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… Jacomina (Minnie) Postma, early Afrikaans author, is born in Ficksburg, OFS. …

… Grace Millicent, social worker and community leader, dies in Cape Town. …

… The Springbok rugby team loses 24-27 against New Zealand in Johannesburg. …

… August Gerdener (86), theologian and historian, dies in Stellenbosch. …

… Gertrude Shope, leader of the ANC Women’s League, is born in Johannesburg. …

… Habib Ali Bourguiba bans the wearing of mini-skirts in Tunisia. …

… The corner stone of the Royal Observatory is laid in Cape Town.  …

… Women and Resistance in South Africa by Cherryl Walker, 1982, South Africa …

… Fearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, arrives in Cape Town. …

… Hendrik Becker (61), commissioner at the Cape, dies in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. …

… Egyptian and Moroccan troops land in Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraqi invasion. …

… ”What Do the People Say?” Editorial in Abantu-Batho, January 26, 1928 …

… ”The Race Problem”. Article in The Guardian by R. V. Selope Thema, September, 1922 …

… The 12th Olympic Games, the first after WWII, starts in London. …

… Wopko Jensma, SA poet and graphic designer, is born in Ventersdorp, Transvaal. …

… . Randburg: Macdonald Purnell, p. 301; Gastrow: Who's Who in South African Politics, v. 2 … Nelson Mandela is arrested in Cedara, a small town just past Howick, Natal. …

… Flooding in the Southern Cape causes severe damage to roads and homes. …

… Hendrick Becker, commissioner at the Cape, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 133. … Joe Gqabi, chief ANC representative, is killed in Harare by a car bomb. …

… Trimen (75), curator of the South African Museum, dies in London. …

… The Battle of Berea takes place in the OVS and Basotho War. …

… The African Renaissance and the Use of African Languages in Tertiary Education …

… The Natal home front in the Great War (1914–1918) by P. S. Thompson …

… Obama speech at Nelson Mandela’s national memorial in Soweto, 10 December 2013 …

… Indian women’s demonstration in Pretoria on Human Rights Day, 10 December 1963 …

… Poqo and Rural Resistance in the Transkei, 1960 - 1965 by Tom Lodge …

… African Manpower Statistics for the British Forces in East Africa, 1914-1918 …

… Boddy-Evan, A. ‘This Day in African History: 15 July’ , from About African History, … UN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis …

… Then and Now: Activism in Manenberg, 1980 to 2010 by Julian A Jacobs …

… An All African Convention Publication: Self Rule in the Transkei, May 1962 …