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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe, Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) leader who was imprisoned and under house arrest for many year

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Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, is born on the farm M

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Three SA cabinet ministers, Dr Sibusiso Bengu, minister of education, Joe Modise, minister of defence and Mac Maharaj, minister

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Prosecutors in South Africa formally charge former Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan and nineteen others with the murders of t

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Frank Chikane, former secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches and current politician, is born in Johannesbur

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, OFS.

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Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies in Seshego, Pieters

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Voortrekker leaders Andries Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit (Gert) Maritz, each with his own men, leave for Western Transvaal to p

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Lord Lugard, leading the expedition of the Royal Niger Company in West Africa, claims a protectorate over Nikki and Bussa.

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C. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist who was commemorated in the botanical names Aloe lettae and Crassula lettae, is born in S

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Johann Franz (Hans) Endler, composer, director and co-founder of the Stellenbosch music conservatory, is born in Mohrau, Austri

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Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his wife Ruth Gerhardt, are sentenced to

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Winnie Mandela is banned for a further five years and continues to be restricted to the small town of Brandfort.

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The Minister of Bantu Education announces moves towards the introduction of free and compulsory education for Blacks. This is t

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Molly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner widely respected by Blacks, is killed in a car accident near Hu

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Commandant Gideon Scheepers is found guilty on several charges by a British court martial and sentenced to death. He professes

This day in history

Tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia. More than 125,000 people, including several South African touris

This day in history

The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students (C

This day in history

The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students

This day in history

Libya declares its independence as a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris I. It is the first country to achi

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Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers, lexicographer, educationist and author, is born on the farm Saxenburg, near Kuils River, Ste

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Pieter Cornelis Schoonees, lexicographer and member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, is born in Uniondale

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Adv. Mojankunyane Gumbi, Legal Advisor to the President’s Office (1999) and director of the Women’s Development Bank, is born i

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The Sudanese government and rebel group Sudan People’s Liberation Army reach a tentative deal to evenly divide the country’s oi

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Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter, who led the trekkers at the Battle of Vegkop against the Matabele (Ndebele), and

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SA exchange notes with the People’s Republic of China regarding the establishment of informal offices in Pretoria and Beijing.

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The government confirms that guerrillas are being trained for operations in South Africa from bases in Botswana and Mozambique.

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The United Nations General Assembly adopts a total of eighteen resolutions on the situation in South Africa and problems creat

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Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) commits its first acts of violence, when several buildings in Durban, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg ar

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Anglo-Boer War 2: The second Republican invasion of the Cape Colony starts under Commandant P.H. Kritzinger and General J.B.M.

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Robert Mangaliso (Wonder) Sobukwe, Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) leader who was imprisoned and under house arrest for many year

Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, is born on the farm M

Three SA cabinet ministers, Dr Sibusiso Bengu, minister of education, Joe Modise, minister of defence and Mac Maharaj, minister

Prosecutors in South Africa formally charge former Defence Minister Gen. Magnus Malan and nineteen others with the murders of t

Frank Chikane, former secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches and current politician, is born in Johannesbur

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, is born in Bloemfontein, OFS.

Moses Josiah Madiba, author, educationist and first African chancellor of the University of the North, dies in Seshego, Pieters

Voortrekker leaders Andries Hendrik Potgieter and Gerrit (Gert) Maritz, each with his own men, leave for Western Transvaal to p

Lord Lugard, leading the expedition of the Royal Niger Company in West Africa, claims a protectorate over Nikki and Bussa.

C. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist who was commemorated in the botanical names Aloe lettae and Crassula lettae, is born in S

Johann Franz (Hans) Endler, composer, director and co-founder of the Stellenbosch music conservatory, is born in Mohrau, Austri

Commodore Dieter Gerhardt, former commanding officer of the Simonstown naval base, and his wife Ruth Gerhardt, are sentenced to

Winnie Mandela is banned for a further five years and continues to be restricted to the small town of Brandfort.

The Minister of Bantu Education announces moves towards the introduction of free and compulsory education for Blacks. This is t

Molly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner widely respected by Blacks, is killed in a car accident near Hu

Commandant Gideon Scheepers is found guilty on several charges by a British court martial and sentenced to death. He professes

Tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia. More than 125,000 people, including several South African touris

The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students (C

The Security Police detain the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students

Libya declares its independence as a constitutional and hereditary monarchy under King Idris I. It is the first country to achi

Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers, lexicographer, educationist and author, is born on the farm Saxenburg, near Kuils River, Ste

Pieter Cornelis Schoonees, lexicographer and member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, is born in Uniondale

Adv. Mojankunyane Gumbi, Legal Advisor to the President’s Office (1999) and director of the Women’s Development Bank, is born i

The Sudanese government and rebel group Sudan People’s Liberation Army reach a tentative deal to evenly divide the country’s oi

Voortrekker leader Andries Hendrik Potgieter, who led the trekkers at the Battle of Vegkop against the Matabele (Ndebele), and

SA exchange notes with the People’s Republic of China regarding the establishment of informal offices in Pretoria and Beijing.

The government confirms that guerrillas are being trained for operations in South Africa from bases in Botswana and Mozambique.

The United Nations General Assembly adopts a total of eighteen resolutions on the situation in South Africa and problems creat

Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) commits its first acts of violence, when several buildings in Durban, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg ar

Anglo-Boer War 2: The second Republican invasion of the Cape Colony starts under Commandant P.H. Kritzinger and General J.B.M.