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The International Court of Justice at The Hague rules, by the narrow majority of eight votes to seven, that it has jurisdiction
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Moïse Kapenda Tshombe agrees to a unification of the Congo.
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As result of investigations into the Port Elizabeth explosions, Security Police arrest and charge Robert H. Strachan with causi
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Sydney Carter, SA painter known for his landscape paintings, dies in President Brand Park, district of Harrismith, OFS.
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2,800 African miners strike at the Van Rhyn Deep mines in a bid to redress some of their grievances.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The inaugural meeting of the Burgher Peace Committee is held in Pretoria. Lord Kitchener discusses his concen
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Marjorie (Margaretha) Emma McKerron (née Martinius), educationist, is born in Clanwilliam, Western Cape. She was one of
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence) -Government of the ZAR declares Martial Law.
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The Rev. John Browlee (80), founder of King William’s Town, dies in the town.
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Sir Patrick Duncan, lieutenant-governor of the Cape, is born in Fortrie, Aberdeenshire.
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Egyptian forces rout Turkish army at Battle of Konieh.
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Bishop Thomas Grimley, SA educationist, is born in Dublin, Ireland.
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Robert Moffat, London Missionary Society missionary at Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, is born in Ormiston, Sco
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Anglo Platinum’s corporate communications group manager Mike Mtakati, his wife Nonhlanhla and his four children are killed in a
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The General Assembly terminated the mandate of the Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petrol
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Archaeologists of Egypt and the US discover a fleet of ships 500 years old near the Nile.
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The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) starts its first meeting. Seventeen of the nineteen parties attending the
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The Sowetan reports that a petition, signed by 30 000 White South Africans, calling for all sports venues to be opened to all r
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South African President P.W. Botha fires the government’s only non-White Cabinet Minister, Amichand Rajbansi, with effect from
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Security Clearance Act No 40, requiring security clearance of people as a prerequisite to their employment in certain education
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Internal Security Amendment Act No 39, empowering the president to close certain educational institutions in certain circumstan
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Six South Africans and three Lesotho nationals are killed in an attack for which the renegade Lesotho Liberation Army claims re
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Ethiopia becomes a socialist one-party state.
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Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat is named by Colonel Gamal Abdul al-Nasser as his successor.
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The rugby team of England beats SA 11-3 at Twickenham.
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The United Nations General Assembly passes a draft Resolution, by eighty-seven votes to one (Portugal) and twelve abstentions,
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Arthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies in Maseru, Basutoland (Les
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A re-organisation of the South African Defence Force replaces the General Staff with a body to be known as the ‘Supreme Command
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Prof. J.L.B. Smith receives a cable from Captain Eric Hunt, stating that he has a coelacanth at the Comoro Islands. Prime Minis
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