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Louis Botha and James Barry Munnik Herzog form the nationalist United South African (or Unionist) Party, calling for South Afri

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The merger between Ashanti Goldfields and SA’s Anglo-Gold, approved by the Ghanaian government on 29 October 2003, becomes effe

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Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee

This day in history

Nomatyala Hangana, Deputy Minister of Provincial and Local Government of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is b

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Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala.

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Djibouti lifts all trade and travel restrictions on South Africa, whilst Cote d’Ivoire announces the establishment of full dipl

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The Bar Association of Bophuthatswana, the Side Bar of Bophuthatswana and the School of Law of the University of Bophuthatswana

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Samuel Samson Tema, minister of religion and pioneer in the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Seshego, Pietersbur

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Bechuanaland (now Botswana) nationalist leader (and ex-Ngwato chief), Seretse Khama, is denied permission to see his wife by Br

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Mk hero Solomon Mahlangu, executed 6 April 1979 in Pretoria on two counts of murder and buried in Atteridgeville because police

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European Community foreign ministers agree to scrap the EC oil embargo on South Africa and formally lift sanctions on sporting

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Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National Congress (ANC) to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). They a

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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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Maxwell Mamase, MEC for Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, is born in Peddie, Eastern Cape

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De Gaulle takes complete control of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algeria and, in a promise of a power-share a

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Dawid Johannes Rhoode, first professor of music at the University of the Orange Free State and director of music examinations a

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The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.

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The free burgher exiles, Henning Huijzing, Jacobus van der Heijde, Ferdinandus Appel, Pieter van der Bijl and Jan van Meerlant,

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A court in England convicts two Algerian illegal immigrants of raising funds for the al-Qaida terror network, and sentences bot

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The Minister for Safety and Security, Mr Steve Tshwete, in co-operation with the National Commissioner of the SAPS, launches a

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The battle of Gingindlovu during the Anglo-Zulu War takes place. The British defeat Cetshwayo and the kraal is destroyed.

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Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, SA anthropologist and consul-general of the Orange Free State, is born in Rotterdam, the Nether

This day in history

The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t

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The South African Naval Service is founded. With the ships the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a

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The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw

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Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee

This day in history

The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei

This day in history

The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei

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It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.

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The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta

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Louis Botha and James Barry Munnik Herzog form the nationalist United South African (or Unionist) Party, calling for South Afri

The merger between Ashanti Goldfields and SA’s Anglo-Gold, approved by the Ghanaian government on 29 October 2003, becomes effe

Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee

Nomatyala Hangana, Deputy Minister of Provincial and Local Government of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is b

Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala.

Djibouti lifts all trade and travel restrictions on South Africa, whilst Cote d’Ivoire announces the establishment of full dipl

The Bar Association of Bophuthatswana, the Side Bar of Bophuthatswana and the School of Law of the University of Bophuthatswana

Samuel Samson Tema, minister of religion and pioneer in the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Seshego, Pietersbur

Bechuanaland (now Botswana) nationalist leader (and ex-Ngwato chief), Seretse Khama, is denied permission to see his wife by Br

Mk hero Solomon Mahlangu, executed 6 April 1979 in Pretoria on two counts of murder and buried in Atteridgeville because police

European Community foreign ministers agree to scrap the EC oil embargo on South Africa and formally lift sanctions on sporting

Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National Congress (ANC) to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). They a

Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C

Maxwell Mamase, MEC for Agriculture and Land Affairs of the Eastern Cape Provincial Government, is born in Peddie, Eastern Cape

De Gaulle takes complete control of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algeria and, in a promise of a power-share a

Dawid Johannes Rhoode, first professor of music at the University of the Orange Free State and director of music examinations a

The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.

The free burgher exiles, Henning Huijzing, Jacobus van der Heijde, Ferdinandus Appel, Pieter van der Bijl and Jan van Meerlant,

A court in England convicts two Algerian illegal immigrants of raising funds for the al-Qaida terror network, and sentences bot

The Minister for Safety and Security, Mr Steve Tshwete, in co-operation with the National Commissioner of the SAPS, launches a

The battle of Gingindlovu during the Anglo-Zulu War takes place. The British defeat Cetshwayo and the kraal is destroyed.

Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, SA anthropologist and consul-general of the Orange Free State, is born in Rotterdam, the Nether

The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t

The South African Naval Service is founded. With the ships the Protea, Sonneblom and Immortelle it formed the nucleus of a

The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw

Nine people are killed in a clash between police and residents after a rent stay-away called by the Alexandra boycott committee

The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei

The UN Security Council unanimously approves an arms embargo against Ethiopia and Eritrea following the latest flare-up in thei

It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.

The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta