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A fire breaks out on a crowded train travelling from Cairo to Luxor in southern Egypt, killing 373 people and injuring sixty in
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The Citizen reports that released ANC leader, Nelson Mandela, and his wife, Winnie, were granted passports to visit the ANC lea
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The ANC and the South African government make further concessions in an attempt to draw the FA into an inclusive constitutional
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Southern Rhodesian Minister of Railways H.W. Moffat visits Cape Town to discuss the building of Beit Bridge over the Limpopo Ri
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The government of South Africa and the African National Congress announce an agreement on terms of the ANC’s decision to suspen
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Suppression of Communism Further Amendment Bill is approved by 106 votes to forty at its third reading. It is made retrospectiv
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South Africa signs an agreement with Namibia relating to defence and civil aviation in Walvis Bay and signs a bilateral air ser
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James Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry who strove to improve the image and operation of th
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South Africa and Lesotho issue a joint statement that their respective territories are not to be used for acts of terrorism aga
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Senator Owen Horwood announces a 36% rise in proposed defence expenditure, the defence budget being raised to R948, 122,000. Th
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American Dr Jonas E. Salk announces new vaccine to immunise against polio, with the aid of which polio has been largely eradica
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Dr. Connie Mulder, in effect, accuses President Vorster of lying and states that the decision to found and finance ‘The Citizen
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Pieter Hackius (also Hakkius) succeeds Jacob Borghorst as commander at the Cape. This date appears to be the correct one, not 2
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Scores of people are believed injured when police fire teargas into a crowd in Soweto during a march to the Soweto City Council
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Nine policemen are to be charged with murder after the findings of the Goldstone Commission of Inquiry into the Sebokeng shooti
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The Minister of Water Affairs announces an ambitious scheme to harness the Orange River for power and irrigation at a cost of R
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling, summoned from Cape Town by Lord Roberts, arrives in Bloemfontein to join th
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Former South African Supreme Court judge, Judge J.F. Ludorf, claims he has evidence that two hired German killers were paid to
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Makhaya Ntini becomes the first Black SA cricket player to play in a five-day test. He takes 2 wickets in Cape Town.
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Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini hold a meeting at the Brenner Pass during which the Italian dictator agrees to join in German
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A Defence Force spokesman confirms in Cape Town that South Africa is to stop supplying the United States and Britain with intel
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Four people, believed to be members of the ANC, are arrested in Gaborone, Botswana, and charged with the illegal possession of
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An earth tremor measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale strikes South Africa with its epicentre believed to be at the Hartebeesfonte
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In response to a question by Mr R Jankielsohn (DP) in the National Assembly, President Mbeki replies that he spent 300 days in
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Maropoli Mapalakanye, an organiser for MWASA, is reported missing. No reply is received from the minister of law and order to a
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General Jan Smuts declares martial law in the Transvaal after mobilising the active citizen force in a bid to quell the dispute
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Following a statement issued by the ANC earlier the day, the Tshwane City Council votes to retain the name, Pretoria, for the c
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Violence erupts when 50 000 (or 100 000 according to police) residents from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and areas in the Od
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The Defence Amendment Bill, first published on 31 January 1977, becomes law. Under it the State President is empowered to invok
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