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International Student Conference in Solidarity with the Struggle of the Students of Southern Africa, London, starts.
EventKaNgwane is proclaimed a self-governing territory.
KaNgwane is among the 10 homelands that were created to rid South Africa of its Black citizens; this was carried out in terms of the Bantustan policy. The…
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Jacobus Pieter Verster, chief of the South African Air Force (1967-1975), dies in Pretoria.
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The US vetoes a UN Security Council resolution criticising South Africa for raids in Angola.
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P.W. Botha becomes the first South African Prime Minister to visit Soweto. His visit includes talks with the Soweto Community C
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Jomo Kenyatta, first president of Kenya, is buried in Nairobi.
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The administration of Walvis Bay is again handed to the Cape Province.
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Ian Smith, espousing racial segregation, wins the Rhodesian general election with 80 percent of the overwhelmingly White electo
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Thomas Patrick Murray, trade unionist, dies in Johannesburg.
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The state of emergency is lifted. 10,500 opponents of the Government are still being detained.
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A UN brokered cease-fire for the Gaza border dispute with Israel is accepted by Egypt.
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World War 2: The British army under General Bernard Law Montgomery defeats Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Bat
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Andries Dreyer, archivist of the Dutch Reformed Church and collector of Africana, dies.
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Essias Renier Grobler (76), administrator of the Orange Free State, dies in Bloemfontein.
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Development Trust and Land Act No 18 commences.
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Prof. S.F. N. Gie becomes secretary of education of the Union of SA.
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Ruanda-Urundi is made a Belgian protectorate.
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General Jan Christiaan Smuts becomes Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa after the death of General Louis Botha on 27 A
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During a public meeting in Malmesbury, CP, Dr D.F. Malan pleads for the independence of the Union of South Africa.
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In one of the worst winter storms ever, eighteen ships are wrecked in Algoa Bay, Port Elizabeth, and fifty-eight lives are lost
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Officially recorded camp population for White camps is 105 347 and the camp fatalities for August stand at
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant Botha demotes Assistant Commandant-General Tobias Smuts because of his actions at Bremersdorp.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant Danie Theron captures a train and 30 soldiers at Klip Station, near the present-day Soweto.
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William Ayliff, farmer and Cape politician, is born in Grahamstown.
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Mark Thatcher’s wife, Diane, and their two children leave SA for the United States.
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The number of people who discovered they were fraudulently married has risen to 779, according to the department of home affair
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Group chief executive Maanda Manyatshe announces that the SA Post Office has finally delivered an operating profit of R27 milli
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Negotiators at a meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva reach an agreement that would allow poor countries with seve
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Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi fires his vice president, George Saitoti, in an apparent effort to quash dissent in his ruling
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