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… Cradock becomes a municipality. The settlement started in 1813 as a frontier outpost and was proclaimed a township in 1814. …

… Latakgomo, journalist and editor of several newspapers in the past, is born in Pretoria. …

… The ANC in exile in Lusaka calls on its supporters to take the struggle into …

… Nelson Mandela’s only surviving son Makgatho (54) dies in the Linksfield hospital in Johannesburg. President M …

… In the Central African Republic, soldiers fire on foreign peacekeepers in the third major rebellion since May. …

… Stephanus Schoeman (80), commandant-general in the Soutpansberg area and later of the ZAR, dies in Pretoria. …

… An ANC spokesman in Lusaka calls for increased participation by White sympathisers in the Black emancipation struggle. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … ANC regional executive committee member, is found dead in his car in Madadeni, Natal. …

… Several hundred thousand people demonstrate in Beijing against United States involvement in the Congo, calling it aggression. …

… political analyst and journalist, dies of lung cancer in the Milpark Clinic in Johannesburg. …

… Denis Warburton Begbie, SA cricket player in five tests (1947-1950), is born in Middelburg, Eastern Transvaal. …

… In what the committee’s chairperson, Patrick Chauke, describes as yet another "historic moment in the country’s democracy& …

… General Joseph-Désiré Mobutu ousts President Kasavubu in his second military coup in the Congo (Now Zaire). …

… Petrus van der Spuy, the first clergyman to be born in SA, is born in Cape Town. …

… reports that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in Namibia have been withdrawn in November. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … Msani Chamane (13) and Sibongiseni Makhatini are killed in their homes in Greytown, Natal. …

… The British attack larger Italian forces in Libya by surprise, capturing 40 000 prisoners in three days. …

… James Manuel Blanckenberg, SA cricket player in eighteen tests (1913-1924), is born in Claremont, Cape Town. …

… James Chapman, photographer and pioneer explorer in many regions of the Zambezi, is born in Cape Town. …

… Büttner, Rhenish missionary, philologist and negotiator in German South West Africa, is born in Königsberg, …

… Twenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death in Kenya for their part in the Lari massacre. …

… Steve Biko, Black activist who died in detention, is born in Ginsberg Location, near King William’s Town. …

… Frederick Timpson l’Ons (85), SA painter of early life in the Eastern Province, dies in Grahamstown. …

… Five people die in a panga fight in Katlehong, thought to be related to the ongoing taxi …

… Eight Whites are killed in Brakpan in fights between government forces and revolutionaries …

… Dr Alexander Logie du Toit (69), surveyor of large areas in the Karoo, dies in Cape Town. …

… Four people are shot dead in Nkowankowa after a mass meeting of 30 000 people in a local stadium. …

… Pieter Voltelyn Graham van der Byl, politician and soldier in WW1, is born in Caledon, Western Cape. …

… Nigerian planes bomb and strafe a crowded market in a village in rebellious Biafra, killing more than 200 people. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 265. … Eleven people are killed in Nancefield, PWV, in a clash between Nancefield hostel and Power Park squatter …