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Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30 commences, amending the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act to rem
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The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a
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Malawi voters stream from impoverished villages to take part in the first multiparty election in three decades. Kamuzu Banda, o
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Winnie Mandela, placed under restriction in Soweto on 28 December 1976 is now banished to a Black township outside Brandfort, O
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French government announces a state of national emergency, giving it special powers to deal with the Algerian revolt and associ
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Turkish newspapers issue harsh criticism of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award named after i
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Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser officiate at the ceremony to blow up a san
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The Smithsonian Institute, curator of the United States’ most important museum system, decides to sell all its holdings, worth
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A rusty freighter teeming with thousands of sick and hungry Liberian refugees is finally allowed to limp into a Ghanaian port a
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Immorality Amendment Act No 21 commences, extending the 1927 Immorality Act to all Black people including Coloureds and Asians.
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”De Nationale Pers” forerunner to Tafelberg Publishers is registered as a company. Six years later the name was translated into
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The ANC announces it will suspend constitutional negotiations until the government meets its demands for an end to violence.
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Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30 commences, amending the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act to rem
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The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a
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The Canadian Government announces the extension of a General Preferential Tariff (GPT) to South Africa, making it easier for So
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The Azanian People’s Organisation and the Pan Africanist Congress announce they are to work towards the formation of a patrioti
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Helene Pastoors, the Belgian national sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment in 1986 for treason, is released from prison followi
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Peter Schütz, S.A artist, is born in Glogau, East Germany. His family emigrated to SA in the early fifties.
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Governor Sir Benjamin D’Urban issues a proclamation extending the boundary of the Cape Colony eastwards from the Keiskamma to t
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Chief Leabua Jonathan, leader of the Basutoland National Party, which is to form the Protectorate’s first government, tells pol
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Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev arrives in the United Arab Republic to meet with Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nass
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Prof. Sibusiso Mandlenkosi Emmanuel Bengu, SA ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany and former SA Minister of Education
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A combined force of British soldiers and armed Blacks attempts to surround General C.H. Muller’s commando, commanded in his abs
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World War II: Germany signs an unconditional surrender at Allied headquarters in Rheims, France, to take effect the following d
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WWII: East Africa. Naval bases of Antsirañana and Diego Suarez, Madagascar are surrendered to the British by Vichy forces.
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The British Lions rugby team leaves London to begin a controversial twenty-two-match tour of South Africa and Rhodesia.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Holkrantz massacre takes place. Qulusi-Zulu chief Sokhobobo takes an impi to recover cattle allegedly r
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Magdalena Gertruide (Magda) Sauer, first woman in SA to practise as a qualified architect, is born in Kenilworth, Cape Town.
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United States President Bill Clinton announces the doubling of $600 million United States assistance to South Africa over the n
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