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Chief Lennox Sebe, Chief Minister of the Ciskei, accepts independence in principle, and wins endorsement for his stand at a ral
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US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance travels to South Africa to promote transition to black rule in Namibia.
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Sir de Villiers Graaff announces his retirement from politics, having been leader of the opposition from 1956 until the dissolu
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The elected leaders in the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council reject the government’s emergency mini-budget and demand th
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Winnie Mandela ends thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack on the country’s Terrorism Act.
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The United Nations General Assembly rejects South Africa’s credentials. The Assembly President rules, however, that the measure
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The Minister of Labour exercises his power under the Bantu Labour Relations Regulation Bill
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The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces at the National Party Congress incidences on the border of Zambia and the Caprivi S
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Anwar Sadat is nominated to succeed Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of Egypt. Date is given as 16 October by two other sources.
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SA signs multilateral Convention on the Conflict of Laws Relating to the Form of Testamentary Dispositions.
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The South African Military History Society is formed.
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A train accident at Effingham in Natal claims the lives of 88 people.
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Richard Granville Baloyi, politician, businessman and community leader born c. 1897, dies in Alexandra.
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In a referendum limited to White voters only, 52 percent of South African voters favour the establishment of a Republic.
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Mabhuza Simeon Gininda, educationist, theologian and ANC member of parliament, Government of National Unity (1994-), is born in
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John Ndevasia Muafangejo, SA artist and teacher, is born in Etunda lo Nghadi, Angola. He moved to South West Africa in 1956
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Essop Jassat, medical practitioner and political community worker, is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg. During the apartheid era
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Thomas Campbell (42), SA cricket player in five test matches, dies in Natal.
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Glynis Johns, South African actress (Mary Poppins, The Ref, A Little Night Music, The Sundowners, Coming of Age, Glynis), is bo
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Italian troops occupy Libya in the war with Turkey.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Western Australia offers military assistance to Britain.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A crowd of stranded Black mineworkers block part of Marshall Street, but at night time the police persuade th
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After the proclamation of the public gold diggings at Randfontein the previous day, Johann Rissik, ZAR official, sends a plan f
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Prof. Johannes Jacobus Smith, professor in Afrikaans at the University of Stellenbosch, is born in Tulbach, western Cape.
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Dr Willem Jacobus Viljoen, teacher and linguist, is born in Richmond, Cape Colony.
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John Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town.
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Francis William Reitz, president of the Orange Free State, is born in Swellendam, Cape Colony.
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Cornelis F. Bezuidenhout, frontier farmer, is summoned to appear in court in Graaff-Reinet on charges laid by a certain Booi. H
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A 603-carat diamond, the biggest found in thirteen years and the 15th largest in the world, goes on sale in Antwerp, the Nether
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