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Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Cyprian Bhepezulu, and twelve Kraals occupied by his followers, are attacked by hostile Blacks fo
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The Government closes all lines of communication with five districts in Pondoland and reintroduces emergency regulations for th
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J.G. Strijdom, in his first public appearance as Prime Minister, tells a National Party gathering in Pretoria that nothing will
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Dr D.F. Malan retires as prime minister, and withdraws from politics. Adv. J.G. Strijdom succeeds him.
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The Joint Committee of the First and Sixth Committees of the General Assembly adopts a French-Mexican proposal, supported by In
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Geoffrey Lawrence Vinal Armstrong, S.A. artist, is born in Vereeniging, Transvaal.
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WWII: Badoglio government in Italy strips sovereign title from the Emperor of Ethiopia.
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The Voortrekker Beweging (Afrikaner youth movement) starts a torch-race, ending in Pretoria at the laying of the cornerstone of
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Jan H.H. de Waal (65), SA author, dies in Cape Town.
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Moroccan Nationalist movement is founded.
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Goolam Mohamed Karim, chairman of the Islamic Medical Association, Eastern Transvaal branch who wrote several books and present
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The SA rugby team scores ten tries and beats Ireland 38-0 in Dublin.
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, war correspondent during Anglo-Boer War 2 and later premier of Britain, is born in Oxfor
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Dr Robert Broom, SA archaeologist and discoverer of the “Mrs Ples” skull at the Sterkfontein Caves, is born in Scotland.
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A congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church is founded in Bloemfontein, two years after the establishment of the town.
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Pieter Hackius, commander of the Cape of Good Hope, dies at the Cape.
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The United Nations announces that South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will head a UN fact-finding mission to Gaza’s Beit
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The bodies of world-famous South African opera star Deon van der Walt and his father have been found on their wine estate near
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Schalk Burger, flank forward AJ Venter, centre Gcobani Bobo and uncapped winger, Jongikhaya Nokwe are released to play for the
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The reigning Tri-Nations champions, the Springboks, beats out France for the team-of-the year award. Jake White is named coach
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Lawsuits seeking more than $400bn in damages from US corporations for victims of apartheid in South Africa are tossed out by US
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Representatives of the diamond industry and more than thirty governments agree to certify all legitimate shipments of rough dia
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Three tourists from overseas are killed in a bus accident on the Robinson Pass, Western Cape.
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The SA rugby team beats England 29-11 in Twickenham.
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A document released in Cape Town, discloses that SA ministers condoned the murder of Black demonstrators during the 1976 riots.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu is appointed as chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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The H F Verwoerd Dam in the Orange Free State has been renamed the Gariep Dam with immediate effect, Water Affairs and Forestry
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Red Cross says clan battles in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu have killed more than 1 000 people.
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SA President’s Council rejects a concept bill, which would have led to stricter apartheid’s enforcement.
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