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An Avro York aircraft, en route from Johannesburg to London, lands in Nairobi, Kenya, after the machine was damaged when a swar
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
Eugene Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1941. After matriculating he joined the South African…
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Bosman de Kock, broadcaster of the Afrikaans service of the BBC, London, who was appointed director of the Performing Arts Coun
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Generals Smuts and Liebenberg captures Modderfontein, Transvaal.
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Marthinus Johannes (Tinus) de Jong, SA landscape painter, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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David Draper, prospector and geologist is born in Cape Town. He discovered underground water at Zuurbekom in 1898, whereby freq
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The Groote Kerk in Cape Town is inaugurated.
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The Rev. Hendrik Carel Vos Leibbrandt, archivist and librarian, is born in Cape Town.
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Jacobus Nicolaas Boshof, second president of the Orange Free State (1855-1859), is born in Swellendam, CC.
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World Leprosy Day: Hundreds of representatives from leprosy non-governmental organisations gather in South Africa from 30 Janua
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The Sunday Independent reports that the special mixture prescribed by Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, the minister of health, for fig
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The Somerset Mall 10km race is won by Thembelani Zola (Mr Price) in an excellent time of 30,4, followed closely by team mate Ne
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A car bomb explodes in Algiers, killing at least twenty people and injuring about sixty in the worst bombing during a three-yea
EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
Clayton Sithole was the last political activist to die in detention. He died in John Vorster Square police station just 12 days before the release of former…
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Hansie Cronje gets a pair in 2nd 1st-class game (OFS vs. N Tvl).
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Patrick McCall, member of Stander’s bank robber gang, is killed by police in Stander’s hideout in Houghton, Johannesburg.
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Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag in Maputo, Mozambique.
Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag, an attack by the South African army on the ANC and PAC in Matola, a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique…
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White Rhodesians approve new constitution to eventually give Blacks control of the nation.
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The United Nations adopts resolution 385 in which guidelines was laid down for an internationally accepted settlement of the So
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Dr. Nicolaas Diederichs, minister of finance, is elected as the National Party’s candidate to succeed State President Jim Fouch
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The United Party controlled Johannesburg City Council announces the dismantling of petty apartheid practices.
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Mr Denis Howell, the British Minister dealing with sport, says in the House of Commons that if the MCC selects Basil D’Oliviera
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Henry Charles Christopher (Harry) Wolhuter, game ranger in the Sabi Game Reserve (now Kruger National Park) from 1902-1946, die
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UN General Assembly adopts Asian-African resolution calling on Portugal to halt repressive measures against Angola.
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The General Assembly of the United Nations calls on South Africa to reconsider its apartheid policy and adopts resolution 1016
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Paul Emile Rossouw, the first athlete in the world to jump higher than 2.13 m at the age of 16, is born in Springs.
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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and trade union leader, leaves SA and settles in England. He states that his position in
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Martial law is imposed in Egypt as King Farouk dismisses the premier Nahas Pasha and his Wafdist government.
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Mohandas Gandhi is assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in New Delhi, India.
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