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The Federasie van Rapportryerskorpse (Federation of Dispatch-riders) is founded, to promote the culture, interests and identity
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Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong’o and his wife are attacked by armed men in the capital Nairobi.
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Two members of the Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and a supporter of the Konserwatiewe Party (Conservative Party), die when
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Yacoob Mahomed Makda, politician, executive member of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, and member of several boar
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Radio Maputo reports that according to South Africa’s Security Minister, Sidney Mufamadi, Mozambique, Swaziland and South Afric
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Security forces arrest fifty armed Islamic extremists and seize an arms cache containing 130 bombs in Algiers.
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The Nasionale Bouvereniging (National Building Society) is founded as result of a joint effort of Volkskas and Sanlam.
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Reginald Rooseveldt MacIntyre Ndumiso Cingo, evangelist and educationist who was headmaster of the first secondary day school f
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British forces capture Cairo and the French begin withdrawing from Egypt in one of the Napoleonic Wars.
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British Somaliland becomes independent and five days later merge with Italian Somaliland to become the Somali Republic.
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The Freedom Charter is adopted in Kliptown, bringing the ANC together with Indian, Coloured and White organisations.
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Six persons are killed and eighteen injured when gunmen open fire on a crowded commuter train in Soweto.
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Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle, interpreter, insurance agent, community leader and politician, is born in Burgersdorp, CC
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The Cotonou Agreement, a trade and aid framework, of which SA is a member, is signed in Cotonou, Benin.
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Hermanus Stephanus Bosman, minister of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk and champion for Christian National Schools (CNO –skol
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James Arthur Calata, Anglican clergyman and African National Congress (ANC) leader, is born in Rabula, Keiskammahoek, Eastern C
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Army officer Houari Boumedienne organises new government in Algeria after ousting and arresting President Ahmed Ben Bella.
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Sir Christoffel Joseph Brand, advocate, journalist and first Speaker of the Cape Parliament, is born in Simonstown.
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Muntu Khanyile, Joseph Mthembu, Sandile Khawula and Russel Mngomezulu, all Chesterville Youth Organisation members, are shot de
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Stephanus Schoeman (80), commandant-general in the Soutpansberg area and later of the ZAR, dies in Pretoria.
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The game between the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, and Denmark ends in a tie with the score 1-1.
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The Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation by which the forty-two-member KaNgwane Legislative Assembly is dissolved, and,
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Dr Louis Luyt, SA businessman, politician and former president of the SA Rugby Football Union, is born.
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Revolutionary Secrets: Technology’s Role in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement by R. Kelly Garrett and Paul N. Edwards
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Report on proceedings and resolutions of the Annual Conference of the African National Congress, January 4-5, 1926 [Extracts]
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Anton (Anthony) Muziwakhe Lembede (born in January 1914), teacher, lawyer, politician and principal architect of African nation
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Professor Maarten Christiaan Roode, first music professor of the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education and co
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Dorothea Möller-Malan, SA missionary and writer, is born in Winburg, OFS, as Dorothea Catherina Stoffelina Malan.
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President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt creates a crisis by nationalising the British and French-owned Suez Canal.
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