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A British Sports Council team begins a three-week fact-finding tour of South Africa to investigate racial discrimination in spo
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North African nations of Libya and Tunisia announce agreement to merge as a new republic, the Islamic Arab Republic". The
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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission refuses amnesty to Gideon Nieuwoudt, former police officer, for the death of Steve Biko
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According to a study by the Human Sciences Research Council, violent attacks by Whites against Blacks have increased sharply in
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Three draft Bills revising and streamlining South Africa’s security laws are placed before Parliament, their object being to re
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Chief Matanzima announces that all South Africans seconded to the Transkei Army will leave Transkei by 31 March 1978.
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The Confederation of Senegambia between Senegal and the Gambia is formally launched. The federation was intended to promote coo
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Dr. Nicolaas Diederichs, minister of finance, is elected as the National Party’s candidate to succeed State President Jim Fouch
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William Anderson Bloomfield, Victoria Cross winner during WW1, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland. His parents came to South Africa
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In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k
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Old Mutual announces its intention to note shares on the London stock exchange and four stock exchanges in Africa.
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Former State Pres. F.W. de Klerk admits to an extramarital affair with Elita Georgiades, wife of a rich Greek businessman.
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The government decides to close The Post and The Sunday Post because they have become media for communist viewpoints.
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Premier John Vorster decrees that in the future the ‘homelands’ will be allowed to accept direct foreign financial aid.
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Colonel Arthur Alfred Lynch is found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death for leading the "Irish Commando" a
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Adam Faith suspends his concert tour of South Africa, because the government prohibits him to perform before mixed audiences.
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Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, dies in Cape Town.
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The (Coloured) Labour Party opts for an election for the eighty representatives to the Coloured House of Representatives, witho
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At its annual conference in Eshowe, Natal, the Labour Party overwhelmingly adopts a resolution stating that it seeks to represe
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Voortrekker leaders Andries Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit (Gert) Maritz, each with his own men, leave for Western Transvaal to p
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The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as th
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President Thabo Mbeki joins several African leaders in Nairobi, Kenya, to witness the final signing of a peace accord between t
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Battleships are sent to Tangiers by the Spanish government as the first part of its intended invasion of Morocco.
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Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his wife Ruth Gerhardt, are sentenced to
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Commandant Gideon Scheepers is found guilty on several charges by a British court martial and sentenced to death. He professes
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Swaziland and South Africa agree to exchange trade representatives who will have the same rights and privileges as diplomatic p
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Libya declares its independence as a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris I. It is the first country to achi
BiographyAli Bacher
If Ali Bacher's commitment to cricket had ended after his playing days, he would have had a proud place on the sport's roll of honour. It was Ali Bacher, the…
BiographyDorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia, and her mother, Liza Mafuyani, was…
BiographyDolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and…