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The authorities release the leader of the Coloured Labour Party, the Rev. Allan Hendrickse, after holding him in prison for two
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Further trouble erupts at a funeral in Soweto when a crowd of 4,000 attacks police. Retaliatory fire causes deaths and injuries
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In the United Nations Security Council ‘Pik’ Botha says that South Africa will do everything in its power to move away from dis
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In the elections the Transkei National Independence Party wins twenty-five seats, the Democratic Party ten, Independents eight.
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Yom Kippur War ends with Israeli troops 100 km from Cairo and forty km from Damascus. Several other dates are given for this ev
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The Security Police raid more than 100 homes throughout the country in a search for illegal political literature.
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In a declaration on the 25th anniversary of the United Nations, the General Assembly describes apartheid as "a crime again
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The Herstigte Nasionale Party (Reconstituted National Party) is established. The name implies that the National Party has devia
The Herstigte Nasionale Party (Reconstituted National Party) is established. The name implies that the National Party has deviated from its original course.
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Northern Rhodesia becomes independent as the Republic of Zambia, with Kenneth Kaunda as first president. Southern Rhodesia
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The SA delegation to the UN walks out during the debate on apartheid, claiming that it is interfering with SA domestic affairs.
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The General Committee of the first UN General Assembly does not support the request of the Union of South Africa that the India
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The United Nations (UN) comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 (51?) nations. SA premier Jan
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SA informs the League of Nations that it will apply all sanctions imposed on Italy.
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Italy invades Ethiopia. Date is given as 3 October in the following source.
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Murray Bisset, SA cricket player in three tests (1898-1910), dies in Salisbury, Rhodesia.
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Black Thursday, the first day of the stock market crash, which began the world-wide Great Depression. This event aggravated the
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Pixley ka I. Seme proposes "Native Union".
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Rietfontein, near Dundee, Natal, takes place, with the British falling back to Ladysmith.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: John Tengu Jabavu, editor of Imvo Zabantsundu (Black Opinion) and future ANC member, denounces Britain’s “irr
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Prof. Jacobus Gerhard Meiring, educationist and rector of the University of the Western Cape, is born in Johannesburg.
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Windvogelberg, named after a San chief, is renamed Cathcart in honour of Sir George Cathcart, Governor of the Cape Colony.
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Thomas William Bowler (56), SA painter, dies in London.
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The corner stone of the St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Somerset Road, Cape Town, is laid by the acting governor of the Cape
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Louis Balthazar Meurant, Swiss-born SA musician and composer, dies in Cape Town.
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The Cape of Good Hope Gazette appears for the first time.
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Olof Bergh, Swedish explorer at the Cape, returns to the Cape from his second journey of exploration, ordered by Governor Simon
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Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, falls to Genseric and the Vandals.
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United Nations Day.
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World Development Information Day.
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