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Three White members of the African National Congress (ANC), Damian de Lange, Ian Robertson and Susan Donelly, are sentenced to
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More than forty African heads of state and government, including President Thabo Mbeki, meet with the Chinese top leadership in
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President Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast announces he is planning an African Summit Conference to urge a dialogue with Sou
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The South African Indian Council requests the Prime Minister to reverse the Cabinet’s decision not to return Pageview and Distr
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Gideon Roos, SA actor, broadcaster and co-founder of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), is born in Worcester, CC.
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South African author J.M. Coetzee wins England’s prestige book prize, the Booker prize for fiction, for the second time, this t
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Some Observations on the South African Literary Tradition and the case of Nadine Gordimer: A Dissident´ s View by Dr Selim Y Gool
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Mr. Davie Craven, President of the South African Rugby Board, announces in Pretoria, after a meeting with the President of the
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Angolan news agency Angop reports that South African troops, backed by planes, tanks and artillery, used chemical weapons in at
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The constitution of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) is adopted at the inaugural conference and Steve Biko is el
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Luanda, capital of Angola, becomes a port of call for South African Airways with the airline’s operation of a 10-seater Junkers
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Decisions on the future constitution of the Transkei are agreed upon at a meeting of a Cabinet committee of the South African a
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The chimes at the Union Buildings is broadcasted before the early morning new bulletins of the South African Broadcasting Corpo
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Naval Headquarters at Simonstown announce that the second series of joint British South African exercises off the Cape Coast wi
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Following the findings of the Viljoen Commission into the employment of African labour in twelve gold mines, the experiment is
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Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C
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South African golfer Gary Player wins his second PGA Championship with a two-stroke victory over Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron.
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Jean van der Poel, historian and teacher who played an important role in the South African Teachers’ Association and undertook
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John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour
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In his first state of the nation address, South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime. The nation’s
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Angolan, Cuban, South African and United States officials meet in Cairo, in search of independence for Namibia in tandem with a
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African and some other delegates walk out of the International Labour Conference in Geneva when delegates of the Government and
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The Minister of Finance announces a change in the South African exchange rate practice. Henceforth the Rand is tied strictly to
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WWII: The Second South African Division under Major-General H.B. Klopper surrenders and the German force under Gen. Rommel capt
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The Minister of Defence denies that South African troops are supporting Portuguese armed forces in Mozambique, as alleged by FR
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Sam Kahn announces in Parliament that the Communist Party of South African has disbanded. The announcement is made a few days b
… C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 493. | …
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The United Nations Security Council is called into session at the urgent request of the African states. It issues a unanimous c
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The first completely SA built aeroplane is flown by John Weston in Kimberley. He establishing a South African non-stop flight r
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Testimony of Martin Lutuli of the Natal Native Congress, before the South African Native Affairs Commission, May 28, 1904 [Extracts]
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