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Pres. Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary, arrive at the Cape Town International Airport, the first American president to visit S
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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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An argument between a man and his stepson about today’s rugby Test in which the Springboks beat Scotland, ends tragically when
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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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Frans Lion Cachet (64), pastor in several parts of SA and various denominations, dies in Bergen-op-Zoom, the Netherlands.
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Cyril Ramaphosa, a lawyer and general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, is arrested in Lebowa, on charge of organ
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Philip Alan Moore, politician, soldier, educator and financier who emigrated to SA in 1913, dies in Johannesburg. He was the ‘f
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President Thabo Mbeki and the minister of justice are facing a R550 000 civil damages claim after a convicted murderer kil
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The UN General Assembly presses Britain, France and Israel for withdrawal of their troops from Egypt. The United States joins t
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Johann Hendrik Lodewyck Schumann, prisoner of war who played an important role on St Helena to encourage musical and cultural a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battles of Belmont, western front, and Willow Grange, Natal front, started on the day before, continue.
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The families who survived the Thirstland Trek and made it to Angola, are naturalised as Portuguese subjects, assured of freedom
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Gunmen kidnap five aid workers from the U.N. and European Union in Somalia. They are released unharmed three days later.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: During the Battle of Willow Grange, two British soldiers and two burghers are knocked unconscious by lightnin
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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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Stephanus Johannes Paulus (Fanie) Eloff (62), first notable sculptor born in SA and grandson of Paul Kruger, dies in Pretoria.
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Basil Neo Sipho Bridgeman (Doc) Bikitshan, veteran journalist and story-teller is born in Mayfair, Johannesburg. He grows up in
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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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Energy specialist and free-lance reporter Andrew Kennedy reports that the Koeberg Nuclear plant is quite safe despite power cut
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Dr Pierre Rossouw, ecumenical affairs and information officer of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) re-emphasises that the DRC con
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Palestinian students storm the Egyptian embassy in Athens, and an embassy in Beirut comes under rocket attack as protests sprea
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Grintek of SA, Saab of Sweden and British aerospace sign a historic contract for supplying military equipment worth about R60 m
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SA author Herman Charles Bosman is found guilty of murdering his stepbrother and sentenced to death. The sentence was later
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Elections to the country’s twenty-nine new Black local authorities, over the previous ten days, are met with demonstrations and
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Theo Gerdener resigns from the National Party on account of his involvement with Action South and Southern Africa (ACASA), an i
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The Angolan government and its UNITA guerrilla foes formally adopt terms for a truce to end a conflict killing an estimated 1,0
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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 Security Council, in resolution 182(1963), calls upon all States "to cease forthwith the sale and shipment of equipmen
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The Rev. Johannes Henoch Neethling, co-founder of the Stellenbosch Gymnasium, later the Paul Roos Gymnasium, and also the “Stel
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