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Remarks by President Jacob Zuma to the 24th Congress of the Socialist International 31 August 2012
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English football clubs are prohibited to play in Europe because of the unruly behaviour of their supporters.
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The language committee of the FAK is instituted to advise the organisation on the assertion of Afrikaans.
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Several Lesotho army officers are arrested after attempting a counter-coup to reinstate Major-General Metsing Lekhanya, ousted
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Henri Edouard Prosper Breuli, archaeologist attached to the University of the Witwatersrand, is born in Mortain, France.
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe lashes out at international journalists and foreign governments, threatening to ban them fro
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The ANC foreign affairs department hosts an international solidarity conference in Johannesburg (19-21 February), to mobilise i
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The Ciskei administration declares 19 February a public holiday Heroes’ Day to commemorate the Ciskei Defence Force’s repulsion
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William Frederick Nkomo, medical doctor, educationist and community leader who tried to bring different races closer together a
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The United Nations Security Council Commission of Inquiry, investigating the abortive Seychelles coup, fails to reach a definit
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South African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment in Pretoria on communism charges.
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French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.
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Black Laws Amendment Act No 7, designed to speed up the planning for partial consolidation of homelands, commences.
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Diamonds to the worth of about £50,000 are stolen from the post office in Cape Town.
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The South African Industrial Federation (SAIF) calls off the Miners’ strike and the workers stream to work.
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Pondo king Sigcau, son of Umquikela, agrees to become a British subject, thereby placing Pondoland under the Crown.
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Martha Helena Cillié, teacher and headmistress whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts issues his first proclamation, offering amnesty to burghers, except for the leaders.
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State President F.W. de Klerk announces plans to bring covert operations by government agents under Cabinet control.
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The multilateral Convention on the International Maritime Organisation, to which SA is a party, is signed in Geneva.
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Magistrate L.A Coetzee rules that no one is to blame for the prison death of Lungile Tabalaza
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Sir William Cornwallis Harris, traveller, hunter and renowned artist, arrives in Algoa Bay to begin a hunting expedition
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The Chamber of XVII orders Jan Van Riebeeck to restrict the allocation of farms at the Cape
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The Volksraad of the ZAR approves of the construction of a railway line from Pretoria to Delagoa Bay
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South African freedom songs: a tribute to the patriot Vuyisile Mini by ANC branch in Dar Es Salaam
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Open the Jail Doors -- We Want to Enter: The Defiance Campaign Against Apartheid Laws By Stuart A. Kallen
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To the Workers of the Bantu Race by Dominic Tweedie (The International), 15 February 1918, South Africa
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Contributions of Nordic States to the oppressed people of Southern Africa and Frontline States by E.S. Reddy
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Declaration of the International Conference on Women and Children under Apartheid, Arusha, Tanzania, 7 to 10 May 1985
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