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ArchiveLetter from R H De Wet, Chief Director of the Drakensburg Administration Board to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
Letter from the Drakensburg Administration Board to the Ciskei Commission supplying population statistics of the Xhosa people residing in Drakensburg area for…
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The United States, the Netherlands, Great Britain, West Germany and Belgium all start recalling their Ambassadors for consultat
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Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter notifies the British that his territory, west of the Drakensberg, will remain inde
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Tinashe Washington Nengomasha, Zimbabwean international football player who played for Kaizer Chiefs and was winner of the Kick
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The Chief Minister of Ovamboland, Filemon Elifas (43), is shot and killed near Ondangwa, South West Africa (Namibia).
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Mohamed Hajee Joosub, pioneer wholesaler, trader, philanthropist and devout Muslim, dies in Pretoria. He was born in Ranavav, I
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Major Theodor Leutwein, with reinforcements from Germany, defeats the Nama chief Hendrik Witbooi in German South-West Africa, a
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Allison Wessels George Champion, trade union leader, politician and businessman, dies in Chesterville, Durban. In 1942 he was
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In Mozambique, twelve people are charged over a massive banking fraud, a case that was being investigated by murdered journalis
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Legal Aid Act No 2 commences, providing legal aid for Blacks, which was absent in the South African setting.
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Legal Aid Act No 2 commences, providing legal aid for Blacks, which was absent in the South African setting.
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Sir Thomas Cullinan (74), founder of the Premier Mine where the Cullinan diamond was discovered in 1907, dies.
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Former apartheid-era security police colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt dies in Port Elizabeth after a battle with cancer. Nieuwoudt was
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Seetsele Modiri (Silas Moliri) Molema, medical doctor, politician and author, dies in Mafeking (Mafikeng). He was the eldes
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Gertrud Theiler, zoologist, researcher and teacher is born in Pretoria. She was youngest daughter of Sir Arnold Theiler.
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The government was implicitly involved in farm attacks, the union’s national safety and security committee chairperson Danie du
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General Louis Botha announces the South African government’s decision to carry the war into German South West Africa.
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A limpet-mine explosion kills a man outside a crowded centre in Northcliff, Johannesburg. Police suspect that the victim was ca
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Prime Minister Botha’s visit to eight countries in Europe Portugal, Great Britain, West Germany, Belgium, France, Austria, Ital
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Warring factions in Liberia negotiate a cease-fire with help from visiting West African politicians as nearly 1 500 terrified f
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Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.
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The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Afr
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Adolphe Mabille, Swiss missionary, Sotho philologist and Bible translator, dies at Morija, Basutoland (Lesotho) where he was st
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Dr Daniël Francois Malan, premier of SA at the age of 74, is born in Riebeeck West, CC.
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Patrick Laurence, journalist from the Star, was charged with contravening the Suppression of Communism Act by publishing a stat
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Dr Jonas Salk develops a vaccine against polio. With the help of this vaccine, polio was obliterated from SA.
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Martin West, lieutenant-governor of Natal, appoints a location commission to investigate into the problems caused by about 100
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A United Nations official says South Africa and the South West African People’s Organisation (Swapo) have formally accepted an
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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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