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The UN ban on Rhodesian import and export, introduced on 16 December 1966, is expanded to include all trade with Rhodesia.
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A thirty-day cease-fire is declared as talks between Algerian Moslem leaders and the French government begin at Evian-les-Bains
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A bomb blast damages Melrose House in Pretoria, where the peace treaty between the two Boer Republics and Britain was signed in
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F.B. Deemin, a gold digger of Johannesburg, is hanged in Australia for murdering his first wife and casting her in a cement blo
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Capt. Smith attacks Andries Pretorius at Congella in Natal. Smith is defeated, seventeen men are killed and thirty-one are wo
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The new campus of the Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU) is opened by the SA state president and chancellor of the university
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Dr Carel de Wet, grandson of Gen. C.R. de Wet, former minister of health and diplomat, is born in Memel, OFS.
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In an attempt to unite the two Boer republics, the commandoes of the Free State and Transvaal (Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek) con
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WWII: North Africa. Believing that yesterdays advance by British forces into Sollum and Fort Capuzzo was the start of an attack
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Anglo-Boer War 2: After 216 days Boer forces abandon the siege of Mafeking and Colonel Mahon’s relief column enters the town.
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’Sure’ Baloyi, well-known SA artist and sculptor is killed in a car accident on the N1 near Makhado (formerly Louis Trichardt).
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Flights between the UK and Kenya are suspended amid fears of an attack by al-Qaeda on targets in East Africa.
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For a large tract of British Somaliland (Western Hawd) and a right for duty free imports through the port of Zeila, Emperor Men
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Following the proclamation of Abd al-Aziz as Sultan of Morocco, French and British citizens have been attacked by rebel tribesm
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Mazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist is born in Amahlongwa, Southern KwaZulu Natal. His first poems were published in news
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Forces of South Africa’s General Louis Botha occupy Windhoek, capital of German Southwest Africa. The dates 11 May and 13 May a
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In preparation for the next general election, two anti-Malan parties are formed: the Federal Union Party and the Liberals (led
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Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, dies in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organise
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Stella Sigcau, South African minister of Public Works since 1999 and third prime minister of the former Transkei, dies at Durba
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Israel Isaac (Lippy) Lipshitz, SA sculptor is born in Plungian, Lithuania. His father emigrated to SA in 1904 and was joined
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Ms Stella Sigcau, Xhosa princess, third premier of Transkei for three months and minister of Public Works, dies of heart failur
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A White Paper of the Departments of Justice and of Correctional Services says South Africa has one of the highest prison popula
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The government announces that its aim is to provide all Black children with free and compulsory education as soon as possible.
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Lady Anne Barnard (75), wife of colonial secretary Andrew Barnard and a chronicler of daily life in the colony in a series of l
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The terms under which the alliance between COSATU, the SACP and the ANC should work together to dismantle apartheid, decided on
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Tallal Khaled Kaddourah and Safik Hussein el-Anda, under death sentence in Greece for their part in the 5 August terrorist atta
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High Commissioner of South Africa and governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, sends his famous ‘helots’ telegram to Mr Joseph
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Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for the suppression of internal disorder and reorganise the po
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Lord Roberts departs from Bloemfontein and begins the ‘March to Pretoria’ with almost 44,000 men, 18,
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