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… The Hewat Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC boycotters. …

… Twenty-three residents are killed in police action during a protest in Duncan Village, East London. …

… The Springbok team beats the All Blacks 17-6 in the first test match in Pretoria. …

… The annexation of the Transvaal is announced in the House of Assembly in Cape Town. …

… Roy Martin Macnab, writer, poet and former cultural attaché in London, is born in Durban. …

… George Thembalake (15) dies in hospital after arrested at a student gathering in King William’s Town. …

… The house of exile Nat Serache in Botswana is blown up in a cross-border operation. …

… President Jomo Kenyatta bans big-game hunting in Kenya in an attempt to conserve wildlife. …

… British invade Zululand in three columns. Date is given as 10 January in another source. …

… Today in history, Pretoria News, 8 Jan., 2003 … The ANC announces it will dismantle its guerrilla camps in Angola in support of peace. …

… Adamson, scientist and author of ‘Born Free’, is murdered in a game reserve in Kenya. …

… White referendum in Southern Rhodesia is overwhelmingly in support of Ian Smith’s proposal for independence. …

… White referendum in Southern Rhodesia is overwhelmingly in support of Ian Smith’s proposal for independence. …

… US President Ronald Reagan is in favour of covert aid for UNITA rebels in Angola. …

… The first church council in the Orange Free State is ordained, probably in Thaba ‘Nchu. …

… More than 400 people are massacred in four villages in Algeria during the country’s insurgency. …

… Nineteen people are killed in an attack on an ANC enclave in an IFP stronghold. …

… General Schalk Burger opens the Voortrekker Museum in the Church of the Covenant in Pietermaritzburg. …

… Seven Blacks are killed in a police ambush on alleged ANC guerrillas in Guguleto, Western Cape. …

… Abraham Kriel, founder of the Abraham Kriel Orphanage in Langlaagte, is born in Franschhoek, CC. …

… Ethiopia announces that 2 300 guerrillas have been killed in fighting in Eritrea. …

… Joseph Christy (66), South African cricket player in 10 tests, dies in Durban. …

… In the new Republic of Cameroon hundreds of people are reported killed in rebel attacks. …

… Gastrow: Who's Who in South African Politics … Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs in the previous government, is born in Rustenburg, Transvaal. …

… Ten ANC refugees are killed in an attack on a house in Murchison, Natal South Coast. …

… The first successful Caesarean in Africa is performed in Cape Town by Dr. James Barry …

… Steincoalspruit in 1981: physical decay after the tenants were moved to a resettlement camp in 1977/8 …

… Plack poster with white title top and bottom. mage in centre of people marching through the streets. … In the streets : May Day is ours! …

… Paul Kruger used to be a member of the church in Pretoria . This church still has the chairs Paul and his … Kruger chairs (Die twee Krugerstoele) in the Paul Kruger Church (Geref. Kerkgebou) in Church Street, Pretoria West. …

… The chargesheet presented in the Supreme Court of South Africa (Transvaal Provincial … In the Supreme Court of South Africa …