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The Minister of Manpower Utilisation announces the removal of the ban on the employment of skilled Black construction workers i
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Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala.
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Fifty Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members arrested by Swaziland government orders are to be expelled from Swaziland. They are
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Forty members are elected to Lebowa’s Legislative Assembly, the remaining sixty seats being allocated to nominated chiefs. Cedr
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Prime Minister B.J. Vorster takes the first cautious step in the direction of a new sport policy by announcing in the House of
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Nigeria imposes a trade boycott on South Africa.
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Myrna Blumberg, correspondent for the New York Post and the London Daily Herald in SA, is detained and restricted.
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French authorities dissolve The Algerian Assembly.
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F.W. de Klerk, later president of SA, marries his first wife, Marike Willemse.
EventZamokwakhe (Samuel) Gumede, SA sculptor, is born in Langkloof, Bergville, Natal.
Zamokwakhe (Samuel) Gumede, SA sculptor, is born in Langkloof, Bergville, Natal.
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General China, the operation undertaken by British authorities against the Mau Mau in Kenya, ends in failure.
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Mohandas Gandhi leads a batch of Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. He is not arrested but members of his batch are a
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Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker meet Gandhi in Delhi.
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End of a four day meeting between Hitler and Mussolini over failure to hold North Africa.
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Captain C.D. Barnard begins a record-breaking flight from London to Cape Town.
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Mussolini is greeted with royal honours when he lands in Africa.
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Willem van der Berg, SA novelist and former head of the Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC), is born.
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Construction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed. Spanning the gorge of the Zambezi River, the brid
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Kemp, in charge of the Lemmer, Du Toit, Liebenberg, Celliers, and Potgieter commandos (approximately
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Uganda is declared a British protectorate.
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Britain separates Gambia from Sierra Leone.
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Zulu warriors ambush Petrus Lafras (Piet) Uys and his men at Italeni. Uys, his son Dirkie and seven of his followers are ki
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George McCall Theal, historian and first archivist appointed by the Cape government, is born in Canada. He was the author of se
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August Friedrich Beutler, official of the Dutch East Indies Company and scout of the interior of SA, is born in Dinkelsbühl, G
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In what is believed to be a first in Cape Town, lightning strikes a Brooklyn resident in her home. The N1 freeway is closed t
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Health activists address the R13-million shortfall faced by the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. By lau
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Dr Paul Bosman is murdered in his home in Shelly Beach, KwaZulu Natal, ten days after his retirement as head of the SA veterina
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The soccer team of Gabon beats the SA Bafana Bafana 1-0 on the Odi soccer field.
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Laura Rautenbach (66), sculptor of several monuments and busts, dies of cancer in Bloemfontein.
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