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Several University of Cape Town students are injured and eighteen arrested during a 1000-strong picket in De Waal Drive in Cape
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The Natal Supreme Court declares the ban on campaigns for the release of detainees invalid.
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The Prime Minister, P.W. Botha, orders the Minister of Law and Order, Le Grange, to investigate the activities of the Afrikaner
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the Black Consciousness…
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Rhodesia’s first Black cabinet ministers are sworn into office after the announcement the previous day that four tribal chiefs
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Andrew Mehrtens, fly half of the All Blacks, is born in South Africa.
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The President of the Ivory Coast reiterates his initiative for opening a dialogue with South Africa.
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Seven guerrillas are killed in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) at Sinoya in the first engagement of the armed struggle against White ru
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Prof. J.C. van Rooy and Dr E. Greyling open the CNO-Voortrekker-Bewaarskool (Christian National Education Crèche) in Pietermar
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Faud dies and his 16-year-old son, Farouk, becomes King of Egypt.
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The first football FA-cup final match is played in the Wembley Stadium, London.
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The League of Nations is established, with Gen. Jan Smuts and Prime Minister Louis Botha as the two representatives of the Unio
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Louis-Herbert Lyautey is appointed as the first Resident-General of Morocco, with a particular instruction to suppress anti-Fre
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A punitive expedition is undertaken by the British against Muhammed Abdalah Hassan (known to the British as the ‘Mad Mullah’) i
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Willem Frederick Gerard Nicolai (66), Dutch composer of the Free State anthem, dies in the Netherlands. He never visited So
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Hendrika (Rikie) Postma, author of chiefly Bible stories and other stories for children and prominent supporter of the Ossewa-t
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The Huguenot Church, designed by Louis Thibault and oldest church building in SA after the Groote Kerk in Cape Town, is consecr
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The English fleet destroys pirate fleet of Bey of Tunis and releases prisoners in Algiers.
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Jan van Riebeeck replies in a letter to the Heeren XVII (Council of Seventeen, the central executive committee of the Dutch Eas
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Stampede mars democracy party. At least fifteen people are treated in Pretoria Academic Hospital after they were injured in a s
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Pandemonium breaks loose when Sepp Blatter, the chairperson of Fifa, the soccer world governing body, and his entourage enters
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe’s arrival at the inauguration of Pres. Thabo Mbeki was greeted with mixed emotions. Most of
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Former president Nelson Mandela receives thunderous applause when he arrives for President Thabo Mbeki’s inauguration.
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Freedom Day. Pres. Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated for his second term as president on the same day the RSA celebrates its 10th anni
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The ‘golden’ cow of Stellenbosch, 9045 Superstar, dies on the farm of Ludwig van Deventer.
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Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pik Botha, marries Ina Joubert, ex-journalist of the SABC, on his birthday in Pretoria.
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Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, with Lucas Radebe replacing Neil Tovey as captain, wins 2-1 against the former Zaire in a Wo
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The Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) boycotts the first democratic general election in South Africa.
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United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali congratulates South Africa on the occasion of the country’s first democr
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