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SA signs an agreement with the USA regarding co-operation in the development, building, installation and operation of an integr
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A Hammanskraal policeman, Richard Motasi, an alleged informer for the Zimbabwean security police, and his wife Irene is murdere
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The Appellate Division rejects the appeal of the "Sharpeville Six" against the death sentence imposed on them for the
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Dr Fabian Defu Ribeiro and his wife Florence Barbara are gunned down in their courtyard. Policemen A.J.M. Joubert, P.J. Verster
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Greg Page knocks out SA Gerrie Coetzee in eight rounds for the WBA heavyweight boxing title.
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Piet Crous, junior heavyweight champion of SA, wins the World Boxing Association (WBA) title.
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Angola is admitted to the United Nations.
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The government extends the Erasmus Commission’s terms of reference to 30 May 1979.
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Transkei’s first President, Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau, dies from a heart attack. Prime Minister K. Matanzima announces his r
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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and African nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo sign an agreement to start full constitutional n
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Bob Forster successfully defends his world lightweight title against SA challenger Pierre Fourie during the first-ever boxing c
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The trial of twenty-two Africans, accused of pro-Communist and subversive activities, of instigating guerrilla warfare and of o
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The Cape Argus changes its name to The Argus.
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SA signs agreement with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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Patrice Lumumba is caught in the Congo.
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SA, together with eleven other countries, signs the Antarctic Treaty, proclaiming it a conservation area, in Washington.
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Central African Republic becomes an autonomous member of the French Commonwealth with Boganda as president. (Now a National Da
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Sonja Heroldt, SA singer, is born.
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The South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (Sabra), an independent non-profit-making organisation, is established with the twof
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Horace William Chapman (50), SA cricket player in two tests, dies in Durban.
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Col. J.F. Jordaan of the SA force captures Gen. Christiaan de Wet, on his way to German South West Africa at Waterbury, near Vr
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Sir Henry Bale (56), chief justice of Natal, dies in Pietermaritzburg.
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The SA rugby team beats Wales 11-0 in Swansea.
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George Lohmann, cricketer (in South Africa 18 Tests, 112 wickets), dies.
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Sir Alfred Milner arrives in Cape Town.
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Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin.
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Zululand becomes part of the colony of Natal, after the initial annexation by the British in May 1887.
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The railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed.
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Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi, Xhosa poet and prose writer, and a member of the Xhosa Bible revision board, is born in Gqumahashe
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