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The SA delegation to the UN walks out during the debate on apartheid, claiming that it is interfering with SA domestic affairs.
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The inquest into Dr. Aggett’s death is adjourned for the third time when police object to the use, as evidence, of a statement
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Edoardo Villa, SA artist, is born in Bergamot. Italy. He studied sculpture in Italy and was sent to Sonderwater in the Transvaa
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Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as first Black prime minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, as the country is briefly known prior to i
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The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth. At Elsies River
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Rebel leader Abd al-Krim, based at Targuist in the Rif mountains of Morocco, surrenders to Marshal Philip Petain, leader of the
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Letter dated 29 January 1952 from the Private Secretary of the Prime Minister, Dr DF Malan to the African National Congress (A.N.C.)
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In return for the release of Jomo Kenyatta, the Kenyan African National Union (ZANU) agrees to take part in negotiations for go
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Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama, on board the Saint Gabriel, and tasked with finding a sea route to India and the Orient, dr
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A protest meeting and march against the proposed name change of the city of Pretoria to Tshwane is held on Church Square, Preto
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The Government’s Custom and Excise office announces that South Africa’s trade surplus widened to R969 million in April from R87
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In response to a car bomb attack in Pretoria which killed nineteen people, the South African air force bombs ANC bases in a Map
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Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, dies at Zandvliet, near Faure,
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On a meeting, twelve days after the first one on which was decided to establish a Dutch newspaper, the name De Burger is decide
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Jan Christian Smuts, who was to become the Union of South Africa’s second prime minister, is born on the farm Bovenplaats near
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In a major move in the process of privatisation in South Africa, the Conversion of Iscor Bill is passed, enabling Iscor to be c
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President Ahmed Ben Bella, of the republic of Algeria, returns home after a 25-day diplomatic tour to the Soviet Union and East
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Fifty-seven (or seventy according to another source) lives are lost when a gale in Table Bay wrecks eleven (News 24 states eigh
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Amy Johnson arrives in England after her record flight of twelve days and fifteen hours from London to Cape Town and back.
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According to a report by the South African Institute of Race Relations, a total of 617 Black persons, of whom it names 558, are
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The European Union, South Africa’s greatest trading partner, says it plans to invest about US$ 210 million in the country in 19
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Brenda Fassi, SA diva, dies in her sleep. She was admitted to the Sunninghill Hospital after an asthma attack two weeks previou
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A broad consensus is reached between the government and the ANC to end Black violence in townships, a day before the ANC’s 9th
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According to the headmaster of Pretoria Boys High School, 70% of the teachers and parents are in favour of opening the school t
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Death of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Famous for his 1,500-mile safari into Central Africa in 1871 to find Dr Livingstone.
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Legislators in Johannesburg take oaths of office and Blacks and Whites sit down together for the first time to govern South Afr
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John Hanning Speke, British explorer who discovered the origin of the Nile and the first European to see Lake Victoria, is born
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Mary Bailey, wife of the SA magnate Sir Abe Bailey, lands on Swartkops airfield, Pretoria, and leaves again for London, to beco
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Under an amendment to the Defence Act the definition of superior officer is changed with the effect that White and Black member
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