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… Hendrik Goosen, captain of the fishing boat Nerine, catches a coelacanth near East …

… Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 3, p. 256. … Dr Geoffrey Hare Clayton, archbishop of Cape Town, is born in Leicester, England. …

… Lord Charles Henry Somerset, governor of the Cape, is born in Badminton, England. …

… The air search for thirteen crew members of a Greek fish trawler is suspended. …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC, p. 129. … Louise (Lulu) Latsky, SA author of children’s books and zoologist, dies in Stellenbosch. …

… Arthur Chaskalson, former SA president of the Constitutional Court, is born in Johannesburg. …

… The Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) and the Republic of Lydenburg unite in Rustenburg. …

… Anne Paton, widow of Alan Paton, announces her decision to move to England. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, … SA signs protocol with India on the establishment of consular and diplomatic relations. …

… President Ahmed Sékou Touré of Guinea requests UN aid against invading Portuguese troops. …

… The Rev. Willem Postma’s Afrikaans translation of the Bible book Titus is published. …

… François le Vaillant (71), explorer of the SA interior, dies in Cézanne, France. …

… President Modibo Keita of Mali is deposed by the army in a bloodless coup. …

… Friedrich von Lindequist, new governor of German South West Africa, arrives in Lüderitzbucht. …

… Gold is discovered in former Rhodesia, 320 km south of Salisbury (now Harare).  …

… Sir Frederick Napier Broome, colonial secretary of Natal, is born in Montreal, Canada. …

… WWII: The Union of SA, Australia and the US declare war on Japan. …

… Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC. … Wilhelmina Louisa Ida (Minna) Freund, actress and teacher of elocution, dies in Bloemfontein. …

… The Battle of Platberg is fought during the Orange Free Sate-Basotho War. …

… The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, called The Central African …

… Dr Rudolph Marloth, SA collector of plants, is born in Lubben, Brandenburg, Germany. …

… The ANC accuses the SA government of ransacking its offices in Maputo, Mozambique. …

… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, … Ten people are killed in faction fighting between residents of KwaMthole and Madwaleni. …

… Sir Patrick Duncan, lieutenant-governor of the Cape, is born in Fortrie, Aberdeenshire. …

… The Rev. Pieter G. Meiring, editor of Die Kerkbode, is born in Goudini, CC. …

… (Stoffel) van der Merwe, former South African minister of Education, is born. …

… Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 179 | … Hendrik Potgieter (59), Voortrekker leader and founder of Potchefstroom, dies at Schoemansdal. …

… Life Of A Women Organiser: Mama Lydia Ngwena by Jeremy …

… Andries Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, is reburied in Pretoria after thirty-eight years. …

… Dr K. Goonam leads a batch of twelve Passive Resisters across the Natal-Transvaal border. …