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… Piet Retief and a group of Trekkers arrive in Natal. …

… Troops in Zaire run riot, killing the French Ambassador. …

… Comic Relief is launched to combat famine in Africa. …

… Joachim Paulus Schönfeldt, SA sculptor, is born in Pretoria. …

… Heidi Saayman, SA photographer, is born in the Transkei. …

… George Ramagaga, S.A. artist is born in Pimville, Johannesburg. …

… David James Brown, S.A. artist is born in Johannesburg. …

… Narrating Women’s Identities in Cape Town by Rosabelle Boswell …

… John Thomas Baines (54), SA painter, dies in Durban. …

… David George Anosi (77), businessman, dies in Cape Town. …

… The Eastern Province Herald is founded in Port Elizabeth. …

… The Arab League signs a mutual defence treaty in Cairo. …

… British forces under Robert Napier capture Magdala in Ethiopia. …

… Dr James Moroka Address to ANC meeting in Kimberley …

… UNCTAD Conference (26 April – 11 May) starts in Johannesburg. …

… Fourth nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara. …

… Fourth nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara. …

… A SA cricket team arrives in England for a test series. …

… Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker meet Gandhi in Delhi.  …

… Dr Dadoo and Dr Naicker meet Gandhi in Delhi.  …

… J.J. Fouché is inducted as president in Cape Town. …

… Start of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens. …

… Political activities by foreigners are outlawed in South Africa. …

… French detonate their second nuclear bomb in the Sahara. …

… Elizabeth Fouché Vermeulen, SA author, is born in Aberdeen. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 133. … A car bomb kills exile Vernon Nkadimeng in Gaborone, Botswana. …

… Jackie Tindall, SA rugby Springbok is born in Stellenbosch. …

… A new constitution goes into effect in Tanganyika, East Africa. …

… Thomas Patrick Murray, trade unionist, is born in Johannesburg. …

… Ons Klyntji, the first journal in Afrikaans, is published. …