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Sisulu is arrested on a charge that he does not own a reference book. He is confined to his house for five years.
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De Beers Mining Company announces the manufacture of synthetic industrial diamonds.
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The General Assembly of the United Nations include item on apartheid in the agenda by a vote of 45 to 6, with 8 abstentions.
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Sibusiso Joel Ndebele, premier of KwaZulu-Natal since 22 April 2004, is born at Shiyane, in KwaZulu-Natal.
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Thirty-one SA pilots participates in the air-lift to provide food and fuel to West Berlin. The operation continued for seven mo
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Graca Machel, widow of Samora Machel and third wife of former president Nelson Mandela, is born in Gaza, Mozambique. Her year
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Fietas, Johannesburg: The Johannesburg City Council meets and approves a detailed report regarding the ‘Western Areas Scheme’.
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Albert Einstein arrives in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
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Prime Minister Louis Botha invites President M.T. Steyn to a meeting aimed at establishing a new political party in the Union o
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Belgium annexes the Congo Free State. Date is given as 18 October by brainyhistory.com.
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Johann Gotfried Mocke (83), field-cornet and Voortrekker commandant, dies on Blesboklaagte farm, near Ohrigstad, eastern Transv
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The Star newspaper makes its first appearance in Johannesburg as The Eastern Star. It was founded in Grahamstown under that tit
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Karen Blixen, Danish author of Out of Africa who wrote under the name Isak Dinesen, is born.
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Petrus Jacobus (Pietie) le Roux, leader of the “Stellenbosch-Boerorkes”, is born in Moorreesburg, Cape Colony.
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William Waldegrave Palmer Selbourne, British high commissioner in SA after Lord Milner, and governor of the Transvaal and Orang
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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow
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The Rev. Pierre Simond delivers the first sermon in French in the Cape when he addresses Huguenot refugees at Stellenbosch.
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International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
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World Trauma Day.
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The Star reports that twenty-two charges of rape were laid against police officers between April 2005 and March this year, the
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The suspension of several judges in Kenya during corruption investigations creates chaos in the courts.
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The Medical Research Council releases a report on AIDS-related mortality in adults.
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Violent demonstrations break out (16-19 October) in Harare suburbs after bread prices are raised by 30%.
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Three people drown when the ski-boat Saxen goes down near Gordon’s Bay, Cape.
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James A. Michener (90), American author of epic historical fiction i.a. The Covenant, dealing with the Voortrekkers, dies.
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Ten people die in Khayelitsha when gunmen open fire on taxi association members in a revival of Western Cape taxi hostilities.
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The Goldstone Commission reports the finding of a secret operational centre run by Military Intelligence and seizes plans to de
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The Conservative Party threatens to stage a tax revolt and television license boycott in an attempt to force the government to
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The African National Congress agrees to “use its good offices” to facilitate the readmission of South African rugby i
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