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Nomatyala Hangana, Deputy Minister of Provincial and Local Government of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is b
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Idi Amin is deposed as president of Uganda as rebels and exiles backed by Tanzanian forces seize control of Kampala.
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Djibouti lifts all trade and travel restrictions on South Africa, whilst Cote d’Ivoire announces the establishment of full dipl
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The Bar Association of Bophuthatswana, the Side Bar of Bophuthatswana and the School of Law of the University of Bophuthatswana
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Samuel Samson Tema, minister of religion and pioneer in the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA), dies in Seshego, Pietersbur
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Bechuanaland (now Botswana) nationalist leader (and ex-Ngwato chief), Seretse Khama, is denied permission to see his wife by Br
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Mk hero Solomon Mahlangu, executed 6 April 1979 in Pretoria on two counts of murder and buried in Atteridgeville because police
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European Community foreign ministers agree to scrap the EC oil embargo on South Africa and formally lift sanctions on sporting
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Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National Congress (ANC) to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). They a
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Ashby Peter Solomzi (A.P.) Mda, teacher, lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League and later the Pan Africanist C
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De Gaulle takes complete control of the French Committee of National Liberation in Algeria and, in a promise of a power-share a
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Dawid Johannes Rhoode, first professor of music at the University of the Orange Free State and director of music examinations a
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The Rev. John Campbell (74), director of the London Mission Society and traveller in SA, dies in Kingsland, near London.
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The free burgher exiles, Henning Huijzing, Jacobus van der Heijde, Ferdinandus Appel, Pieter van der Bijl and Jan van Meerlant,
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A court in England convicts two Algerian illegal immigrants of raising funds for the al-Qaida terror network, and sentences bot
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The Minister for Safety and Security, Mr Steve Tshwete, in co-operation with the National Commissioner of the SAPS, launches a
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The battle of Gingindlovu during the Anglo-Zulu War takes place. The British defeat Cetshwayo and the kraal is destroyed.
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Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, SA anthropologist and consul-general of the Orange Free State, is born in Rotterdam, the Nether
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The Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts resolution 134 (1960) deploring the policies and actions of t
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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
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The first tramway company in Cape Town, the ‘Cape Town and Green Point Tramway Company’, commences operations with a horse-draw
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Mthabatha Seema PAC member disappears, last seen first in the company of a policeman at the Seshego magistrate’s court and late
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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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Petrus van den Burg, organist of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in Pretoria and composer, is born in Amersfoort, the Netherlan
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The consortium Midi Television is awarded the first privately owned free-to-air television licence and e.tv started broadcastin
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Finance Minister Chris Liebenberg resigned and is replaced by Trevor Manuel. Alec Erwin is promoted to Manuel’s post. Gill Marc
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The World Campaign against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa is launched in London, with the support of the
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A bomb explodes in front of the post office in Krugersdorp, killing two security guards and injuring at least twenty people.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Schalk Burger is appointed commandant-general of the Boer forces and vice-president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche
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