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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC), the first permanent political organisation to maintain and protect the rights of Indians in So
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A US cargo plane carrying 10 tons of food sweeps into Wajir, Kenya, to relieve famine in the Horn of Africa.
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The Heeren XVII refuses the catching of whales, suggested by Van Riebeeck to supplement the income generated at the Cape.
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Israeli government informs the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid that it has taken all necessary steps to ensure th
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Anglo-Boer War: Colonel Ingouville-Williams’ column transports General De la Rey’s 84 year old mother to the Klerksdorp concent
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The Chinese community, officially classed non-White in the past though they were admitted to White theatres, restaurants and re
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The Commonwealth announces that it will send a team of about a dozen observers to South Africa as part of international efforts
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The Commonwealth announces that it will send a team of about a dozen observers to South Africa as part of international efforts
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Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu, now in Mali. He was murdered there the f
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WW 2: Japan surrenders unconditionally, bringing to an end a war in which millions of people, and many South Africans, were kil
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The SA regional airline, Sun Air, discontinues its service and thousands of disappointed passengers have to acquire seats on ot
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Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha, in Vienna to discuss signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, says South Africa has th
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Gen. C.F. Beyers, Commandant-General of SA, resigns his commission in protest against the resolution of the government to enter
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Dr James Barry, colonial medical inspector who will perform what is believed to be the first recorded, and successful, caesarea
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Louis Washkansky, first heart transplant patient in the world on 3 December 1967, is admitted to Groote Schuur hospital in Cape
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An agreement is signed by several role-players, including the Minister of Land Affairs, Derek Hanekom, to redevelop District Si
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Speaking to the Transvaal Congress of the ruling National Party in Pretoria, the Prime Minister again rejects major changes in
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The governor of Portuguese East Africa, J.J. Machado, invites Pres. Kruger to stay in the official residenc
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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) declines an invitation by the Durban Mayor’s office to enable members of the Indian community t
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In reaction to an inquiry, officials in Pretoria reply that Johannesburg is named after Johann Friedrich Bernhard Rissik and Ch
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The Minister of Defence states that South Africa will provide bases and communication facilities to the maritime forces of West
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The Minister of Defence states that South Africa will provide bases and communication facilities to the maritime forces of West
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Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he has been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.
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Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he has been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Representatives of the ZAR and the Free State governments meet in Nelspruit and decide to allow President K
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A two-day follow-up conference on Educational Assistance to disadvantaged South Africans is organised in New York by the United
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The bitter debate over the power of central government in relation to the provinces is reopened when the Constitutional Court r
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Twenty-nine (numbers differ, according to the police nineteen) people are killed in an attack by police on election protestors
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Nqetho, Qwabe chief, forces the Rev. J.W. Shepstone to abandon the Morley mission station. Nqetho was murdered in December of t
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