General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… wins 117 seats with 820,968 votes cast. The UP wins forty-seven seats with 561,647 votes cast. The Progressive Party … reading at a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament. Seven different African languages will thus be given official … Eglin , together with Helen Suzman , undertake a visit to seven black African states. 4 October, Chief Leabua Jonathan, …