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The Southern African Black Alliance (SABA) and the PFP declare their total opposition to the pending constitutional changes inv
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The Status of Ciskei Bill is signed by the State President, having been opposed at all stages by the opposition parties. It con
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A total of 128 members of the United States Congress, from both the Democratic and Republican parties, send a written request t
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Jacques Henry Kallis, SA cricket player, is born.
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Elections start in Gazankulu.
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SA signs treaty with Spain for the prevention of double taxation on income derived from the operation of ships or aircraft in i
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Anwar Sadat succeeds Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser (who died on 28 September of a heart attack) as president of Egypt. Date is giv
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The United Party declares that it will oppose the National Party’s policy and will moot a certain measure of self-government fo
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South Africa fails to meet an ultimatum by the International Olympic Committee to comply with its demand to renounce racial dis
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South Africa signs treaty with Southern Rhodesia on air transport
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Albert Luthuli is elected president-general of the ANC.
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Hendrik Januarie, SA poet, is born.
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Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J
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Jan C. de Waal (92), farmer who endeavoured to increase sheep numbers in the Orange Free State after the Anglo-Boer War and who
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Gert van den Bergh, SA actor and first free-lance radio broadcaster who was honoured by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetens
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T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) arrives in Cairo with a British fact-finding mission whose purpose is to recommend ways of
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Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, generally known as "Onze Jan", dies in London. One of his various achievements was assisting in
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Anglo-Boer War: Republican forces under Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog attack Jagersfontein and release all prisoners in the gaol before t
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer Gen. P.A. Cronje shells Mafeking, causing only one casualty. After the bombardment, Silas Molemo, a spok
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The two Voortrekker states, one east of the Drakensberg and one west, unite to form the Republic of Natalia. Practical diffic
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The Battle of Vechtkop (Vegkop), near present day Heilbron, FS, between the Voortrekkers and the Ndebele takes place. Kalipi at
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Cornelis Freek Bezuidenhout, accompanied by his son and a visitor, Jacob Erasmus, is shot dead by Khoi soldiers under a White l
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Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third legitimate son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, is born in Griqualand West.
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Ex-burgher councillor Jacobus van Reenen, ex-burgher Lieutenant Barend Jacob Artoys and burghers Nicolaas Godfried Heyns and Ti
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World Food Day.
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MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is cleared in Zimbabwe by the High Court of charges of plotting to kill Mugabe.
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The Afrikaans Language and Culture Association, ATKV, gives former president F.W. de Klerk its highest award for having the cou
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The first president of Mauritania, Moktar Ould Daddah, dies in Paris. Some other sources give date as 14 October.
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The proposal to allow presidential candidates to run for a third term is formally withdrawn in Malawi.
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