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… Mussolini is greeted with royal honours when he lands in Africa. …

… Hans Aschenborn, SA painter and graphic artist, dies in Kiel, Germany. …

… Legislature of British East Africa holds first session in Nairobi. …

… World War 2: The British and US armies link up in Africa. …

… Heavy fighting in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, leaves seventeen dead. …

… State President C.R. Swart opens Melrose House in Pretoria as a museum. …

… The SA rugby team beats Ireland in Newlands, Cape Town, 24-8. …

… Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, beats Madagascar 1-0 in a home game. …

… France suspends aid to Tunis in response to recent land seizure. …

… The first issue of The Cape Times appears in Cape Town. …

… An extradition agreement between SA and Malawi is published in Pretoria. …

… Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele, SA Minister of Housing, is born in Sophiatown. …

… Emile Serfontein, SA actor, is killed in a road accident near Oudtshoorn. …

… The University of the Orange Free State is founded in Bloemfontein. …

… Hendrik Verwoerd’s Nationalist Party wins election in South Africa. …

… Fleeing violence in Burundi, thousands of Rwandan refugees trek toward …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 134. … An unexploded bomb is found outside ANC offices in Brussels, Belgium. …

… The Trust Bank of Africa Limited is established in Cape Town. …

… The use of Dutch is officially allowed in the Cape parliament. …

… Germany’s main offensive on the Western Front in World War I ends.  …

… Cecil John Rhodes makes his maiden speech in the Cape Assembly. …

… George M. Theal, historian, author and teacher, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town. …

… Dr William Fehr, collector of Africana, is born in Burgersdorp, CC. …

… Pretoria News, 16 April 2004, Today in History … Nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo is placed under restriction in Southern Rhodesia. …

… Sir Francis Cradock (75), Governor of the Cape, dies in England. …

… Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study …

… The role of the Trade Unions in the National Liberation Struggle …

… Retrieving the Pre-Colonial Past: the Hlubi chiefdom in Zululand-Natal …

… Beyond The Abyss - Race and Social Structure in a Future South Africa …

… A study of resettlements in the Eastern Cape: the case of Mdatsane …