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The government, for the first time, releases the official list of all detained under the Preventive Detention clause of the Int
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The Defence Amendment Bill, making provision for the employment of South African conscripted troops anywhere outside South Afri
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Dr. Albert Stals (71), SA Minister of Health, dies in Cape Town.
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Speaking to the House of Assembly, SA Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd states that territorial separation is not the essential part
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In protest against anti-US campaigns in Ghana, the US recalls its ambassador.
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The South African government informs the United Nations Secretary-General that it is unable to agree to a visit by the group of
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A White family is killed in their caravan whilst camping on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei. Forty African
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France’s President Charles de Gaulle calls for independence for Algeria.
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Gamel Abdel Nasser is formally nominated to become the first president of the new United Arab Republic.
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Joachim Paulus Schönfeldt, SA sculptor, is born in Pretoria.
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Nine Mau Mau prisoners, serving life sentences, escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria.
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Theo Wendt (76), first conductor of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra, first musical director of the Broadcasting Organisation a
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The Rev. Mr Josephus Johannes Kuhn, poet and versifier of the first Afrikaans Psalms, dies.
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Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys (Jannie), Chief of the South African Defence Force, 1985, and Member of the State Security Council,
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At a mass gathering in Johannesburg during the Rand Revolt, a proposal to establish a provisional republican government is acce
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World War 1: Gen. Louis Botha leaves for South West Africa to take control of the Union troops who would conquer the area from
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Herman Charles Bosman, author of among others Mafeking Road and creator of the character “Oom Schalk Lourens”, is born in Kuils
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Redvers Buller conquers Vaalkrans at the Tugela river, but shelling from both sides continues and the Br
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The Congo state is established as a personal possession of Belgium’s King Leopold II.
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Gabriel Adolf Ode is born in Schiedam, the Netherlands. Ode was the acting secretary of education in South Africa in 1891. He w
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Charles Barter, writer, magistrate and editor of The Natal Guardian, marries Emma Butler in Ireland.
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Frederich Martin Joseph Welwitsch, discoverer of the welwitschia plant in the Namib, is born in Austria.
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The 25th automated teller machine (ATM) this year is badly damaged after it is blown up in a shopping centre in Orange farm. Th
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Top finance officials from seven of the world’s richest countries (the G7 countries), open a two-day meeting in London that, wh
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Business Day announces that Deutsche Bank has taken the lead among foreign banks operating in SA by selling a 25% stake in its
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It is reported that a $650 flamethrower, invented by Charl Fourie, is available for installation on cars to protect against car
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The police in Zimbabwe start a search for William Player (64), heir to the British John Payer Tobacco Company, who disappeared
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Six men suffocate in Vereeniging after being locked up by robbers in the airtight compartment of a meat truck.
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Dave Richardson (38), South African wicket-keeper, announces his retirement from cricket after 42 test matches.
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