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Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, dies in Bloemfontein.
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The Reverend Daniel Lindley, missionary and minister to the Voortrekkers, is born in Ten Mile Creek, Pennsylvania.
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The SA rugby team loses the third test in Sydney 12-19 and the series against Australia 2-1.
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The Afrikaanse Taalen Kultuurvereniging (ATKV), Afrikaans cultural organisation whose aim was to promote Afrikaans and the well
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Sir Christian Ludolph Neethling Felling (48), SA born manager of the railways in Kenya and Uganda, dies.
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An explosion takes place at the SAP Soweto Branch Headquarters offices, Roodepoort, Johannesburg, injuring five policemen and t
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Ruth First, journalist, academic and anti-apartheid activist, is assassinated in Maputo when opening a letter bomb addressed t
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Ruth First, journalist, academic and anti-apartheid activist, is assassinated in Maputo when opening a letter bomb addressed t
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Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, dies in Bloemfontein.
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Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle, interpreter, insurance agent, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria. He was w
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South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n
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Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, dies in Honeydew, Johannesbu
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City Press reports that Wonke Maqubela and Neliswa Dyandyi, accused in a necklace trial in Stutterheim, Eastern Cape.
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The leader of two independent ‘homelands’, Chief K. Matanzima and President Mangope of Bophuthatswana, support Mr. Botha’s call
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Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle, interpreter, insurance agent, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria. He was w
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Horatio Isaiah Budlwana (Bud) Mbelle, interpreter, insurance agent, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria. He was w
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South African President P. W. Botha, in his ‘Rubicon Speech’, rejects Western pleas to abolish apartheid, and declares, ‘I am n
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Hester Elizabeth Cornelius, national organiser and branch secretary of the Garment Workers’ Union, dies in Honeydew, Johannesbu
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Jeremy Cronin, South African Communist Party politician and former political prisoner in the Pretoria Maximum Security Prison,
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Foreign ministers of Organisation of African Unity approve plan to end rebellion and political strife in Congo.
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Foreign ministers of Organisation of African Unity approve plan to end rebellion and political strife in Congo.
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During the lnkatha Freedom Party (IFP) submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi apolo
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference
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Two people die and forty-two are injured in a bomb explosion outside a shopping centre in Witbank, Tvl.
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Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius), ambitious and charismatic leader of the Zion Christian Church,
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Rival political and ethnic groups riot in Rwanda, killing at least five people ahead of peace talks.
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Nation-wide protests against and boycotts of the celebration of twenty years of the South African Republic.
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Salisbury announces that Rhodesian troops have captured and occupied the town of Mapai, 100km inside Mozambique.
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In Cape Town the new Union flag is hoisted and “Die Stem” sung for the first time.
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