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… The SA government imposes a state of emergency on Black townships hit by savage fighting. …

… Secretary-General U Thant to help obtain the release of Nelson Mandela. …

… French forces force the Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, from the throne.  …

… Petrus Johannes Denyssen, judge of the Cape Supreme Court, is born in Cape Town. …

… The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall arrive in Cape Town on board the Ophir. …

… Willem Stephanus van Ryneveld (47), member of the Political Council, dies in Cape Town.  …

… The second draft of the Interim Constitution is tabled, giving exclusive …

… ”To All Leaders of the African People”. Statement by J. T. Gumede, President, …

… Report on proceedings and resolutions of the Dutch Reformed Church Conference, February 3, 1927 …

… Testimony of J. Tengo Jabavu, before the Select Committee on Native …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The Opposition press strongly attacks the detention of four journalists under the Terrorism Act. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … announced, establishing the Uranium Enrichment Corporation of South Africa. …

… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … The government gives limited powers of internal self-government to ‘homeland’, Damaraland, in …

… Document 113 - National Liberation League of South Africa, Honesty is the Best Policy (c. 1938) …

… The impact of the First World War on the Indian commercial class in Natal …

… among Residents about the Past, Present and Future of the Community …

… Lunch with Mrs. Paulette Pierson-Mathy, leader of the Belgian anti-apartheid movement - 1986 …

… The Politics of the Anti-Apartheid Movement In the United States by Donald …

… Alfred Nobel, inventor of dynamite after whom the Nobel prize is named, is born …

… Anglo-Boer War 2:  The policy of concentration camps is officially sanctioned by Lord …

… Ivory Coast suspend their participation in the government of national unity. …

… The Rhodesian Appeal Court recognises the legality of Rhodesian Government, headed by Ian Smith. …

… The mayor of Cape Town, Hyman Lieberman, opens the large synagogue in …

… Sir Sydney Smith Bell (74), chief justice of the Cape Colony, dies in London. …

… Jacob Mofokeng, cruiserweight boxer of SA, wins the World Boxing Union world champion title. …

… Brian Duddy (55), victim of the Planet Hollywood bomb attack, dies in Cape Town. …

… order prohibiting journalists from reporting actions of security forces. …

… Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences … H.F. Verwoerd is elected as prime minister in succession of Adv. J.G. Strijdom. …

… (1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee. … Godfrey Thuso Phuso, high school pupil of Pimville, is shot dead by a passing motorist. …

… Frances Beatrice Marshoff, Premier of Free State Province since 22 April 2004, is born. …