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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
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 8, p. 113. …
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6000 Indians march in Durban to protest against the Asiatic Bill, and support the South African Indian Congress resolution for
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The African National Congress (ANC) calls off a peace rally to be held with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) scheduled for April 2 i
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The African National Congress (ANC) calls off a peace rally to be held with Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) scheduled for April 2 i
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New constitution goes into effect in the British Gold Coast colony later Ghana becoming first British African colony with major
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Statement of dissolution of the South African Coloured People’s Congress, by Barney Desai and Cardiff Marney, London, March 1966 (abridged)
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A consensus is reached following the fall-out between leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over the co
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South African flanker Schalk Burger (21) picks up two major international awards, the first player ever to receive the internat
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Demonstrations begin outside the South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. and continue on an almost daily basis, as anti-apart
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It is officially announced on Eric Louw’s seventy-third birthday that the South African Ambassador in London, Dr. Hilgard Mulle
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Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, is born at Uitvlucht, Pi
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Anti-apartheid demonstrations continue in front of the South African Embassy in Washington and spread to other US cities where
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The US’s deputy State Department spokesperson Adam Ereli praises the efforts of South African President Thabo Mbeki who, on the
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A leader of the South West African People’s Union and former prisoner on Robben Island, Mr Immanuel Shifidi, is killed during v
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The United Nations announces that South African Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu will head a UN fact-finding mission to Gaza’s Beit
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The South African Institute of Race Relations calls for judicial inquiries into the death of detainees in police custody, backe
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Daniël Petrus Goosen (53), member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy of Science and
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Milton Obote is sworn in as Uganda’s president, becoming the first African president ousted in a military coup to recapture the
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In Egypt, the German Afrika Korps and Italian forces under Rommel begin a retreat westwards after a renewed campaign by the all
Press statement issued by the National Union of Namibian Workers [and] the Congress of South African Trade Unions, 6 April 1989
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Cecil John Rhodes gives evidence before the South African Committee of the House of Commons on the Jameson Raid enquiry.
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President Samora Machel of Mozambique declares solidarity with the plight of the South African people, as a reaction to the mas
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African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela meets the world’s press at the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Tow
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The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference decides to prepare to resist. It also decides to send delegations to India,
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The South African Defence Force (SADF) admits the existence of a secret unit called the Civil Co-operation Bureau (CCB), which
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During the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference held in Cape Town, a deputation of sixty Indians calls on the Prime
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In Cape Town the heaviest possible sentence in the South African Justice system is imposed on the Niewoudtville murder gang –
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The government is reported to have frozen the South African assets of the former Information Secretary, Dr. Eschel Roodie, and
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Second round of talks between Libya and the South African and Saudi Arabian envoys in connection with the Lockerbie bombing.
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