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Saboteurs blow up two railway lines south of Johannesburg.
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It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.
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The maritime section of the Castle military museum, the Maritime museum, illustrating all facets of fleet activities in South A
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Following the results obtained in the general election held in April, a new cabinet is sworn in.
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UN agrees to Egyptian demand to withdraw UN forces from Gaza Strip.
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Harm Oost (87), journalist, author, politician and champion for Afrikaans dies in Garsfontein, Pretoria.
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The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta
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Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30 commences, amending the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act to rem
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During Muslim-Nationalist riots for independence in Nigeria; at least thirty-two people are killed.
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The UN, previously without a permanent home, begins to move into headquarters in New York City.
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WWII: East Africa. The 5th Indian Division, part of General William Platt’s Northern Force, takes Amba Alagi after eighteen day
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The SA general election is won by the United Party with 111 seats, followed by the ‘Herenigde Nasionale Party’ (Re-united Nat
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Following a successful coup against his brother Abd al-Aziz IV, the new Moroccan Sultan Abd al-Hafid requests aid from France a
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The infamous Moroccan bandit, Raizuli, kidnaps an American citizen, Ion H Perdicaris.
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The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators, Generals Botha, De Wet, De la Rey, Smuts and Hertzog attend peace talks in Pretoria with Lo
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Total eclipse of the sun observed in Mauritius.
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Jan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town.
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An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the
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Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van
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Joachim A. van Plettenberg is sworn in as governor of the Cape after Ryk Tulbach passed away.
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The Sultan of Egypt and his son Ashraf take Acre, the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land.
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Four British tourists escape unharmed when the Moroccan hotel they are staying in is damaged in a terrorist bomb attack.
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The United Nations conference on poverty announces the launch of the World Trade University, a new university to give the world
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The Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh is held by British forces as involvement in civil war increases.
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Hugh Rouse (78), SA radio announcer, dies in Johannesburg of cancer of the throat.
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Zaire’s new leader Laurent Kabila renames the nation the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Roelf Meyer announces his resignation as leader of the NP in Gauteng and member of parliament.
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Parliament approves legislation to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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