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Ernst Albert Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, lays the foundation stone of the dry dock of Table Bay, Cape Town.
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The Alabama, remembered in the Cape song ‘Daar kom die Alabama”, starts its voyages.
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The Prins Albert is wrecked in a storm near Plettenberg Bay. The cargo and all on board and are rescued.
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Jacobus Hoendervangers (religious name: Petrus), first resident priest in the OFS, is born in Steenbergen, North Brabant, the N
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The Reverend Daniel Lindley, missionary and minister to the Voortrekkers, is born in Ten Mile Creek, Pennsylvania.
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William Wilberforce, English philanthropist and champion for the abolishment of the slave trade, is born.
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Willem Adriaan (Wilhelm Adriaen) van der Stel, eldest son of Simon van der Stel who also became governor of the Cape, is born i
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The Simelela Rape Survivors Centre in Cape Town reports that almost half of the rapes in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township invol
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Start of South African Music Week.
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Former rebel group the Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD) suspends its participation in DR Congo’s transitional government.
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Nick du Toit and thirteen other suspected mercenaries go on trial in Equatorial Guinea on account of a failed coup attempt. A f
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 61-22 in the Tri-Nations championship in Pretoria.
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Zambian police shoot and wound former president Kenneth Kaunda at an opposition rally in Kabwe.
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The Motsuenyane Commission finds the ANC guilty of torture in its camps and calls for a public apology to people whose rights h
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Fana Nzimande, IFP supporting headman, his wife and four children between the ages of four to fifteen, are shot dead in their h
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Twenty-three people are injured in a bomb blast in a Wimpy Bar in East London.
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Caiphus Nyoka, student leader, is shot dead by police raiding his father’s home in Daveyton.
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National Security Amendment Act No 24, empowering the Minister of Justice to lift banning orders, commences.
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American President Carter announces at a press conference that South Africa has promised that no nuclear explosive test will be
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Arab guerrillas hijack an Egyptair plane shortly after takeoff from Cairo. The plane lands at Luxor where Egyptian commandos su
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A three-day strike starts in Soweto by between 150,000 and 200,000 workers.
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The new campus of the University of Port Elizabeth is inaugurated during sumptuous festivities.
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The Republican Party issues its election manifesto which does not oppose separate development but demands increased services to
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An alleged Soviet spy, Y.N. Loginov, who was arrested in 1967, is handed over to a non-communist country, West Germany.
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Irma Stern, SA painter, dies in Cape Town.
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The SA minister of posts and telegraphs complains that Radio Tanzania’s broadcasts from Dar-es-Salaam are interfering with broa
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International Seminar on Apartheid, Brasilia (23 Aug. – 4 Sept.) organised by the UN Division of Human Rights, the Special Co
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Frederick Edward Traugott Krause (91), judge president of the Orange Free State, dies.
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A 22-nation conference has just ended with a plan for international control of the Suez Canal and the Australian prime minister
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