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Rev. Modisele, ANC, NECC, is killed in Heidelberg, Transvaal. His burnt body is found with a Bible on it.
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The International Cricket Conference (ICC), after meeting in London on 23 and 24 January, decided to suspend as from 1 April al
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The Sunday Times reports that, after trade unions, churches are considered to be the most respected organisations in the Black
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Prof. Chris Barnard (65), South African heart specialist, marries his third wife, Karin Setzkorn (24).
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Guerrillas advance into Ugandan capital of Kampala as army opposition crumbles, pushing military government to edge of collapse
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The former Minister of Information, Dr. Connie Mulder, resigns his seat in parliament at the insistence of the Prime Minister,
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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith rejects British proposals for a Rhodesian settlement.
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Premier John Vorster decrees that in the future the ‘homelands’ will be allowed to accept direct foreign financial aid.
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The rugby match between South Africa and Wales in Cardiff ends in a draw. The South African team could not beat a single ho
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British troops are flown in to Uganda to suppress an army mutiny over low pay.
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It is announced that efforts by Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Mr. Butler and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the So
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Elsa, the lioness made famous by Joy Adamson’s book Born Free, dies in Kenya.
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Daily News photographer Laurie Bloomfield takes a picture of rioting in Cato Manor, which is immediately published around the w
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Rioting by Africans in Cato Manor (Durban) results in the death of nine policemen.
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South African politician and author of "Jock of the Bushveld," Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, dies at the age of 69.
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Pieter Wenning (47), well-known South African painter, dies in Pretoria.
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Sir David Gill (70), royal astronomer at the Cape and first man in South Africa to photograph the moon, dies in Cape Town.
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The first Boy Scout troop is organised in England by Robert Baden-Powell. The Boy Scouts are active world wide, also in SA.
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Mashonaland and Matabeleland are united as Southern Rhodesia.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Emily Hobhouse, English nurse who visited the Transvaal and Orange Free Sate Republics during the South Afric
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British, under General Warren, surrenders to General Botha at Spioenkop. At least 1 000 British and sixty
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Lugard, with Maxim gun, helps pro-British Protestants defeat pro-French Catholics in Buganda civil war. Kabaka Mwanga flees.
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Capt. Kurt von Francois arrives as leader of a small German regiment in South West Africa to suppress the Herero rebellion.
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Cable communication is established between England and the Cape.
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Presley Chweneyagae, 22, star of the Oscar-winning movie Tsotsi is arrested in Pretoria on a charge of fraud after being trap
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The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Gabon 3-1.
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Louis Schmidt (62), ex Springbok, captain of the Northern Transvaal rugby team and the original ‘Blou Bul’ (Blue Bull), dies in
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The away game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Mauritius ends in a tie with the score 1-1.
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Sifiso Nkabinde, secretary-general of the United Democratic Movement, is shot at Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal.
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