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The SA rugby team loses 3-26 in Cape Town against Australia.
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Official estimates put the death toll at 503 people killed during the ten previous days of violence.
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Elections to the House of Representatives among the Coloured community show overwhelming support for the Labour Party. Official
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Leaders of Port Elizabeth’s Black secondary school children, decide to end a four-month boycott of classes.
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Dr. Eschel Rhoodie is extradited from France and handed over to the South African authorities. He appears briefly in Pretoria’s
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Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta (born Kamau Johnstone on 20 October 1891) dies in office in Mombasa. He is succeeded by his vice
EventThe Pretoria Show is opened for all races
The Pretoria show is an annual event that began as an agricultural show and grew to include arts, entertainment, education and exhibitions over the years. The…
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World Conference for Action against Apartheid, Lagos, starts.
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South Africa signs treaty with Swaziland on the establishment of an office for the Swaziland government labour representative i
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Prime Minister Vorster officially opens the Orange-Fish River Tunnel, believed to be the world’s longest continuous tunnel (c.5
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Rhodesia is asked to withdraw from the 20th Olympic summer games because of its racial policies.
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A spokesman at the Police Headquarters in Pretoria states that the strength of the South African Police Reserve has reached 17,
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South African Airways (SAA) announces the re-routing of its services to Europe via Luanda (Angola), Brazzaville, the Cape Verde
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The SA rugby team beats the British Isles 25-9 in Newlands, Cape Town.
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The Springbok rugby team beats Australia 25-3 in Johannesburg.
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The Ossewa-Brandwag (OB), a republican-minded anti-war movement, disbands after thirteen years.
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Pieter Gert Wessel Grobler, director of the Land Bank, and Minister of Lands in the Hertzog cabinet, under whose auspices the S
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Ephraim Mojalefa (Kid) Ngatane, artist teacher, musician and boxer, is born in Maseru, Lesotho.
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Nelson Mukhuba, SA artist, is born in Venda. His art career started in 1958 and he used mainly marula and jacaranda for woo
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Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, political activist and co-founder of SWAPO, is born in Omangudu, near Ondangwa, Namibia. (Maharaj: Refl
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Pierre Stephanus de Wet, SA actor, producer and pioneer of Afrikaans sound films, is born in Pretoria. African Film Product
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The Duke of Cornwall, later King George V of Britain, lays the corner stone of the St George cathedral in Cape Town.
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Chief Commandant C.R. de Wet, back in the Free State, sets up his headquarters at Renosterpoort.
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T. Samuels scores SA’s first ever try and also the first points for SA in 5 rugby test matches against Britain.
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The SA rugby team loses the second test against the British Isles 8-17 in Johannesburg.
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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC), the first permanent political organisation to maintain and protect the rights of Indians in So
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Theophil Otto Frederick Charles (Theo) Wendt, composer and conductor of the SABC orchestra, is born in Sydenham, London.
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The first Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field is signe
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The Board of Executors, the first trust company in the world, is founded in Cape Town
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