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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

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President Syngman Rhee presents the South African Air Force (SAAF) squadron, placed at the disposal of the United Nations organ

… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 1, p. 268. …

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Korean War (1950-1953). South African No 2 Squadron, known as Cheetah Squadron, comprising of fifty officers and 157 other rank

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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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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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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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Three White members of the African National Congress (ANC), Damian de Lange, Ian Robertson and Susan Donelly, are sentenced to

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More than forty African heads of state and government, including President Thabo Mbeki, meet with the Chinese top leadership in

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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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Six injured South African survivors of the tsunami in Thailand arrive at Lanseria airport on board a rescue flight from Bangkok

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Prof. Dirk Postma, founder of the “Gereformeerde Kerk van Suid-Afrika” (GKSA, nicknamed ‘Doppers’) and head of the reformed the

… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 9, p. 38. …

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Ex-Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa of the Central African Republic, CAR, is sentenced to death while in exile in France.

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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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In a meeting at the White House President Thabo Mbeki urges President George W. Bush to deliver more African aid support. The t

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More than 200 South African religious leaders representing the Christian, Moslem, Jewish and Hindu faiths, decide at the end of

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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Former Labour Party leader and later African National Congress MP, Reverend Allan Hendrickse dies. In June 2004 he was awarded

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Chief Matanzima calls upon the South African government to grant full independence to the Transkei within five years. The prime

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TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph

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The Potchefstroom treaty between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, binding each state to assist the other w

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The Nederduitse Gereformerde Kerk (NGK) together with its sister church for Blacks (the NGK in Afrika), Coloureds (the NG Sendi

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Dr Gideon Roos, former director-general of the SABC and founder member of SAMRO (South African Music Rights Organisation), dies

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President Paul Kruger urges closer union of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. A treaty of alliance follows.