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This day in history

Heine Toerien (71), Afrikaans broadcaster and author of entertainment programs, dies in Johannesburg.

This day in history

Heine Toerien (71), Afrikaans broadcaster and author of entertainment programs, dies in Johannesburg.

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The troopship Charlotte is wrecked in Algoa Bay and ninety-seven people drown.

The Individual, Auto/biography and History in South Africa by Ciraj Shahid Rassool

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Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker, medical doctor and prominent politician, is born in Durban.

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The ‘Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge’ (FAK) and the ‘Reddingsdaadbond’ withdraw from the ‘Afrikanereenheidskomitee’

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SA signs Custom Convention on the Temporary Importation of Professional and Scientific Equipment. (

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Pieter-Dirk Uys, SA satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town.

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Allister Mackintosh, pilot and ‘father’ of SA aviation is born in Schombeni, Swaziland.

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Anti-apartheid cleric, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, returns to South Africa and is deported.

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Anti-apartheid cleric, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, returns to South Africa and is deported.

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Allister Mackintosh, pilot and ‘father’ of SA aviation is born in Schombeni, Swaziland.

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Allister Mackintosh, pilot and ‘father’ of SA aviation is born in Schombeni, Swaziland.

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Digging for gold is officially authorised and fortune hunters flock to the Witwatersrand.

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Malose Kekana, financier and managing director of several companies, is born in Potgietersrus.

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The Rhodesian government bans the Zimbabwe African National Union and People’s Caretaker Council.

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Prof. Gerhard Johannes Beukes, Afrikaans expert in literature and dramatist, dies in Bloemfontein.

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Andries Dreyer, archivist of the Dutch Reformed Church and collector of Africana, dies.

The United Democratic Front and Township Revolt by Mark Swilling, 1984, South Africa

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The railway line between Cape Town and Eerste River (34 km) is completed.

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Sir Thomas Cullinan, digger and founder of the Premier diamond company, is born.

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Nkosinathi S. Shabangu, SOSCO and Senoane Secondary School pupil, is shot dead in Soweto.

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Mkhombiseni Buthelezi, IFP branch chair at Ekusayeniward, kwaNtewa, Natal, is shot and killed.

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Fighting erupts between UN troops and supporters of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo.

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Adv. C.R. Swart is appointed as the last Governor-General of South Africa.

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The South African rugby team scores 9 tries and beats France in Bordeaux 38-5.

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Eugène Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born in Pretoria.

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Aggrey Zola Klaaste, journalist and editor of the Sowetan, is born in Kimberley.

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Alfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo, Zulu choirmaster and composer, is born in Edendale, Pietermaritzburg.

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Heavy fighting erupts in Congo’s Katanga Province between United Nations and Katangan forces.