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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade, eleven years and one day after

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Former American Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, lectures South Africans on the need for racial reform and a new Constit

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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t

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Schalk Willem Botha, vice-president of the ZAR and later acting state president upon President Paul Kruger’s departure for Euro

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Fabian Defu Ribeiro, medical doctor and community worker who fought for equality for all races, is born in Bantule, Pretoria.

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Cosatu and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) are to table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Develo

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Willem Eduard Bok, government commissioner and sub-editor of De Volksstem is born in the Netherlands. Boksburg was later na

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Allen Frances Gardiner, naval officer and missionary in inter alia Port Natal, is born in Berkshire, England. His last post w

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Angolan, Cuban, South African and United States officials meet in Cairo, in search of independence for Namibia in tandem with a

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Dr Izak David du Plessis, author, poet and chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, is born in Philipstown.

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Khedive Ismael (Ismael Pasha) is deposed and replaced by his son Tewfik Pasha due to the considerable international pressure ov

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Fourteen teachers, all from a primary school in Montsioa, near Mafikeng, are killed when their taxi burst a tyre and collide wi

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The Principal’s office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) is burnt down and the following day the same riot squad threaten officials

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James Ngcanjini Limba, leader of the Church of Christ and highly regarded by Africans, dies in New Brighton, Eastern Cape.

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Simon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to advise the dissatisfied burghers on how to be

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The UN resumes food distribution in Mogadishu, Somalia, ten days after fighting between UN troops and those of warlord Mohammed

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Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon’s Mines and other adventure stories, mostly about Africa, is born in Norfolk, E

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Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1

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Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1

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WWII: The Second South African Division under Major-General H.B. Klopper surrenders and the German force under Gen. Rommel capt

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Frans Reinhard Bresler, official of the Dutch East India Company and landdros of Graaff-Reinet, is born in Cape Town.

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The Swaziland government welcomes South Africa’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claim

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Princess Alexandrina Victoria aged 18, becomes Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland following the death of her uncle, Ki

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William Duncan Baxter and Bishop S.W. Lavis are the first receivers of the freedom of the City of Cape Town.

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About sixty armed burghers, revolting against the economic and Khoi-Khoi policy of the Company, occupy the drosdy in Swellendam

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The Minister of Justice and Police, J.T. Kruger, announces his decision to appoint a one-man judicial commission in the person

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More than a hundred Whites raid the Indian Resisters’ camp, pull down tents and smash camp stretchers. Some Resisters are injur

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The government gives its details of proposals to consolidate 157 ‘Black spots’ and sixty-eight Zulu areas into a homeland. Kwaz

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The resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Theo Gerdener, is announced and will take effect from 31 July 1972.

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The first aircraft hijacking is attempted by Chinese on a flight of Cathay Pacific. The hijacking failed and the plane crashe

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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade, eleven years and one day after

Former American Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger, lectures South Africans on the need for racial reform and a new Constit

The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet Koornhof, says that Blacks in urban areas will not have political rights in t

Schalk Willem Botha, vice-president of the ZAR and later acting state president upon President Paul Kruger’s departure for Euro

Fabian Defu Ribeiro, medical doctor and community worker who fought for equality for all races, is born in Bantule, Pretoria.

Cosatu and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) are to table a national HIV/AIDS treatment plan in the National Economic, Develo

Willem Eduard Bok, government commissioner and sub-editor of De Volksstem is born in the Netherlands. Boksburg was later na

Allen Frances Gardiner, naval officer and missionary in inter alia Port Natal, is born in Berkshire, England. His last post w

Angolan, Cuban, South African and United States officials meet in Cairo, in search of independence for Namibia in tandem with a

Dr Izak David du Plessis, author, poet and chancellor of the University of the Western Cape, is born in Philipstown.

Khedive Ismael (Ismael Pasha) is deposed and replaced by his son Tewfik Pasha due to the considerable international pressure ov

Fourteen teachers, all from a primary school in Montsioa, near Mafikeng, are killed when their taxi burst a tyre and collide wi

The Principal’s office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) is burnt down and the following day the same riot squad threaten officials

James Ngcanjini Limba, leader of the Church of Christ and highly regarded by Africans, dies in New Brighton, Eastern Cape.

Simon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to advise the dissatisfied burghers on how to be

The UN resumes food distribution in Mogadishu, Somalia, ten days after fighting between UN troops and those of warlord Mohammed

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon’s Mines and other adventure stories, mostly about Africa, is born in Norfolk, E

Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1

Dr William Nicol (79), minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, cultural leader and administrator of the Transvaal from 1948 to 1

WWII: The Second South African Division under Major-General H.B. Klopper surrenders and the German force under Gen. Rommel capt

Frans Reinhard Bresler, official of the Dutch East India Company and landdros of Graaff-Reinet, is born in Cape Town.

The Swaziland government welcomes South Africa’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claim

Princess Alexandrina Victoria aged 18, becomes Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland following the death of her uncle, Ki

William Duncan Baxter and Bishop S.W. Lavis are the first receivers of the freedom of the City of Cape Town.

About sixty armed burghers, revolting against the economic and Khoi-Khoi policy of the Company, occupy the drosdy in Swellendam

The Minister of Justice and Police, J.T. Kruger, announces his decision to appoint a one-man judicial commission in the person

More than a hundred Whites raid the Indian Resisters’ camp, pull down tents and smash camp stretchers. Some Resisters are injur

The government gives its details of proposals to consolidate 157 ‘Black spots’ and sixty-eight Zulu areas into a homeland. Kwaz

The resignation of the Minister of the Interior, Theo Gerdener, is announced and will take effect from 31 July 1972.

The first aircraft hijacking is attempted by Chinese on a flight of Cathay Pacific. The hijacking failed and the plane crashe