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Taliep Petersen, one of South Africa’s most popular theatre personalities, is shot and killed execution style during an armed r
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The United Nations General Assembly adopts a total of eighteen resolutions on the situation in South Africa and problems creat
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Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) commits its first acts of violence, when several buildings in Durban, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg ar
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The second Republican invasion of the Cape Colony starts under Commandant P.H. Kritzinger and General J.B.M.
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Prof. John William Bews, SA botanist and expert on different species of grass, is born on the Orkney Islands.
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Five people, under whom three children, are killed and five injured in a landmine explosion at Chatsworth, near Messina, Northe
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Dr Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp (64), controversial missionary and physician in the Eastern Cape, dies in Cape Town.
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Zwelakhe Solomon Mankazana, chief executive officer of Ubambo Investment Holdings and director of Cell C (Pty) Ltd, is born in
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Simon Petros (Peter) Matseke, who played an important role in African social, educational and political life, dies in Pretoria.
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Dr Eduard Christiaan Pienaar, professor at the University of Stellenbosch and first full-time professor in Afrikaans, is born o
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Anglo-Boer War 1 (Transvaal War of Independence): After a period of passive resistance and repeated attempts by leaders to have
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Rosa Sophia Cornelia Nepgen, SA composer and wife of poet W.E.G. Louw, is born in Barkly-East, Eastern Cape.
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Hours before US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright arrives in Rwanda, Hutu rebels attack a village with guns, grenades and m
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South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland sign a new customs agreement in Pretoria, to come into operation on 1 March 1970.
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J.F. Wenzel presents his credentials to President Banda as South Africa’s first Chargé d’Affaires and head of legation i
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Sisulu, together with a number of members from the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) and African National Congress (ANC), meet in
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Three leaders of the anti-apartheid United Democratic Front (UDF) and two officials of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO
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Address to the Second NEDLAC Summit presented by John Gomomo, COSATU President, on behalf of COSATU, NACTU and FEDUSA
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Liberia and Ethiopia institute legal proceedings against SA concerning the administration of South West Africa in the World Cou
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A nationwide strike is launched by Black journalists for increased pay and for recognition of their union, the Media Workers’ A
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UN Emergency Force reports success in easing tension between Egyptian and Israeli troops at positions west of Suez Canal.
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Benin, Libya and Mauritius insist that the United Nations Security Council bypass the Western powers arms embargo resolution an
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Matthews "Loop-en-Val" Motshwareteu, one of South Africa’s greatest middle-and long-distance athletes, is born in Sow
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The Prime Minister explains that administrative rationalisation is to be implemented in four states, and announces that the Dep
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Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers, lexicographer, educationist and author, is born on the farm Saxenburg, near Kuils River, Ste
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Pieter Cornelis Schoonees, lexicographer and member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, is born in Uniondale
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Adv. Mojankunyane Gumbi, Legal Advisor to the President’s Office (1999) and director of the Women’s Development Bank, is born i
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From the horse`s mouth - what South Africa means to western imperialism and what they will do to kep it
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Several thousand teachers march to the regional offices of the Department of Education and Training (DET) in Johannesburg, in o
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