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A comprehensive monetary agreement is signed between South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland.
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It is announced that White, Coloured and Asian workers affiliated to the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) have voted
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A cabinet minister restates the government’s policy for the Coloured people. Any policy, or lack thereof, which can lead to int
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The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, announces the suspension, from 11 January 1965, of the clause in the General Law Amendme
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Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium.
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Walter Sisulu, John Mavuso, Moses Kotane, Marks Ramitloa and Betty du Toit attend a Christmas party in aid of the high treason
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The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts resolution 616(VII) establishing a three-member Commission to study the racia
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Devikarani Priscilla Jana, jurist, activist and ANC politician, is born in Durban.
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Louis Edmund Benjamin (70), judge of the Cape Supreme Court, dies.
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The Pretoria City Hall is officially inaugurated.
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Italian and Ethiopian troops clash at the Ualual (Welwel) on the disputed Somali-Ethiopian border.
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The United South African National Party, also known as the United Party, is officially formed with the fusion of the National P
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The SA rugby team beats Wales 8-3 in Swansea.
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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe, Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) leader who was imprisoned and under house arrest for many year
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Schalk Willem Burger, vice-president and acting president of the ZAR after President Kruger left for Europe in 1900, dies at Go
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Santam (Suid-Afrikaanse Nasionale Trusten Assuransie-Maatskappy Bpk) is founded by five men with C.F. Fichardt as chairman.
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Cassim Mahomed Lakhi, lecturer and later head of the Department of History of Art in the University College for Indians (later
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General Louis Botha, SA prime minister, unveils a monument on the grave of Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, first president of the Z
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Italian forces at Tripoli defeat Turks.
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Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, is born on the farm M
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The British government again restricts the Cape Colony to the old Fish River boundary.
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Thomas Pringle (45), journalist and editor of Cape newspaper Commercial Advertiser, dies in London.
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The Wesleyan mission station Wesleyville, on the Twecu River in the present East London district, is founded by the Rev. Willia
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International Violence Day.
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Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
The evidence that Stephen Ellis refers to about Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party is pretty definitive. It is based upon recollections of party…
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Mandela, Communism and South Africa by Stephen Ellis (Open Democracy), 25 July 2011, South Africa
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Edward Holcroft, general manager of NetDay South Africa, a non-profit organisation, announces the group has set up computer n
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South Africa’s Shaun Pollock becomes only the fifth player in test cricket history to take 300 wickets and score 3 000 runs on
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) celebrates its 18th anniversary with a goal to become the first union forma
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