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Ms Benedicta Lindiwe Hendricks, Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa since 22 June 2005, is born.

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The government of President Obote of Uganda is overthrown for the second time and replaced by a military council under Gen. Tit

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Steinaecker’s corps’ prisoners taken on 21-07-1901 at Bremersdorp by Boer General Tobias Smuts, are tried and

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Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes and accomplished writer, dies in Kaya K

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Walter Sisulu appears before the Magistrate in Bloemfontein and is released on £50 bail. The case would serve before the Supre

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Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There

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Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u

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Relations between SA and the USA becomes strained by SA’s announcement that it is going to normalise full diplomatic ties with

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Victoria Mxenge, civic rights activist and wife of murdered Griffiths Mxenge, is shot dead outside her home in Umlazi, near Dur

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The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.

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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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Document 103 - Programme of the National Liberation League of S.A. as Revised and Adopted at First Congress, Cape Town, March 1937

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Document 16 - Joint Sitting of the Executive Committees of the All-African Convention and the African National Congress, 17 April 1949

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Keynote Address to the IMBIZO ON GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER: ITS LEGACY AND LESSONS, Peninsula Technikon, 29 May 2004 BY Saleem Badat

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Rev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.

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Two South Africans are appointed to a high-profile Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). The University of Na

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Five of the political detainees are released and on the same day the banning order on Dr. Beyers Naudé is lifted.

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Robert Godlonton, SA author, newspaper editor and champion for rights of the settlers on the eastern border of the Cape Colony,

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The Department of Native Affairs is renamed as the Department of Bantu Administration and Development, with its main aim to pro

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Carlos the Jackal, freelance terrorist, is arrested in Sudan and flown to Paris for trial. He is eventually sentenced to life i

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Transvaal burghers shoot Jacobus du Toit on horseback. He refused to stop when challenged. He is wounded and the horse killed.

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Gangs of armed men kill at least twenty-six commuters on a train travelling between George Goch and Denver stations in Johannes

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At least six persons are killed and 400 shacks destroyed during a night attack on a squatter camp in the township of Thokoza.

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Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, is b

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The Progressive Reform Party and the Basson group merge as the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) with Colin Eglin as party leader

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The Progressive Reform Party and the Basson group merge as the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) with Colin Eglin as party leader

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Sir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate and politician, marries Mary Westenra, pilot who was later awarded a DBE (Dame of the British

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A Rhodesian plane is shot down with a SAM 7 missile and thirty-eight of the fifty-six passengers are killed instantly, while gu

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Dr. Verwoerd clearly indicates that no Maoris will be acceptable in any New Zealand rugby team visiting South Africa in future.

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The town of Mafeking is officially surrendered by the Republic of South Africa to the Republic of Bophuthatswana, and upon its

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Ms Benedicta Lindiwe Hendricks, Minister of Minerals and Energy of the Republic of South Africa since 22 June 2005, is born.

The government of President Obote of Uganda is overthrown for the second time and replaced by a military council under Gen. Tit

Anglo-Boer War 2: Steinaecker’s corps’ prisoners taken on 21-07-1901 at Bremersdorp by Boer General Tobias Smuts, are tried and

Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes and accomplished writer, dies in Kaya K

Walter Sisulu appears before the Magistrate in Bloemfontein and is released on £50 bail. The case would serve before the Supre

Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There

Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u

Relations between SA and the USA becomes strained by SA’s announcement that it is going to normalise full diplomatic ties with

Victoria Mxenge, civic rights activist and wife of murdered Griffiths Mxenge, is shot dead outside her home in Umlazi, near Dur

The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.

Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Liberator As Prisoner And President, Dies At 95 by Bill Keller (The New York Times), 5 December 2013

Document 103 - Programme of the National Liberation League of S.A. as Revised and Adopted at First Congress, Cape Town, March 1937

Document 16 - Joint Sitting of the Executive Committees of the All-African Convention and the African National Congress, 17 April 1949

Keynote Address to the IMBIZO ON GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER: ITS LEGACY AND LESSONS, Peninsula Technikon, 29 May 2004 BY Saleem Badat

Rev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.

Two South Africans are appointed to a high-profile Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA). The University of Na

Five of the political detainees are released and on the same day the banning order on Dr. Beyers Naudé is lifted.

Robert Godlonton, SA author, newspaper editor and champion for rights of the settlers on the eastern border of the Cape Colony,

The Department of Native Affairs is renamed as the Department of Bantu Administration and Development, with its main aim to pro

Carlos the Jackal, freelance terrorist, is arrested in Sudan and flown to Paris for trial. He is eventually sentenced to life i

Transvaal burghers shoot Jacobus du Toit on horseback. He refused to stop when challenged. He is wounded and the horse killed.

Gangs of armed men kill at least twenty-six commuters on a train travelling between George Goch and Denver stations in Johannes

At least six persons are killed and 400 shacks destroyed during a night attack on a squatter camp in the township of Thokoza.

Lydia van Niekerk, professor of literature and first woman to be appointed to the chair at the University of Stellenbosch, is b

The Progressive Reform Party and the Basson group merge as the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) with Colin Eglin as party leader

The Progressive Reform Party and the Basson group merge as the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) with Colin Eglin as party leader

Sir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate and politician, marries Mary Westenra, pilot who was later awarded a DBE (Dame of the British

A Rhodesian plane is shot down with a SAM 7 missile and thirty-eight of the fifty-six passengers are killed instantly, while gu

Dr. Verwoerd clearly indicates that no Maoris will be acceptable in any New Zealand rugby team visiting South Africa in future.

The town of Mafeking is officially surrendered by the Republic of South Africa to the Republic of Bophuthatswana, and upon its