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The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed, whereby every African is issued with a certificate of citizenship of his respec

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Elisabeth Eybers, South African poet who lives since 1966 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is born in Klerksdorp, western Transva

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The National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industries (Nafcoc) commits itself to the promotion of a free-market sys

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Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (now the University of

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Unrest among Black workers over wage improvement continues. Police arrest 244 African workers, of whom 169 are subsequently cha

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The South African Indian Council (SAIC) calls for a referendum in the Indian community on the acceptability of the Constitution

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The first Oscar nomination for a South African film, Yesterday, a drama about a woman in a rural village who discovers she is H

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South African politician and author of &quot;Jock of the Bushveld,&quot; Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, dies at the age of 69.

… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 4, p. 561. | …

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Student committees decide to end the boycott of Black schools, the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) having declared i

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The South African Department of Home Affairs refuses to grant Breyten Breytenbach a visa to receive an honorary doctorate from

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The Goldstone Commission of Inquiry has its first hearing on the South African Defence Force’s involvement in promoting Black o

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Johannes Jacobus Geldenhuys (Jannie), Chief of the South African Defence Force, 1985, and Member of the State Security Council,

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President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela jointly accept the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Pri

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The South African Government decides to proceed to appoint Ramesh Vassen as Consul General in Mumbai (previously Bombay), India

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South African Airways is inaugurated and takes over the passenger and goods air services hitherto operated by Union Airways.

… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 613 | …

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Walter Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the African National Congress in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Sisulu urges the Black

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Atlas Corporation completes deliveries to the South African Air Force (SAAF) of a first series of Impala MK-2 jet fighters.

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The Anti-Apartheid Movement in London ends its seventeen-year boycott of Barclays Bank for its South African ties.

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Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historic books on African people and their customs, dies instantly after b

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Testifying before the Harms Commission, which was taking testimony at the South African Embassy in London, former police captai

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Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka (born c. 1911), politician and founder of the African Democratic Party (ADP) and also an influential and

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Testifying before the Harms Commission, which was taking testimony at the South African Embassy in London, former police captai

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Paul Ramotsoane Mosaka (born c. 1911), politician and founder of the African Democratic Party (ADP) and also an influential and

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It is confirmed in London that thirteen African countries have threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh,

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Atlas Corporation completes deliveries to the South African Air Force (SAAF) of a first series of Impala MK-2 jet fighters.

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CNN reports that a 62-year-old South African man is being treated at a Pretoria hospital as a &quot;probable SARS&quot; case, a

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Zola Budd (17), South African athlete, receives British citizenship only thirteen days after application, to enable her to comp

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The South African Government is probing 37 000 public servants who are allegedly receiving various forms of grants fraudulently

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The National Coordinating Committee for the Repatriation of South African Exiles (NCCR) is dissolved due to fraud and corruptio

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Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historic books on African people and their customs, dies instantly after b