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Agreement signed between Britain and Rhodesia to give Blacks greater political rights which should eventually lead to majority
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Forces of the White Rhodesian government attacks nationalist guerrilla bases at Tembue and Chimoio in Mozambique, killing alleg
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Officials cancel the Miss World pageant in Nigeria for fear of riots and move it instead to London.
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Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt, and China’s Chiang Kai-shek agree in Cairo, Egypt,
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Eric Hendrik Louw, SA minister of finance and first ambassador to the US, is born in Jacobsdal, OFS.
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Thomas Mtobi Mapikela, businessman, politician and speaker of the African National Congress (ANC) who was the first chairperson
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Nadine Gordimer, SA author and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, is born in Springs.
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Esther Susanna Mentz, soprano, actress and pioneer in various cultural fields including the first Afrikaans films, dies while v
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George Andrew Manuel, scholar, author and one of the first Coloured journalists in SA, is born in Johannesburg.
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The Burundian president and the CNDD/FDD rebel leader mark formal end to the ten-year civil war.
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King Farouk, Egypt, demands the "total and immediate evacuation" of all British troops from the Suez Canal Zone.
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The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) White Paper, put before parliament, calls for an expeditious programme to en
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Thirty-eight African and Asian delegations table a draft resolution in the Trusteeship Committee asking for an effective United
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Taiwanese Foreign Minister John Chang Hsiaoyen visits South Africa and holds talks with President Mandela. The President insis
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Allison Wessels George (Mhlongo) Champion, trade union leader, Black politician and businessman, is born at Sans Souci Mission
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Anglo-Boer War 2: President Paul Kruger of the ZAR and Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession in the Netherlands.
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Speaking at the International Conference on Aids and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) in Abuja, Nigeria, Madik
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General Christiaan Beyers, former Speaker of the Transvaal Parliament and Commandant-General of the Union Defence Force, drowns
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Britain announces intention to intervene in the Congo Free State if Belgian and German atrocities against natives continues.
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Egypt brokers an understanding to halt Israeli-Palestinian violence and move toward a peace accord, announced just hours after
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About 25 000 people in Johannesburg are unemployed and the government announces that it has no jobs available.
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The Taiwanese foreign minister announces the recall of the Taiwanese ambassador and the immediate suspension of most Taiwanese
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Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act No 34, providing for investigation towards the establishment of as complete
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A Hammanskraal policeman, Richard Motasi, an alleged informer for the Zimbabwean security police, and his wife Irene is murdere
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Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and African nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo sign an agreement to start full constitutional n
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The Government closes all lines of communication with five districts in Pondoland and reintroduces emergency regulations for th
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Goolam Mohamed Karim, chairman of the Islamic Medical Association, Eastern Transvaal branch who wrote several books and present
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Renosterkop takes place between forces under Major-General Paget and Gen. B. Viljoen.
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As result of investigations into the Port Elizabeth explosions, Security Police arrest and charge Robert H. Strachan with causi
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