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Tobias Ballot Muller, SA youth leader, minister of religion and champion of Afrikaans, dies in Philippolis during the influenza
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Tobias Ballot Muller, SA youth leader, minister of religion and champion of Afrikaans, dies in Philippolis during the influenza
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Document - 133 ‘.Editorial: The Bloemfontein Trade Union Conference and the Industrial Conciliation Act”, The Militant Worker, October-November 1945
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For Mandela’s 80th, Parties And Talk Of A Wedding by Suzanne Daley (The New York TImes), 18 July 1998
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Statement (Jointly With Chief A. J. Luthuli and Peter Brown) Appealing To the British People To Boycott South Africa, December 1959
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Shantytown women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent to demolish their Dobsonville, Soweto, homes. However, the wom
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Manuel Pinto da Costa becomes the first president of the newly independent Democratic Republic of Sâo Tomé and Príncip
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Col. David Harris, nephew of Barney Barnato, partner of Cecil John Rhodes and Cape parliamentarian, is born in London.
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Ernest Sedumedi Moloto, linguist, educationist and teacher who served as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of SA a
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Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee states that Prime Minister Botha and Nelson Mandela had not discussed policy matters or engaged
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Henning J. Klopper is elected as member of parliament for Vredefort (OFS) and leaves the railway service. He became speaker o
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Albertus Johannes Roux van Rhijn, first chief editor of Die Volksblad as daily newspaper, member of parliament and administrato
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Two explosions rock Windhoek. The first, in a Klein Windhoek butchery, kills one person and injures eighteen others. The second
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A new Black party, the Federal Independent Democratic Alliance (FIDA) is launched to oppose apartheid and prepares to work with
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Fietas, Johannesburg: Mr. Mahomed Suliman Bhana, who had been active in the TIYC and is outspoken against apartheid policies, i
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Bessie Amelia Head, novelist, short story writer and social historian is born in Pietermaritzburg. Being the daughter of a Wh
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The Pretoria Rifle Corps is founded under Stephanus Schoeman as a volunteer corps to defend Pretoria and surroundings. The loca
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Sir Andries Stockenström, landdros of Graaff-Reinet (as his father had been) and later commissioner-general of the Eastern
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General Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, comes to power in Rwanda in a bloodless coup, and remains president until his death in a p
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In Congo Republic (now Zaire), the army mutinies (5-6 July) and Europeans flee from Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) area to Brazzav
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Gen. Jan Smuts visits Dublin to negotiate with Eamon de Valera and other Irish leaders on behalf of Britain.
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Barney Barnato, diamond magnate and life-long member of De Beers Company, is born in London as Barnett Isaacs.
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John Fleming (Jack) Brock, scientist, physician and professor who developed the Department of Medicine at the University of Cap
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Extension of University Education Amendment Act No 67, amending the 1959 Extension of University Education Act and the Universi
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Johannes van der Walt, Afrikaans radio announcer and leader of a country-wide hiking club, dies of cancer in Johannesburg.
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Sir Lionel Phillips (80), mining magnate, chairman of the Chamber of Mines and politician, dies at Vergelegen, Somerset West.
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Citizenship Act No 38, specifying who were citizens, who could become citizens and who could lose their citizenship, commences.
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Britain, Soviet Union, United States and fifty-eight non-nuclear nations, including South Africa, sign the Nuclear Non-prolifer
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Cornelis Johannes Janse van Rensburg, expert in soil conservation and authority on field grasses, is born in Rustenburg, Transv
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