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Nick du Toit and thirteen other suspected mercenaries go on trial in Equatorial Guinea on account of a failed coup attempt. A f
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The SA minister of posts and telegraphs complains that Radio Tanzania’s broadcasts from Dar-es-Salaam are interfering with broa
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A 22-nation conference has just ended with a plan for international control of the Suez Canal and the Australian prime minister
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The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall embark at Simon’s Town for Canada on the next leg of their royal tour.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A group of eight surrendered Boer prisoners of war are shot by the Bushveld Carbineers and a German mission
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The first rugby match in SA takes place on the Green Point common, Cape Town, between a military and civilian team.
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Joan van Arckel establishes the first congregation at the Cape, with Abraham Schut as elder and Jan Reyniersz as deacon.
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Dr. Eschel Rhoodie is extradited from France and handed over to the South African authorities. He appears briefly in Pretoria’s
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Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, political activist and co-founder of SWAPO, is born in Omangudu, near Ondangwa, Namibia. (Maharaj: Refl
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Pierre Stephanus de Wet, SA actor, producer and pioneer of Afrikaans sound films, is born in Pretoria. African Film Product
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The Natal Indian Congress (NIC), the first permanent political organisation to maintain and protect the rights of Indians in So
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Regulations granting labour rights for members of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) are promulgated and published in the Go
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The Chinese community, officially classed non-White in the past though they were admitted to White theatres, restaurants and re
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Dr. Abrahams makes a habeas corpus application to the Cape Supreme Court and demands his return to Bechuanaland where he claims
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Hans Jürgen Aschenborn, librarian, director of the State Library and receiver of the Sailis Award for Bibliography in 1985, is
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At Graaff-Reinet, P.J. Fourie, J. van Rensburg and L.F.S. Pfeiffer are executed by a British firing squad for
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The ZAR formally submits the proposals worked out between State Attorney Smuts and the British Agent Sir W. C
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Following meetings between the SAG and the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC), broad agreement was reached that could lead
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Disclosure of Foreign Funding Act No 26, providing for the regulation of foreign donations by or for certain organisations and
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F.W. de Klerk is appointed and inaugurated as acting state president after the resignation of Pres. Botha the previous day. S
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John Cranko, SA born ballet dancer and choreographer of the Ballet school of the Wurtemberg State Opera in Stuttgart, Germany,
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Hendrik Lodewyk (Hennie) Roux, Afrikaans cultural leader and co-founder of the Rapportryersbeweging, is born on the farm La Mot
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Christiaan Afrikaner, son of Jonker Afrikaner and Nama chief, is killed in battle at Otjimbingue, German West Africa. He wa
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A flying instructor for microlight aircrafts, Willem Bester, and his pupil, L.P. van der Merwe, die when their craft crashes on
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In Kenya 200 raiders attacks the police station in Likoni, Mombasa. Prisoners are freed; six police officers and seven civilian
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WW 2: Japan surrenders unconditionally, bringing to an end a war in which millions of people, and many South Africans, were kil
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The memorandum of the negotiations between J.C. Smuts of the ZAR and Sir W. Conyngham Greene of Britain, concerning the franchi
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The SA regional airline, Sun Air, discontinues its service and thousands of disappointed passengers have to acquire seats on ot
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Dr James Barry, colonial medical inspector who will perform what is believed to be the first recorded, and successful, caesarea
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