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A former theology student, Carl Niehaus, is sentenced to fifteen years in prison for high treason in the Rand Supreme Court. Hi
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Martial law is now in effect over three-quarters of Rhodesia.
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The Southern African Freedom Foundation (SAFF) is exposed as a government front financed out of public funds.
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Ian Smith announces that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia.
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A bomb explodes in the Carlton Centre, Johannesburg, injuring sixteen people.
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Agreement signed between Britain and Rhodesia to give Blacks greater political rights which should eventually lead to majority
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General Joseph-Désiré Mobutu ousts President Kasavubu in his second military coup in the Congo (Now Zaire).
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Belgian paratroopers, the Congolese army and mercenaries recapture Stanleyville in the Congo from rebels.
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UN Security Council calls on UN members to make Africa a nuclear weapons-free zone.
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The UN General Assembly presses Britain, France and Israel for withdrawal of their troops from Egypt. The United States joins t
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Dr Jean Benjamin, Deputy Minister of Social Development in the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.
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The first bar of gold is cast in Welkom, five years after the discovery of gold in the OFS.
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Vuminkosi Zulu, S.A. sculptor is born in Kranskop, KwaZulu, Natal. Johannesburg Art Gallery: The Neglected Tradition, p. 134 g
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The great tank battle of Sidi Rezegh in North Africa rages unabated in World War 2. The South Africans, outnumbered by their Ge
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Prime Minister J.C. Smuts appoints Dr H.J. van der Bijl to the post of Director General of War Supplies, making him, next to Sm
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Arthur Chaskalson, former SA president of the Constitutional Court, is born in Johannesburg.
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Egyptian premier Saad Zaghloel (Zaghlol) Pasja resigns after his refusal to apologise to Britain for the assassination of Gener
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Lennox Sidney Brown, SA cricket player in two tests, is born in Randfontein.
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Hansi Pauline Pollak, sociologist, welfare worker and activist, is born in Johannesburg. In 1980 the University of Natal awarde
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Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, is born in Peel, Isle of Man, UK.
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Dr William Robertson (74), Scottish clergyman in SA, dies in Cape Town.
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Jacob de Villiers Roos, journalist, attorney, Director of Prisons, Controller and Auditor-General of the Union of South Africa
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Johann Hendrik Lodewyck Schumann, prisoner of war who played an important role on St Helena to encourage musical and cultural a
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The Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) and the Republic of Lydenburg unite in Rustenburg.
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Election officials confirm Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as the winner in Liberia’s post-war elections, making her Africa’s first-ever
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Police find 46kg of cocaine worth R21 million in a box in the cargo section of Johannesburg International Airport. A man with a
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Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu, delivering the second annual Nelson Mandela Lecture in Johannesburg issues a stern warning th
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More than 500 traditional healers march to the Treatment Action Campaign’s offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg, demanding tha
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South African flanker Schalk Burger (21) picks up two major international awards, the first player ever to receive the internat
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