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Somali troops invade Ethiopia to assert claim to Ogaden desert area.
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Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go from house to house in Orlando, Johannesburg, and rally support amongst the residents against t
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Joseph Kasavubu is appointed president of a UN supported confederation of independent Congolese states.
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Dr D.F. Malan (84), SA Premier (1948-1954), dies in Stellenbosch.
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Passive Resister reports that 1 586 Resisters, including 259 women, have been sentenced.
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World War 2: The 2nd SA Division moves into Tobruk.
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The British capture Benghazi in Libya for the first time; they hold it until April but are then forced to evacuate, recapturing
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Sen. Tommy Boydell, member of the Labour Party and ex-minister in the coalition cabinet of Gen. J.B.M. Hertzog, assaults J.S. M
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Britain, Germany and Belgium agree on the borders of Congo, Uganda and German East Africa.
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Dr D.F.Malherbe is appointed as professor in modern languages at the Grey University College in Bloemfontein at the request of
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Student committees decide to end the boycott of Black schools, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) having declared i
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Percy Qoboza, who had resigned as editor of the Post papers on 13 January 1981 and left immediately for the United States, says
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At a meeting of the newly organised Soweto Students’ League it is decided to continue the students’ boycott of State schools, t
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At a meeting between John Vorster and eight ‘homelands’ leaders, strong representations are made to the Prime Minister on the d
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The results of an informal poll amongst White sportsmen show that of 101 sportsmen questioned, seventy-nine were in favour of m
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In Nigeria it is disclosed that Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is dead, apparently slain in coup a week earlier.
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Kenneth Kaunda becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia (Zambia).
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Jan Volsckenk (89), well-known South African painter, dies in Riversdal, CP.
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Rescue attempts are put into operation to save 435 trapped mineworkers at the Coalbrook pithead near Sasolburg in the Free Stat
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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) sends a cable to the government of India, urging an appeal to the United Nations on behalf of t
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Axis forces pull out of Tripoli and head back towards Tunisia.
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Hundreds of Zulu men protesting against paying the Natal Poll Tax, threaten to kill their magistrate Mr. R E Dunn
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Danish farmers donate 12 000 boxes of butter to British troops in South Africa.
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The British (no 1) supply column moving up the North Coast towards Eshowe is attacked by about 5000 Zulus as they cross the Nye
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Cetewayo’s impis wipe out British troops at Isandhlwana in one of the worst disasters in British military history, stabbing 127
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Piet Retief completes the manifesto, which sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is publi
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Sir George Napier becomes Governor of the Cape. The date of his arrival at the Cape is given as early in 1938 by Potgieter (19
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Groot Constantia, which shipped wine to Napoleon in exile on the island of St Helena until his death in 1821, concludes another
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A special commission of justice completes the trial of prisoners in the Slagter’s Nek rebellion in the Eastern Cape and confirm
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