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The appointment of the group of experts to examine the problem of apartheid, in terms of the United Nations Security Council re
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Dr H.F. Verwoerd rejects ‘White leadership with justice’ and announces the dawn of a new era that would end discrimination in S
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King Farouk removes Prime Minister Mustafa Nahhas for failing to keep the peace. Ali Mahir replaces him.
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Sokhaya Charles Nkosi, SA graphic artist, is born in Durban. He was employed by the SABC (1982-1986) and is since then senior
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Dr Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini Zuma, South African Minister of Foreign Affairs, is born in Natal.
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Dr Irvin Khoza (The Iron Duke) who was awarded Kick Off’s accolade for the Personality of the Decade for his contribution to SA
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WWII: SA prime minister, General Jan Smuts, asks parliament’s approval to send troops to Europe, contrary to his promise in 193
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Petition by Black women against carrying of passes in the Orange Free State.
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The Reverend Adriaan Jacob Begemann is inducted as the first pastor of the ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk’.
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David Rattray, KwaZulu historian is murdered at his home at Fugitive’s Drift Lodge. It immediately becomes world news and affec
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A fire breaks out on Table Mountain after a British tourist allegedly flights a lit cigarette out of a car window.
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Arriving at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel says economic growth would top
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The Cape High Court sets aside the department of environmental affairs’ decision to allow the construction of a pebble bed modu
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Judge Johann Kriegler, chairman of the Independent Election Commission, resigns after allegations of tension between the Commis
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SA signs joint communiqué on the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Kingdom of Cambodia.
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Rebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishuh.
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The Star reports that a SARWHU shop steward, who went on a thirty-three-day hunger strike to back his demand either to be charg
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The National Resistance Army takes over the Ugandan capital of Kampala.
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The South African Indian Council (SAIC) calls for a referendum in the Indian community on the acceptability of the Constitution
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At a special press conference it is announced that a senior South African naval officer, commanding Simonstown dockyard, Commod
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Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
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Dr Jan Bouws, Dutch and SA musicologist and composer, dies in Tygerberg, Cape Town.
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Amnesty International’s detailed report on human rights violations in South Africa is banned.
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Egypt is placed under martial law in response to wide-spread riots against the British.
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De Villiers Bester Lamprecht, the first South African to complete the mile in less than four minutes, is born in Prince Albert.
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A heat wave hits South Africa and temperatures soar in places to up to 44,4 Centigrade.
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Elza Dziomba, S.A sculptor, is born in Dt’Eylau, West Prussia, Germany. He died in 1970, in Johannesburg.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Ben Viljoen and seven men are ambushed and captured by the British. His pocket book saves his life b
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Gen. Christiaan de Wet, accompanied by pres. M.T. Steyn, starts his journey at Doornberg, near Winburg, to invade the Cape Colo
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