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Christiaan Willem Hendrik van der Post, member of the Volksraad in the Free State, consul of the Netherlands and poet, is born

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Allan Boesak, former Director of the Foundation for Peace and Justice, is sentenced to eight years in gaol on charges of fraud

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The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), at its meeting in Cape Town, decides to instruct the Natal and the T

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South Africa is to expand its military call-up to include all White men aged between seventeen and sixty-five, almost doubling

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Cyprian Solomon, paramount chief of the Zulus, warns 20,000 of his people not to participate in the defiance campaign and says

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In the homeland of Ciskei, a mutiny by police and defence forces led to the resignation of Brigadier Oupa Gqozo. The TEC immedi

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Lionel Ronald Louw, social worker and ordained minister of the Community of Faith is born in Worcester. He was delegate to seve

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Evidence of guerrilla training in the Soviet Union and Tanzania is given in the trial of six people, on nineteen charges under

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The Budget introduced by the Minister of Finance, Dr. T.E. D&ouml;nges, provides the record sum of R202 million for defence and

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The Rev. Jozua Francois Naude, church secretary of the Transvaal Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church and founder of the first Af

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Dr David Livingstone, SA explorer and missionary, generally accepted to be the first White man to see the Victoria Falls is bor

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The government admits responsibility for the death of the Black leader, Joseph Mdluli on 19 March 1976 and agree to pay damages

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Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, is born in Newton Stewart, Ireland

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Chris Heunis, minister of Constitutional Development and Planning says that R555m is owing in rent arrears, of which R452m is o

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Britain’s Queen mother, widow of King George VI and mother of his successor to the throne, Queen Elizabeth II, dies at 101.

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Justice Rumpff finds Sisulu and other accused not guilty on a charge of High Treason, in the special court in Pretoria They are

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About 50 000 people are present at the burial of Johannes van der Walt, well-known wrestler and hero, in Melville, Johannesburg

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John Hanning Speke, British explorer who discovered the origin of the Nile and the first European to see Lake Victoria, is born

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First ever multi-racial elections held in South Africa ends, with the ANC receiving 62.6% of the votes and the National Party 2

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The League of Nations is established, with Gen. Jan Smuts and Prime Minister Louis Botha as the two representatives of the Unio

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The Huguenot Church, designed by Louis Thibault and oldest church building in SA after the Groote Kerk in Cape Town, is consecr

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The three villages clustered about the mouth of the Buffalo: East London West Bank; East London East Bank, and Panmure, are mer

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Ten railway coaches are set on fire in Soweto and another twenty-six are damaged. (2004). Today in History, Pretoria News, 21 A

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Dr Anita Worrall, wife of Democratic Party co-leader Denis Worrall, and fifty-four other women arrive in Harare for three days

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General Jan Christiaan Smuts, in charge of British, South African and Indian troops in Kenya, finally has the Germans on the ru

Draft position paper on the ideologies of Pan Africanism and Black Consciousness as they have developed in occupied Azania (ie South Africa)

Draft position paper on the ideologies of Pan Africanism and Black Consciousness as they have developed in occupied Azania (ie South Africa)

Message from the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party to the Government and People of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Message from the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party to the Government and People of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Summary notes of meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Cape Town, Monday, 22 January 1979

Summary notes of meeting between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Cape Town, Monday, 22 January 1979

Address on the Sixth National Day of Affirmation and Human Freedom in the Great Hall, University of the Witwatersrand. Thursday, 6th June, 1968

Address on the Sixth National Day of Affirmation and Human Freedom in the Great Hall, University of the Witwatersrand. Thursday, 6th June, 1968

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113 people are killed when a Beirut-bound Boeing 727 clips a building on the end of the runway at Cotonou, Benin and ends up in