane became active member of the South African … political leaders of the time Kotane was harassed by the Apartheid government agencies and repressive legislations. He …

… violated the sovereignty of its neighbouring countries in order to prop up the Apartheid system, resulted in strong condemnation by … of its neighboring countries in order to prop up the Apartheid system. In January 1981, South African forces … SANDF," SA Defence Force involvement in the internal security situation in the Republic of South …

… close to the home that he had been confined to by the Apartheid regime in Groutville, (then) Stanger, KwaZulu-Natal. Chief Luthuli … and defiance brought him into direct conflict with the apartheid government. He was banned from public gatherings … Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville …

… the Wobblies) was the main influence on the radical left in South Africa in the early twentieth century. But who were the South … Andrew Dunbar was general-secretary of the IWW in Johannesburg, established in June 1910. A hefty Scots … Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 …

… a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in April-May 1706 in a dungeon in the Castle in Cape Town, which he shared with Ari van … Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa …

… In October 1981 Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives bombed Sibasa Police Station in independent Vendaland. Several policemen were killed in the attack. The Homeland was seized by fear and panic, … Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police …

… Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was … Ferguson to allege that a well-known South African sports administrator and ex-politician had reportedly raped … Khulumani Centre, an organisation that assists victims of apartheid-era violence. For Seidman, the lack of support from …

… Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase By 1957 any relative lull in the mass struggle in South Africa had completely evaporated. This reflected … Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase …