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SA signs agreement on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Republic of Chad.
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Burundi’s National Palace is stormed in a coup and Hutu president Melchior Ndadaye is killed just four months after gaining pow
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As a result of a crash on most of the world’s stock exchanges, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange overall index falls 328 points,
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The Commonwealth heads of government meeting end in the Bahamas with agreement to pressurise South Africa to dismantle aparthei
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Aliens and Travellers Control Amendment Act No 16, regulating the control of travellers during states of emergency, commences.
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Hissene Habré is sworn in as president of Chad.
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Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the
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Lebowa: Bantu Administration Amendment Act commences.
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The United States, the Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany and Belgium all start recalling their Ambassadors for consultat
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The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, says that 697 people are being held for security reasons: 123 under the Internal Securit
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It is reported that the government has banned twenty Black leaders of Black organisations, including the South African Students
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SA signs amendments to a multilateral treaty for the safety of life at sea, 1960.
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SA signs an agreement with Japan on the double taxation on income derived from the exploitation of ships or aircraft in interna
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An open letter is released by twelve leading clergymen from the Church of the Province of South Africa and other Protestant chu
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The Egyptian navy sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat off Sinai, killing forty people.
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Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, arrives in Pretoria by military aircraft, accompanied by his Minister of Law and Order, D.
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Edward Engenas Lekganyane (first known as Talane Reuben), leader of the Zion Christian Church the Star with large support in u
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Dmitri Tsafendas, accused of assassinating Dr. Verwoerd in the House of Assembly, is committed to detention in prison at the St
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The Canadian Minister for External Affairs announces that the government has imposed an embargo on further sales or shipments o
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The SA Minister of Justice states that legislation will be introduced during the next parliamentary session to indemnify the go
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Demonstration in Johannesburg (21-28 October), protesting the issuance of reference books to African women, starts.
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Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya when the British forces defeat the Mau-Mau.
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Dr Johannes (Hans) Merensky, geologist and discoverer of minerals in SA, dies in Westphalia, Germany.
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Morné du Plessis, SA rugby captain and son of Springbok Felix du Plessis, is born in Vereeniging.
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Moses Mayekiso, SA trade union leader, is born in the Transkei.
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Eight American and British officers land from a submarine on an Algerian beach to take measure of Vichy French to the Operation
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Ahmed Mahomed Cachalia, businessman, community leader and staunch opponent of the Asiatic Registration Act, born in poverty in
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With Pretoria occupied by the British, President Paul Kruger leaves Lourenço Marques (Maputo) for Marseille in the Dutch cruis
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Boer forces are defeated by the British at the Battle of Elandslaagte.
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