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Jeremy and Joan Brickhill of the ANC are seriously injured in a motor bomb attack in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz becomes first Arabic-language writer to win Nobel Prize for literature.
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Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz becomes first Arabic-language writer to win Nobel Prize for literature.
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South Africa is blamed for a massive bomb blast in Harare in which several people are injured. South Africa denies responsibili
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South Africa is blamed for a massive bomb blast in Harare in which several people are injured. South Africa denies responsibili
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The PFP meets the ANC in Lusaka and calls for the release of Nelson Mandela.
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Voters in Egypt participate in a referendum to elect vice president Hosni Mubarak as the new president, one week after the assa
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Lectures commence in the new building of the Goudstadse Onderwyskollege.
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Lectures commence in the new building of the Goudstadse Onderwyskollege.
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SA signs treaty with Australia on postal parcels.
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British premier Harold Wilson and Rhodesian leader Ian Smith, meeting aboard HMS Fearless off Gibraltar, fail after five days o
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The General Laws Amendment Bill of 1966 is published. The bill entitles police officers to detain up to fourteen days anyone su
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William Rowntree is nominated as the new American ambassador to South Africa to replace J.C. Salterwaite, due to leave South Af
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SA signs agreement with Portugal (for Angola and Mozambique) with regard to rivers of mutual interest and the Kunene River Sche
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Helen Joseph is the first person to be put under house arrest under the Sabotage Act.
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U.S.S.R. vetoes U.N. approval of the Anglo-French proposal for control of the Suez Canal.
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Gana Makabeni, trade union leader and member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the
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Egypt reaches agreement with Sudan on Nile waters.
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Natal Indian Congress holds a mass meeting in Durban to launch a new phase of Passive Resistance Campaign in view of the stalem
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Dalene Matthee, laurelled Afrikaans writer, is born in Riversdal, CP. Her best-known book, Kringe in ‘n bos (Circles in a for
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C.K. Thambi Naidoo, representing Gandhi at a public meeting in Newcastle, mobilises the Indians living there to start the Satya
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Germany declares South West Africa a German protectorate, though the important port of Walvis Bay remained a British possession
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Transvaal declares independence from Britain.
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Josias Philip Hoffman, first state president of the Orange Free State, dies.
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The first diamond is found in South Africa. The precious stone is picked up by Jacobs’s children on the farm De Kalk near Hopet
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The Enterprise becomes the first English steamship to enter Table Bay.
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The Cape Colony extends its boundaries to the Keiskamma River.
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Floods hit Stellenbosch, causing extensive damage.
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The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCL) states crime has gone far enough, and the government has to pull up its soc
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