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Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev announces a loan of 227 million dollars to the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syr

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The first Comrades marathon (87 km) is run by Vic Clapham and his friends who initiated it as a reunion.

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Joseph Langley Levy, editor of the Sunday Times and leading cultural figure in Johannesburg, is born in Liverpool, England.

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Rampant Afrikaner Volksfront leaders sweep aside an attempt by former SADF chief Constand Viljoen and his moderate generals to

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6 000 teachers from Soweto and Alexandra begin a strike because their grievances are not being addressed. The strike spread to

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The South African Journal, with Thomas Pringle as editor, and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift are established in Cape Town.

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A nationwide strike shuts down most of Zimbabwe’s economy and the government threatens to punish those who encouraged the prote

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UK students start a campaign to force British universities and colleges to divest up to R650m in South Africa.

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President Samora Machel of Mozambique closes his frontier with Rhodesia, seizes all Rhodesian assets in the country and places

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Madi Phala, artist, designer, educator and original herd-boy, was fatally stabbed&nbsp;near his home in Langa, Cape Town.

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At least fifty Congolese militiamen are killed by South African and Pakistani United Nations peacekeeping troops in a bloody gu

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Rwandan Hutu rebels, claiming they oppose American and British support of the Tutsi government in Rwanda, abduct eight foreign

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Drs Andries Treurnicht and Ferdi Hartzenberg resign from their positions in the National Party Government. Date is also given a

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Archibald Jacob Gumede, Secretary of the Natal African Congress, 1951-60, and President of the United Democratic Front, 1983, i

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An Anglican priest, the Reverend David Russell, is sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for defying his banning order and attendin

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Prime Minister Vorster announces that the new Coloured Persons Representative Council will be comprised of forty elected and tw

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Separate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is passed after enlarging the Senate and the Appellate Court. It removes Coloure

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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe (54), founder member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress, dies in the Kimberle

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South Africa signs a treaty with the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland amending the trade agreement of 16 May 1960.

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Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer, political activist and husband of Victoria Mxenge, is born in King William’s To

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J.P. (Pieter) de Lange, chairman of the Afrikanerbroederbond, and head of the commission of the Human Sciences Research Council

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The National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industries (Nafcoc) commits itself to the promotion of a free-market sys

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Mabelindile Archie Luhlabo, chair of SA Teemane Co., Johannesburg, director of the Mineworkers Investment Co. and also of Globa

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Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (now the University of

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WW1: Battle of Verdun in France begins with a massive German artillery bombardment. It is the longest and bloodiest battle

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Two car bombs explode near Algiers, killing twelve and wounding thirty-five during the final hours of Ramadan celebrations.

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In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k

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Old Mutual announces its intention to note shares on the London stock exchange and four stock exchanges in Africa.

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The government decides to close The Post and The Sunday Post because they have become media for communist viewpoints.

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Gazankulu homeland holds elections for members of its legislative assembly, which has forty-three elected and forty-three nomin

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Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev announces a loan of 227 million dollars to the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syr

The first Comrades marathon (87 km) is run by Vic Clapham and his friends who initiated it as a reunion.

Joseph Langley Levy, editor of the Sunday Times and leading cultural figure in Johannesburg, is born in Liverpool, England.

Rampant Afrikaner Volksfront leaders sweep aside an attempt by former SADF chief Constand Viljoen and his moderate generals to

6 000 teachers from Soweto and Alexandra begin a strike because their grievances are not being addressed. The strike spread to

The South African Journal, with Thomas Pringle as editor, and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Tijdschrift are established in Cape Town.

A nationwide strike shuts down most of Zimbabwe’s economy and the government threatens to punish those who encouraged the prote

UK students start a campaign to force British universities and colleges to divest up to R650m in South Africa.

President Samora Machel of Mozambique closes his frontier with Rhodesia, seizes all Rhodesian assets in the country and places

Madi Phala, artist, designer, educator and original herd-boy, was fatally stabbed&amp;nbsp;near his home in Langa, Cape Town.

At least fifty Congolese militiamen are killed by South African and Pakistani United Nations peacekeeping troops in a bloody gu

Rwandan Hutu rebels, claiming they oppose American and British support of the Tutsi government in Rwanda, abduct eight foreign

Drs Andries Treurnicht and Ferdi Hartzenberg resign from their positions in the National Party Government. Date is also given a

Archibald Jacob Gumede, Secretary of the Natal African Congress, 1951-60, and President of the United Democratic Front, 1983, i

An Anglican priest, the Reverend David Russell, is sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for defying his banning order and attendin

Prime Minister Vorster announces that the new Coloured Persons Representative Council will be comprised of forty elected and tw

Separate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is passed after enlarging the Senate and the Appellate Court. It removes Coloure

Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe (54), founder member and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress, dies in the Kimberle

South Africa signs a treaty with the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland amending the trade agreement of 16 May 1960.

Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, civil rights lawyer, political activist and husband of Victoria Mxenge, is born in King William’s To

J.P. (Pieter) de Lange, chairman of the Afrikanerbroederbond, and head of the commission of the Human Sciences Research Council

The National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industries (Nafcoc) commits itself to the promotion of a free-market sys

Mabelindile Archie Luhlabo, chair of SA Teemane Co., Johannesburg, director of the Mineworkers Investment Co. and also of Globa

Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (now the University of

WW1: Battle of Verdun in France begins with a massive German artillery bombardment. It is the longest and bloodiest battle

Two car bombs explode near Algiers, killing twelve and wounding thirty-five during the final hours of Ramadan celebrations.

In the bloodiest day so far in Egypt’s Islamic insurgency, police shoot to death fourteen suspected militants, and extremists k

Old Mutual announces its intention to note shares on the London stock exchange and four stock exchanges in Africa.

The government decides to close The Post and The Sunday Post because they have become media for communist viewpoints.

Gazankulu homeland holds elections for members of its legislative assembly, which has forty-three elected and forty-three nomin

Madi Phala, artist, designer, educator and original herd-boy, was fatally stabbed near his home in Langa, Cape Town.