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Die Huisgenoot, oldest still existing Afrikaans magazine, appears ten months after Die Burger, and is the second publication of
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A SADF unit is ambushed at the Cabinda oil refinery in Angola and Capt. Wynand du Toit is taken captive.
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The South African Olympic and National Games Association (SAONGA) reports that all South Africa’s attempts to secure re-admissi
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The South African Olympic and National Games Association (SAONGA) reports that all South Africa’s attempts to secure re-admissi
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The English Cricket Council bows to British government pressure and calls off the all-White South African cricket tour.
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Moss Lebakeng Leoka, executive chair of Makulu Consolidating Holdings and director of several boards, is born in Orlando East,
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Theophilus Dlodlo, Tutu Nkwanyane and Mildred Msomi, ANC members, are shot dead in a car outside Mbabane, Swaziland. Names of p
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Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev announces a loan of 227 million dollars to the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syr
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The first Comrades marathon (87 km) is run by Vic Clapham and his friends who initiated it as a reunion.
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Joseph Langley Levy, editor of the Sunday Times and leading cultural figure in Johannesburg, is born in Liverpool, England.
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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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The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a
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SAA’s Boeing 707 "Windhoek" sets up a new record for the flight between Mauritius and Perth, covering the 3740-mile s
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French government announces a state of national emergency, giving it special powers to deal with the Algerian revolt and associ
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Charlotte Makgomo Maxeke, teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, dies in J
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Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, controversial missionary and physician of the London Missionary Society, is born in Rotterd
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Local elections for KwaZulu-Natal are again postponed until 26 June 1996 as a result of persistent violence and administrative
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Soviet premier Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev and Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser officiate at the ceremony to blow up a san
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The mayor of Welkom in the Free State is tarred and feathered after officiating at a multi-racial wheelchair marathon.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Pik Botha and Defence Minister Magnus Malan hold talks in Brazzaville, Congo, with an Angolan delegati
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A rusty freighter teeming with thousands of sick and hungry Liberian refugees is finally allowed to limp into a Ghanaian port a
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Pik Botha sees his election victory as a mandate to bring about internal change and to move away from discrimination.
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Sakumzi (Saki) Macozoma, ANC politician, director of various companies and member of several Boards, is born in Port Elizabeth.
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Immorality Amendment Act No 21 commences, extending the 1927 Immorality Act to all Black people including Coloureds and Asians.
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Prof. Izak Wilhelmus van der Merwe (Boerneef), well-known SA poet and author, is born on Boplaas, district Ceres.
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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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The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a
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The Azanian People’s Organisation and the Pan Africanist Congress announce they are to work towards the formation of a patrioti
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Fydell Edmund Garrett (41), newspaper editor, member of parliament and friend of Cecil John Rhodes, dies in Devon, England.
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