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The Conservative Party threatens to stage a tax revolt and television license boycott in an attempt to force the government to

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The Battle of Vechtkop (Vegkop), near present day Heilbron, FS, between the Voortrekkers and the Ndebele takes place. Kalipi at

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Adam Kok III, Griqua chief and third legitimate son of Griqua chief Adam Kok II, is born in Griqualand West.

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The Afrikaans Language and Culture Association, ATKV, gives former president F.W. de Klerk its highest award for having the cou

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Conservative Party politician Clive Derby-Lewis and Polish immigrant Janusz Walus are sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to de

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Thomas Sankara, head of the Military Council of the Revolution in Burkina Faso, is assassinated in a military coup and replaced

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The Minister of Sport, Dr Piet Koornhof, announces a relaxation of apartheid rules for sport and declares the government is wor

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Gana Makabeni, trade union leader and member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the

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Zoli Nhlanhla Rigney Kunene, commercial director of Kunene Bros Holdings and chair of other Kunene companies, is born in Boksbu

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Overwhelmed by rising waters on the Niger River, officials open the floodgates of two major dams, submerging 400 villages and l

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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade, eleven years and one day after

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Chief Lennox Sebe, Chief Minister of the Ciskei, accepts independence in principle, and wins endorsement for his stand at a ral

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The Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster, announces at the National Party Congress incidences on the border of Zambia and the Caprivi S

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At least ten people are killed and thirty injured eleven seriously in a bus accident at Botha’s Hill north of Durban.

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Hans Jürgen Aschenborn, librarian, director of the State Library and receiver of the Sailis Award for Bibliography in 1985, di

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President Bill Clinton of the US proclaims the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), naming thirty-four sub-Saharan African

Some Observations on the South African Literary Tradition and the case of Nadine Gordimer: A Dissident´ s View by Dr Selim Y Gool

10 things you didn’t know about ‘Mandela’s’ Robben Island by Christine Mungai (Mail and Guardian), 17 March 2015, South Africa

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A surprise top-level military meeting between Angola, South Africa and Cuba ends in Cape Verde. The talks follow reports that a

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The last six SA mercenaries from the attempted Seychelles coup are pardoned, freed and arrive in Johannesburg. The Minister of

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Sonwabo Eddie Funde, businessman and director on several boards, is born in Johannesburg. He achieved an MSc in Electrical Engi

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Kenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964.

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The trial of Dr Allan Boesak on thirty-two charges of theft and fraud starts in the Cape Supreme Court.

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The trial of Dr Allan Boesak on thirty-two charges of theft and fraud starts in the Cape Supreme Court.

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John Vorster announces that while Dr. Connie Mulder will remain Minister of Plural Relations and Development, the Bureau for Na

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John Vorster announces that while Dr. Connie Mulder will remain Minister of Plural Relations and Development, the Bureau for Na

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Violent ethnic clashes between Zulus and others, involving circa 10,000 Blacks in running fights start, causing chaos in Soweto

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Nick du Toit and thirteen other suspected mercenaries go on trial in Equatorial Guinea on account of a failed coup attempt. A f

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The SA minister of posts and telegraphs complains that Radio Tanzania’s broadcasts from Dar-es-Salaam are interfering with broa

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A 22-nation conference has just ended with a plan for international control of the Suez Canal and the Australian prime minister