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Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa is declared an illegal org
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The final report by Justice Snyman on the Paarl Riots is submitted to Parliament. It analyses the main causes of the riots.
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The first Chinese arrive in SA to relieve the shortage of unskilled mineworkers. Within a year there were 34 000 and the numb
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The South African Parliament votes to amend the Internal Security Act No. 74 of 1982. Police will in future need the permission
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Britain annexes the rest of Zululand. Dinuzulu is subsequently banished to St Helena. This date is given as 19 May 1887 by
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Former Liberian president Charles Taylor, whose war crimes trial before the Special Court of Sierra Leone is to be held in the
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Petition to the Governor of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, from the Traskeian Territories General Council, June 21, 1909
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The Minister of Justice, B.J. Vorster, states at a Nationalist Party meeting that he is not prepared to lift the ninety-day det
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At the end of a damaging six-day strike of cabin crew and ground staff, SOUTH African Airways (SAA) undertakes to improve the w
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South Africa has held up supplies of British weapons to Lesotho and the UK has complained several times about the delays, offic
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The government is reported to have paid the family of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, R65, 000 in settlement of claims
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The name of the Mid-City Library (Sammy Marks), city library of Pretoria, is changed to Eskia Mphahlele Library and the Sammy M
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Trevor Wittes, arrested after the murder on four people in George and pretending to be paralysed after being shot by police, is
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A Korean Air DC-10 crashes in heavy fog while attempting to land at Tripoli airport in Libya, killing eighty-two people, four o
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Senior ANC member, ‘Mac’ Maharaj and over forty other members of the ANC and the SACP, are detained for allegedly attempting to
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The first ‘Burgerspond’, named after Pres. T.F. Burgers and made of gold from Pilgrim’s Rest, is handed in London to J.J. Pratt
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In Sierra Leone, dozens of rebels, including children, surrender to UN forces in the eastern city of Kenema and turn over their
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SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
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Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-’Owhali, an Osama bin Laden follower, is sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 1998 bombing
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Judicial Matters Amendment Act No 143 amending the Investigation of Serious Economic Offences Act No 117 of 1991 in order to re
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WWII: The 6th SA Armoured Division, having reached the watershed of Castiglione dei Pepoli in Italy, pushes forward to take Mon
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The Directors of the Dutch East India Company (Heeren XVII or Lords Seventeen) propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possib
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The Council of Ministers of the OAU issues a resolution calling for an urgent meeting of the Security Council to examine the is
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Marshal Louis-Hubert Lyautey, the first French Resident General of Morocco, dies in France. His body is to be interred at Rabat
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A South African team of ninety-five leaves for the Barcelona Olympics, the first in which the country has been allowed to parti
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In reaction to further deaths of people in police detention, ten policemen have been suspended from duty and six have been char
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Jesse Engle, pioneer missionary is born. In 1898 he led the first party of five missionaries to Africa under sponsorship of the
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The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Free State government is to dispense with the idea of a capital, and they become a government ‘in the fie
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