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South Africa’s Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation edited by Les Switzer

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The first 25 families from Germany arrive at Swakopmund, German South West Africa (Namibia).

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A diesel train carrying 1 140-ton diesel derails and explodes in Swartruggens, North West Province.

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A diesel train carrying 1 140-ton diesel derails and explodes in Swartruggens, North West Province.

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South West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO) begins armed struggle against S.A. occupation of Namibia.

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Thelma Gutsche, author, biographer and film critic, is born in Somerset West, Cape Province.

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West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against SA.

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Gert Potgieter, SA singer who was killed in a car accident in 1977, is born.

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General Adolf von Trotha replaces Theodor Leutwein as governor of German South West Africa.

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Willem E. Bok (57), government commissioner after whom Boksburg was named, dies in Jeppestown, Johannesburg.

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The name of the town Victoria in the Karoo is changed to Victoria West.

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Empire Day is first celebrated. It was later renamed Commonwealth Day (24 May 1959).

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Popo Molefe, former premier of the North West Province appointed in 1994, is born.

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Sam Shaffishuna Nujoma, first president of Namibia, is born in Ongandjera, South West Africa.

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Ednah Molewa, Premier of the North West Province since 22 April 2004, is born.

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Maria Wilman, geologist and botanist of international repute, is born in Beaufort West, CC.

This family was resettled as a result of the creation of the Tembe Elephant Park

This family was resettled as a result of the creation of the Tembe Elephant Park

Piet Mokoena portrait

Piet Mokoena

Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa by Jennifer Bajorek

Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bothaville or Doornkraal is fought with Gen. De Wet surrendering

Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012

Freedom Charter and the United Nations by E.S. Reddy

Pravin Gordhan vs the Law, as defined by clichés by Mervyn E. Bennun (Politics Web), 08 September 2016

Enuga S Reddy: Meeting with SWAPO in Dar Es Salaam -1969

David Moiloa portrait

David Moiloa

If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016

They will answer to God - Ahmed Timol’s brother, News24 in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017

South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule

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South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule

From Gqogqora to Liberation: The Struggle was My Life by Theodore Combrinck and Philip Hirschsohn