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Jacob Daniël du Toit (Totius), poet and Afrikaans Bible translator, is born in the Paarl vicinity, CC.
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe lashes out at international journalists and foreign governments, threatening to ban them fro
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Dr. Hendrik J. van Eck (67), father of SA industry and chairman of the Industrial Development Corporation, dies.
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William Frederick Nkomo, medical doctor, educationist and community leader who tried to bring different races closer together a
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French government uses fighter planes and tanks in attempt to end insurrection by European rightists in Algeria.
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A meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), African People’s Organisation (APO), Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaa
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SA wins the third cricket test against New Zealand in Wellington with 8 wickets and the series with 1-0.
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President Marien Ngouabi of the Congo is assassinated in a military coup and replaced by Colonel Yhombi-Opango.
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The South African Industrial Federation (SAIF) calls off the Miners’ strike and the workers stream to work.
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Martha Helena Cillié, teacher and headmistress whose greatest achievement was her contribution to the education of girls
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Nicolaas Jacobus de Wet, politician and Chief Justice of the Union of South Africa, dies in Pretoria.
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Ephraim Mojalefa (Kid) Ngatane, artist, teacher, musician and boxer, dies of tuberculosis at the Barangwanath Hospital, Soweto.
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Frank Moema, reverend and community leader, disappears after allegedly being abducted by men in camouflage gear. Coleman, M. (e
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First commercial air route is established when Alan Cobham does a return flight between London and Cape Town.
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A methane-gas explosion at Gencor’s Ermelo mines kills thirty-four miners and injures at least another sixteen.
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South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and his counterparts from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regio
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Reuben Tholakele (Thola) Caluza, Zulu composer and choir master who popularised Zulu folk music, dies in Durban.
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A Pretoria businessman Ian Macfarlane, his wife Francis and his father Boyd, disappear on a helicopter flight between Plettenbe
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Sir William Cornwallis Harris, traveller, hunter and renowned artist, arrives in Algoa Bay to begin a hunting expedition
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Marthinus Cornelius van Schoor, inventor of the single-line train control system and cultural leader, is born
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Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial by Laurence Piper, March 2014
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Legislature and Governance for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 30 March 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
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Controversial French lawyer, nicknamed ‘the devil’s advocate’, whose clients included war criminals and terrorists by Angelique Chrisafis
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South Africa’s Western Front Great War Memory and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission by Jacques de Vries
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Political prisoners and victims still waiting for TRC closure by Phillip De Wet, 6 March 2015, South Africa
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Contributions of Nordic States to the oppressed people of Southern Africa and Frontline States by E.S. Reddy
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Declaration of the International Conference on Women and Children under Apartheid, Arusha, Tanzania, 7 to 10 May 1985
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APDUSA Views - Issue No 38: The Violation of the Freedoms of Thought, Conscience and Expression, January 1991
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APDUSA Views - Issue No 37: The Greed and Waste that is Capitalism by Alie Fataar, December 1990
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