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Natal Indian Congress (NIC) meets in an emergency session in Durban and decides on a hartal on 13 June, which was designated &q

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A senior ANC member, P. Nyaose and his wife, are killed by a car bomb in Swaziland. Alfred Nzo, the ANC Secretary-General, blam

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Mark Thatcher incurs a fine of R3-million and is given a four-year suspended prison term after pleading guilty in a Cape Town c

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Cassim Mahomed Lakhi, lecturer, and later head of the Department of History of Art in the University College for Indians (now U

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Dr. Renfrew Christie, an academic and former student leader at the University of Cape Town, is sentenced to ten years imprisonm

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Duke Ketye, SA artist, is born in Orlando East, Soweto. After matriculation he studied art with Sister Pientia Selhorst and Sis

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Sir Henry Binns (61), sugar cane farmer, founder of the Umhlanga Valley Sugar Estate Company and Natal politician, dies in Piet

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The provincial synod of the Anglican Church passes a resolution to discourage the singing of ‘Die Stem’ and to use ‘Nkosi Sikel

Report of a Deputation from the ANC to the Deputy Prime Minister and Others on March 4, 1942, by Dr. A.B. Xuma [n.d.]

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Jacobus Hendrik Hatting, fighter at the battle of Blood River and author of an early history of the Voortrekkers, is born.

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Cronje is trapped against the Modder River on the farm Wolwekraal in the Paardeberg vicinity, and t

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Twelve ANC supporters are killed in an IFP attack on houses and hostels in Esikhaweni, Natal North Coast, allegedly assisted by

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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, Dr. Connie Mulder, announces that he will in future be known as the Minis

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New clues in the Dr Robert and Jean-Cora Smith murder investigation are discovered after twenty years. The letters RAU TEM

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Dr Azar Paul Jammine, businessman and director of several companies, is born in Alexandria, Egypt. He arrived in SA in 1950.

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The Hertzog Prize is instituted by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Ar

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South African Air Force pioneer Major-General Ken van der Spuy, veteran of both world wars and holder of fourteen decorations f

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The Transkei Minister of Justice orders the Methodist Church of South Africa to cease all activities, and cede its property wit

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A joint statement is issued, agreed to by Dr. Verwoerd, Victorio Carpio, Dr. de Alva and the Foreign minister, Eric Louw, indic

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The UN ban on Rhodesian import and export, introduced on 16 December 1966, is expanded to include all trade with Rhodesia.

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Signing of the second and final surrender of the Cape to the British under Gen. David Baird at Papendorp (presently Woodstock)

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ANC president Oliver Tambo, in a speech in Lusaka, rules out negotiations with the SA government and declares 1987 to be “the y

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Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d

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The Boer generals report back in Pretoria after a campaign in Europe to procure aid for the reconstruction of the country after

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News 24 reports that the Irish deputy premier, Mary Harney, from Dublin, has quietly been holidaying with family and friends in

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Joe Slovo (69), national chairman of the Communist Party in South Africa and Minister of Housing in the Government of National

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The forty-five mercenaries alleged to have commandeered an Air India Boeing and forced it to fly to Durban, after attempting a

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Labour Party leader the Rev. Allan Hendrickse and150 supporters take to the waves off a ‘Whites only’ beach at Port Elizabeth.

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Lord Salisbury negotiates an Anglo-French agreement on West Africa and ends the Niger crisis. It defines the border between Nig

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Three Whites, Damion de Lange, Ian Robertson and Susan Donelly, are convicted of terrorism for being in possession of an arms c

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Natal Indian Congress (NIC) meets in an emergency session in Durban and decides on a hartal on 13 June, which was designated &amp;q

A senior ANC member, P. Nyaose and his wife, are killed by a car bomb in Swaziland. Alfred Nzo, the ANC Secretary-General, blam

Mark Thatcher incurs a fine of R3-million and is given a four-year suspended prison term after pleading guilty in a Cape Town c

Cassim Mahomed Lakhi, lecturer, and later head of the Department of History of Art in the University College for Indians (now U

Dr. Renfrew Christie, an academic and former student leader at the University of Cape Town, is sentenced to ten years imprisonm

Duke Ketye, SA artist, is born in Orlando East, Soweto. After matriculation he studied art with Sister Pientia Selhorst and Sis

Sir Henry Binns (61), sugar cane farmer, founder of the Umhlanga Valley Sugar Estate Company and Natal politician, dies in Piet

The provincial synod of the Anglican Church passes a resolution to discourage the singing of ‘Die Stem’ and to use ‘Nkosi Sikel

Report of a Deputation from the ANC to the Deputy Prime Minister and Others on March 4, 1942, by Dr. A.B. Xuma [n.d.]

Jacobus Hendrik Hatting, fighter at the battle of Blood River and author of an early history of the Voortrekkers, is born.

Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. Piet Cronje is trapped against the Modder River on the farm Wolwekraal in the Paardeberg vicinity, and t

Twelve ANC supporters are killed in an IFP attack on houses and hostels in Esikhaweni, Natal North Coast, allegedly assisted by

The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, Dr. Connie Mulder, announces that he will in future be known as the Minis

New clues in the Dr Robert and Jean-Cora Smith murder investigation are discovered after twenty years. The letters RAU TEM

Dr Azar Paul Jammine, businessman and director of several companies, is born in Alexandria, Egypt. He arrived in SA in 1950.

The Hertzog Prize is instituted by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and Ar

South African Air Force pioneer Major-General Ken van der Spuy, veteran of both world wars and holder of fourteen decorations f

The Transkei Minister of Justice orders the Methodist Church of South Africa to cease all activities, and cede its property wit

A joint statement is issued, agreed to by Dr. Verwoerd, Victorio Carpio, Dr. de Alva and the Foreign minister, Eric Louw, indic

The UN ban on Rhodesian import and export, introduced on 16 December 1966, is expanded to include all trade with Rhodesia.

Signing of the second and final surrender of the Cape to the British under Gen. David Baird at Papendorp (presently Woodstock)

ANC president Oliver Tambo, in a speech in Lusaka, rules out negotiations with the SA government and declares 1987 to be “the y

Lord Robert Baden-Powell, British general during the siege of Mafeking during Anglo-Boer War 2 and founder of the Boy Scouts, d

The Boer generals report back in Pretoria after a campaign in Europe to procure aid for the reconstruction of the country after

News 24 reports that the Irish deputy premier, Mary Harney, from Dublin, has quietly been holidaying with family and friends in

Joe Slovo (69), national chairman of the Communist Party in South Africa and Minister of Housing in the Government of National

The forty-five mercenaries alleged to have commandeered an Air India Boeing and forced it to fly to Durban, after attempting a

Labour Party leader the Rev. Allan Hendrickse and150 supporters take to the waves off a ‘Whites only’ beach at Port Elizabeth.

Lord Salisbury negotiates an Anglo-French agreement on West Africa and ends the Niger crisis. It defines the border between Nig

Three Whites, Damion de Lange, Ian Robertson and Susan Donelly, are convicted of terrorism for being in possession of an arms c

Natal Indian Congress (NIC) meets in an emergency session in Durban and decides on a hartal on 13 June, which was designated &q