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The COSATU building in Johannesburg is seriously damaged by two bomb blasts.
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International Conference on Women and Children under Apartheid, Arusha, starts.
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Prime Minister Vorster emphasises the need for continuing his policy of increasing détente in Southern Africa.
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Muhammad Siyad Barre, the Chairman Supreme Revolutionary Council (a military junta) orders the nationalisation of all foreign b
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The Deputy Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, announces in Parliament that Local Authorities must is
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Rhodesia’s White electorate have abandoned their traditional party loyalty and voted overwhelmingly for Ian Smith’s Rhodesian F
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The Industrial Conciliation Act empowers the Minister of Labour to reserve any job on a racial basis and orders the dissolution
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Mr Ben M. Skosana, former SA minister of Correctional Services, is born in Sharpeville.
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British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, announces plans to withdraw British troops from Egypt, dependent upon agreement for a m
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World War II: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following d
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WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Sir Harold Alexander’s 18th Army Group captures Bizerte and Tunis. All that rema
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WWII: East Africa. Naval bases of Antsirañana and Diego Suarez, Madagascar are surrendered to the British by Vichy forces.
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WWII: Germany and Italy announce a military and political alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
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Britain is angered over Egyptian claims to sovereignty over Sudan.
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Taubie Kushlick, SA actress and director, is born in Luckhoff, OFS.
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The ‘Volksraad’ of the ZAR gathers for the last time in Pretoria and is addressed by Pres. Paul Kruger.
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The ‘Tweetoringkerk’ is inaugurated in Bloemfontein.
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The Eastern Province Herald is founded in Port Elizabeth.
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Karl Gottlieb Mauch, the first man to discover gold in SA, is born in Stetten, Wurtemberg.
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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow
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Jan van Riebeeck and his family leave the Cape for Batavia on board of the ‘Mars’.
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The ships the ‘Walvis’ and the ‘Oliphant’, which were loaded too heavy to sail from the Netherlands with Jan van Riebeeck’s oth
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Cornelis Goover and twenty-four men land at Warwijk’s Haven, Mauritius, to establish a Dutch settlement on the island. Their ta
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Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille is elected with overwhelming majority as head of the country’s official opposition, the Democratic
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Concluding its investigation into the crash in the mountains near George in the Western Cape in which former SA cricket captain
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UN Security Council extends sanctions imposed on Liberia in 2001 for allegedly aiding rebels in Sierra Leone. The sanctions inc
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Zaire’s President Mobutu Sese Seko leaves the rebel-threatened capital and flees to Gabon to meet African leaders.
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Presidents Joaquim Chissano and Nelson Mandela sign an agreement to allow South African farmers to settle and farm land in Moza
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SA signs agreements establishing diplomatic relations with Ghana, Mali and Senegal.
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