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… twentieth century. Together, R.R.R and Dhlomo and served as editors of Ilanga Lase Natal in the 1940s. From a very … it is a source of ideas, a cultural and educational factor, an agency for political propaganda, a social … but creating a discourse that effectively refuted English colonialism on the premises of which they were based. To …

… and theologian, Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana was selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of … Dr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of …

… undertook the trip to request that he should be restored as a king of the Zulu Kingdom. He also vowed not to go to war … travels to London to request that he should be restored as a king of the Zulu Kingdom …

… Square police station. The police station‚ now known as Johannesburg Central‚ was the scene where Timol fell to … "There was a kind of hood on Ahmed's head‚" Essop said as he demonstrated how Timol was being assisted to an … John Vorster Square revisited as Timol inquest reopened by Ernest Mabuza (Timeslive.co.za), …

… Day highlights the importance of literacy in areas such as health and education …

… Speech at his inauguration as President of South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, June 16 1999 …

… a department for Coloured Affairs, under I.D. du Plessis as first head. …

… Belgium annexes the Congo Free State. Date is given as 18 October by brainyhistory.com. …

… The Rev. Allan Hendrickse steps down after fourteen years as leader of the Labour Party. …

… Parliament elects Negaso Gidada as president of the newly-named Federal Democratic Republic …

… (Joseph) Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid-Afrikaan. …

… Rwanda leader Paul Kagame is sworn in as first elected president since the 1994 genocide. …

… The first number of Die Transvaler, with H.F. Verwoerd as editor, is published in Johannesburg. …

… Anglo-Boer War 2: General Schalk W. Burger is appointed as Acting State President in Kruger’s absence. …

… planes carrying US food aid reach Balet Huen, Somalia, as hundreds cheer. …

… The Casbah area of Algiers is sealed off as French troops search for weapons caches …

… Joshua Polumo Mohapeloa, regarded as Lesotho’s foremost composer and choral master, dies in …

… British invade Zululand in three columns. Date is given as 10 January in another source. …

… inside a fifth shrine at Luxor, Egypt. Wallis gives date as 3 January. …

… James Baker, former US secretary of state, resigns as the UN mediator for Western Sahara. …

… van Jaarsveld (56), Eastern Cape resistance leader, dies as prisoner in the Cape Castle. …

… Madagascar gains independence as the Malagasy Republic.  In 1975 it becomes the Republic of …

… Marais Viljoen is inaugurated as SA’s fifth state president after the resignation of B.J. …

… Britain annexes the Rode Valley at the Pondoland frontier as part of the Cape Colony. …

… Egypt demands fifty-year freeze on Israel’s population as condition for peace in Middle East. …

… SA experiences a monetary crisis as a result of the heavy drain of gold from the country. …

… Anwar al-Sadat is named by Colonel Gamal Abdul al-Nasser as his successor. …

… the twenty years since South Africa became a Republic as a ‘golden era’. …

… Johannes Henricus (Jan) Brand is inaugurated as the fourth president of the Orange Free State. …

… and Italy announce a military and political alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis. …