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It is announced that 15 000 applications per week for gold mining permits are received in Johannesburg.
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The South African government begins removing 45 000 Bakalobeng tribesmen from a Transvaal area into the Bophuthatswana homeland
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At the Crossroads squatter camp near Cape Town, 30,000 Blacks are forcibly removed from their homes.
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After successful military operations in Sokoto and Kano Britain adds 260,000 km2 to its Nigerian territory.
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The British attack larger Italian forces in Libya by surprise, capturing 40 000 prisoners in three days.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Danish farmers donate 12 000 boxes of butter to British troops in South Africa.
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Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 metres in less than 27 minutes.
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Security Police chief, Brigadier C.F. Zietsman, announces that about 4,000 South African exiles are undergoing guerrilla traini
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The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates it will cost $40m to repatriate South Africa’s 40 000 exiles.
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Soviet dictator Josef Stalin dies. Some 2 000 people are crushed to death in the crowd during the funeral.
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The Bophuthatswana administration offers a reward of R50 000 for information leading to the arrest of Malebane-Metsing.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Ben Viljoen releases about 2 000 British prisoners of war from the camp at Nooitgedacht.
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South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front, is launched. 15 000 People attend the national lau
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The Republic celebrates its fifth anniversary with a massive military demonstration in Pretoria. A crowd of more than 500,000 s
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The first consignment of 10 000 Afrikaans Bibles arrives from London at Cape Town with the Carnarvon Castle .
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Final land consolidation proposals for Bophuthatswana are announced. They involve moving more than 120,000 Tswana people from t
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French nationalists in Algeria rebel: 40,000 French settlers have demonstrated against a proposal by Pierre Pfimlin, the French
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An estimated 250,000 Rwandans fleeing the fighting cross the border into neighbouring Tanzania in one day alone.
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UNICEF says fighting and crop failures in southern Sudan have forced an unprecedented exodus of 200 000 people.
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4,000 Black postal workers have refused to give oaths of loyalty to Ian Smith’s government in Rhodesia.
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About 25 000 people in Johannesburg are unemployed and the government announces that it has no jobs available.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Britain announces in London that more than 11 000 British soldiers have already been killed.
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World War 2: North Africa. Australian troops take 5,000 prisoners during a major assault on Italian forces at Bardia.
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SA reaches a historical milestone with more than 50% of the population receiving 6 000 free litres of water per month.
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SA reaches a historical milestone with more than 50% of the population receiving 6 000 free litres of water per month.
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President Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50 000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months.
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The Klementie Beweging (Clemency Movement) organises a march of 4,000 Afrikaner women to the Union Buildings to hand a petition
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A strike by Black municipal workers in Johannesburg ends when police supervise the removal of over 1,000 dismissed men.
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Burundi government reportedly continues to execute Hutu tribe members, and about 25 000 Hutu refugees are reported fleeing to o
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