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Libya expels 145 members of the Palestine Liberation Front, a radical faction of the PLO, and close four training bases used by
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James Thompson Bain, Scottish engineer, labour leader and editor who was one of the most militant labour leaders during the 191
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Steve Strydom, former chairman of the Free State rugby union and well-known SA rugby referee, dies of cancer in Bloemfontein.
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Forty-five African leaders (and one Indian) from South Africa meet in Lobatsi, Bechuanaland (27-28 October), to make plans to s
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Governor Henry Barkly of the Cape Colony annexes the territory east and west of the Vaal river (including the Kimberley diamond
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Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator As Prisoner And President, Dies At 95 by Bill Keller (The New York Times), 5 December 2013
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Speech At Mass Welcome Meeting In Durban On The Release Of Dr G. M. Naicker, Dr K. Goonam And R. A. Pillay From Prison, July 1948
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The Star reports that two men, Elliot Nkuma and Joseph Mahlalela were sentenced to death for the ‘necklace’ murder of M. Mpapne
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The tripartite alliance, consisting of the ANC, the SACP and the COSATU, outline mass action plans from the beginning of August
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The government of India announces that it is cutting India’s last remaining links with South Africa by refusing landing and pas
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Abbas I, viceroy of Egypt under the Ottomans who opposed Western-inspired reforms, is strangled by two of his servants, and suc
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Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act No 67 commences, repealing the laws relating to the carrying of
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The documentation of the Lusaka Cease-fire Agreement, attempting to bring peace to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the
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SA, suspended since 1964, rejoins the International Olympic Committee and is allowed to take part in the next Olympic Games to
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WWI: Dr Theodore Seitz, governor of German South West Africa, surrenders at the farm Khorab, between Otavi and Tsumeb, to Gen.
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João da Nova, Portuguese navigator on his way to India, finds letters and a document in a shoe hanging from a milk wood tree a
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Several attacks take place on IFP members in Nyaninga, near Table Mountain. Mr Mfasheni Mkhize (56), Ntinini Mkhize (41) and Vu
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The National Conference of the ANC elects Nelson Mandela unopposed as its new President and Walter Sisulu as its Deputy Preside
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Business Day reports that minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, said that apartheid has become an albatross around the count
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Afrikaans-speaking Boers protest that the new electorate laws favour the English-speakers, and are an example of how Boers are
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Twelve Africans on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired to take over a town and kill Whites a
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A week-long labour stay-away, organised by the ANC and its allies, begins in protest against factional Black violence in Natal.
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The SA Foreign Minister, Dr. H. Muller and the new British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, discuss the question of th
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Three South African tennis stars Rene Schuurman, Jean Forbes and Sandra Reynolds wear their sack-line tennis dresses for the fi
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Speech by President Nelson Mandela on being awarded the freedom of the city and county of Cardiff Cardiff, 16 June 1998
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Notes for a speech by President Nelson Mandela at the Blue Train gala dinner and charity auction Cape Town, 27 September 1997
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Over 5,000 soldiers supported by tanks, armoured cars and air force units begin manoeuvres in an exercise code named Operation
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Six Fijian rugby players and a radio commentator are banned by the Fijian Rugby Union for travelling to South Africa. The seven
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Dr Allan Boesak is arrested in South Africa. Dr Boesak, along with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Dr Christiaan Beyers Naudé
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