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James Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry who strove to improve the image and administration
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Chief Matanzima (Transkei) outlines proposals for the creation of Xhosaland a new Black super-state to include the Transkei, Ci
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A bomb explodes at a synagogue in central Johannesburg four hours before State President Viljoen is due to attend a ceremony th
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Battle of Elands River: British Gen. Carrington retreats to the Marico River and Zeerust, Western Transvaal
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The African Republic of Upper Volta changes its named to Burkina Faso, which means ‘the land of upright men’.
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President Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50 000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months.
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Dr Willem Johannes Leyds, the ZAR special diplomatic representative in Europe, warns his government not to expect any assistanc
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An Italian, Commander Piazza, is the world’s first pilot to fly a military mission he flies reconnaissance missions over Tripol
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The US tells the UN it will halt all sales of military equipment to South Africa because of apartheid.
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Dr Allan Boesak, minister to the Piketberg congregation of the World Congregation of Reformed Churches and former anti-aparthei
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Deputy President F.W. de Klerk issues a statement that he does not intend to leave the Government of National Unity.
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While in Nigeria, Secretary-General Boutros-Boutros Ghali meets with South African Foreign Minister Roelof Botha to discuss the
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Jacobus Johannes Uys, Voortrekker pioneer to whom the English inhabitants of Grahamstown handed a Statebybel when he and his co
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A Defence Amendment Bill provides for a re-organisation of the defence system intended to give the South African Defence Force
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The Malagasy Foreign Minister declares that his country is going to reconsider its policy of dialogue with South Africa.
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Business Day reports that SA is about to test an intermediate range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads.
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The International Court of Justice at The Hague declares that South Africa is under obligation to withdraw its administration f
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The International Court of Justice at The Hague declares that South Africa is under obligation to withdraw its administration f
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Representatives of striking security guards and industry employers reach an agreement to end the strike at the Commission for C
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Justice W.G. Boshoff imposes prison sentences ranging from five to fifteen years on six defendants convicted under the Terroris
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A Zimbabwean student, threatening an air hostess with a syringe and hypodermic needle, demands access to the cockpit of an SAA
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The Minister of Economic Affairs, J.C. Heunis, announces that the government has agreed to increase the education and industria
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Petition to the Prime Minister, from the Rev. John L. Dube, President, South African Native National Congress, February 14, 1914
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Robbers gun down Philippus Wolfhaardt, land reform pioneer who also helped to finance a local school and employed 100 workers.
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Chief Malaboch (Mmalebôho, Mmalebôxo), chief of the Xananwa people, surrenders to Comdt-Gen. Piet Joubert after a siege of mo
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The Young Commission, charged with investigating possible outlets or areas abroad to which South African Indians can be relocat
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Sixty-seven of the sixty-nine suspected mercenaries plead guilty to lesser charges of violating Zimbabwe’s immigration and civi
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Chief Commandant C.R. De Wet, operating in the Bethlehem district, issues instructions to Commandant Willem D. Fouche in the Ea
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Anglo-Boer War 2: In a diplomatic note to the ZAR Milner states that the new Aliens Act includes unacceptable regulations.
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