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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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The ANC as well as COSATU issued statements accusing elements of the South African security forces of orchestrating the conflic

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The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal

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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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John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour

Testimony of Martin Lutuli of the Natal Native Congress, before the South African Native Affairs Commission, May 28, 1904 [Extracts]

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The Competition Tribunal fines South African Airways (SAA) R45m, the largest-yet fine, for acting illegally by providing incent

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News 24 announces that Al-Qaeda terrorists are using South African passports, which they obtain through syndicates, for as litt

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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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A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress is attended by a large number of people from th

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Pres. Gnassingbe Eyadema, president of the West African state Togo for 31 years, is inaugurated for another term of 5 years.

Black Men in a White Man’s War: The Impact of the First World War on South African Blacks by Albert Grundlingh

Speech of J. T. Gumede, President of the African National Congress, at the International Congress against imperialism, Brussels, February 10-15 1927

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Former president Nelson Mandela is declared the ‘Greatest South African’ in a TV show that had the country nominate their 100 f

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Leaders of five black African nations decline to accept plan presented by Rhodesia’s Prime Minister Ian Smith to achieve black

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South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive, meeting in Cape Town, elects Sorabjee Rustomjee as a delegate of SAIC to the me

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Joint routine exercises are held between the British Royal Navy and the South African Navy, under the Simonstown Agreement, and

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The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal

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The Council of the New Zealand Softball Association decides by seventeen votes to seven to invite a South African men’s softbal

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Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he has been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.

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Jomo Kenyatta returns to Kenya from exile, during which he has been elected president of the Kenya National African Union.

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Eli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, co-founder of i.a. The African Garment Workers’ Union in Cape Town, jailed and

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The Minister of Education, Prof. Kader Asmal, launches the South African History Project at the Old Fort in Johannesburg, aimin

… Burger, D. (ed)(2002). South Africa Yearbook 2001/02, Pretoria: GCIS, p. 33. …

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The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) chooses the South African Reverend Alan Boesak, of the Dutch Reformed Mission Ch

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The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, is damaged by a bomb blast and nineteen people are inj

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P.W. Botha becomes the first South African Prime Minister to visit Soweto. His visit includes talks with the Soweto Community C

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World War 2: The British army under General Bernard Law Montgomery defeats Field Marshal Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in the Bat

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Anglo-German secret agreement on future of African territories of Portugal, whereby Britain is to obtain lease of Delagoa Bay a