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The Minister of Health, Dr. A. Hertzog, says there can be no exception to the government’s policy of differential salaries for
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WWI: King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. Saxe-Coburg becomes Windsor and
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King Leopold retains control of his Congo Free State despite attempts by the Belgian government to annex the region. Internatio
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H.A. Fagan, former Chief Justice and Minister of Native Affairs, agrees to become leader of the National Union. Its founder, J.
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”United Anti-Fascist Rally.”flyer announcing rally in Durban on May 28, 1950, to be addressed by Dr. J. S. Moroka, [n.d.]
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Letter from the ANC Youth League (Transvaal) to the Secretary [Ruth First] of the Progressive Youth Council, March 16, 1945
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Report of a Deputation from the ANC to the Deputy Prime Minister and Others on March 4, 1942, by Dr. A. B. Xuma [n.d.]
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UDF Poster ‘Don’t vote in apartheid elections! Forward to freedom’ by UDF, 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
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Remarks from President Mbeki Comments to Designated Heads of Mission at Credentials Ceremony, Presidential Guesthouse, Pretoria, Tuesday 25 March 2008
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WWII: North Africa. North Africa is used as a base of operations for Operation Frantic – 130 Flying Fortresses fly to Russia,
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Pieter Hackius becomes Governor of the Cape and succeeds Jakob Borghorst who returns to The Netherlands because of poor health.
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Foreign Minister ‘Pik’ Botha meets Lesotho’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. They agree on the need to curb cross-border guerrilla
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A SA fishing trawler, the Sudurhavid, comes to grief at the Falkland Islands and seventeen of the thirty-eight crewmembers drow
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Britain, France, and the United States use their UN Security Council veto to stop a proposed arms embargo against South Africa.
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A proclamation is published in the Government Gazette providing for the detention of offenders for up to three years in rehabil
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The young girl Joan Horn disappears mysteriously in Pretoria. It is believed that her disappearance is connected to the activit
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The Police Amendment Bill, passed unopposed, empowers the police to search without warrant any person or premises within one mi
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Delegates at Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, approve new UN body, Agenda 21, to monitor compliance with environmental t
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ANC leader Nelson Mandela says in Geneva, Switzerland, that SA’s Black population is prepared to suffer the consequences of san
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Seven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park. Four SANParks employees are
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Six pupils and teachers are killed and more than eighty injured when the taxi feud spills over to Katlehong schools.
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A severe flood strikes Victoria West during the night after a cloudburst in the mountains to the south-west. More than sixt
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Adriaan Vlok, former apartheid era minister of law and order, applies to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for amnesty th
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South Africa and Botswana agree to take steps preventing ANC operatives from using Botswana as a transit base into South Africa
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Rival taxi groups attack each other at the Natalspruit Hospital taxi rank, starting a conflict that later spread to other parts
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Twenty-two members of parliament refuse to support a motion of confidence in Prime Minister P.W. Botha at a National Party Parl
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A military coup in Ghana deposes President Kwame Nkrumah while he is out of the country on his way to China. ;
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Cyclone Favio, a powerful tropical cyclone with winds of up to 270km/p surges ashore in southern Mozambique. In Vilanculos, abo
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The Minister of Manpower Utilisation warns that the government is planning to take a tougher line with the rapidly expanding an
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