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Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, is born in Krugersdorp.
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Dr Yusuf Mohamed (Mota) Dadoo, medical doctor and politician who escaped through Botswana to England, is born in Krugersdorp.
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Prime Minister Vorster flies to Zurich for talks (3-6 September) with the United States Secretary of State, Dr. Henry Kissinger
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The Freedom Deputation under Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog arrives in Durban from Europe after a fruitless effort to secure self-determin
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Two rebels of the Graaff-Reinet Rebellion five years previously, Marthinus Prinsloo and Adriaan van Jaarsveld, are sentenced to
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha pays a two-day (2-3 September) visit to Israel where Southern African issues are discussed with Pr
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The Independent Democrats welcomes eighteen municipal councillors mainly from the New National Party to its ranks on the first
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The Independent Democrats welcomes eighteen municipal councillors mainly from the New National Party to its ranks on the first
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A Defiance Campaign, similar to the 1952 Defiance Campaign, is launched by the United Democratic Fund (UDF) against banning, re
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A Defiance Campaign, similar to the 1952 Defiance Campaign, is launched by the United Democratic Fund (UDF) against banning, re
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Nelson Mandela is discharged from Cape Town’s Tygerberg hospital where he was treated for tuberculosis and transferred to a pri
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Col. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya after a coup d’état, deposing King Idris and exiling him to Egypt.
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Theophilus Shepstone, son of British Settlers and appointed by the British government as Diplomatic Agent to the Native Tribes
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The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is publis
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More than 10 000 Namibians attend a Windhoek rally to mark the anniversary of the start of SWAPO’s independence struggle.
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Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage mortar attack on regional army headquarters in Nile Val
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Anglo-Boer War 2: John Tengo Jabavu’s newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu, is banned under martial law regulations, only to appear agai
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WWII: The Active Citizen Force units of SA are authorised to accept volunteers for the duration of the war.
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Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko agrees to form a coalition government with opposition leaders after five days of rioting, th
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Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko agrees to form a coalition government with opposition leaders after five days of rioting, th
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According to Alex Holmes, chairperson of the South African Arms and Ammunition Dealers Association, five retailers have gone ba
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Armed militiamen have surged into a border area near a western village, where some of the first Darfur refugees attempting to r
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The New Zealand government announces that it terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa, as from 1 Ja
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South African ordinance workshops have produced the first Belgian F.N. rifle, which is now ready to go into production.
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Armed men raid an Algerian village, shooting or stabbing to death at least 200 people and wounding 100 others.
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Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat returns home to a hero’s welcome after Camp David summit resulting in an agreement on a framework
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Denel, SA’s state-owned defence and aerospace group, announces that it has been awarded contracts amounting to $2 million (abou
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President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela, leader of the ANC agree, at a peace summit, to resume constitutional negotiations t
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Mbuyiselo Mbotya (35) affiliated to KWT Youth League/UDF, dies in custody from head injuries in King William’s Town.
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