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The German Fifth Panzer Army under General Gustav von Vaerst begins to evacuate from Tunis. Rommel departed on 9 March.

Harold Wolpe portrait

Harold Wolpe

Marion Monica Sparg portrait

Marion Monica Sparg

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Major His Highness Prince Christian Victor Albert Ludwig Ernst Anton, heir of Norway, grandson of Queen Vic

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Jan Eloff, son-in-law of President Paul Kruger, is appointed as commissioner of Johannesburg, replacing Carl von Brandis, who w

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Basil Neo Sipho Bridgeman (Doc) Bikitshan, veteran journalist and story-teller is born in Mayfair, Johannesburg. He grows up in

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Capt. Kurt von Francois arrives as leader of a small German regiment in South West Africa to suppress the Herero rebellion.

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The International Olympics Committee (IOC) decides to re-admit South Africa to the Olympic Games. The government has made five

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WWII: Final Allied Offensive, Tunisia. General Gustav von Vaerst’s 5th Panzer Army finally surrenders on the Cape Bon peninsula

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The Chairman of the opposition Democratic Party in the Transkei, K.M. Gunzana, is elected leader to succeed Paramount Chief Vic

Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng portrait

Elizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng

Frances Rix Ames portrait

Frances Rix Ames

Diana Ferrus portrait

Diana Ferrus

Arthur Nuthall Fula portrait

Arthur Nuthall Fula

Sally Gross portrait

Sally Gross

Walter Ernest Stanford portrait

Walter Ernest Stanford

Vejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan portrait

Vejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan

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Governor Bruno von Schuckmann of German South-West Africa is succeeded by Dr Theodor Zeits, who occupied the post until 1915.

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Vic Toweel, of South Africa, sets a record for knockdowns in a title fight in Johannesburg, South Africa. He floors Danny O’Sul

Letter written by the Lord Killanin of the IOC to Frank Braun president of the South African National Olympic Committee, 1967

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The African National Congress (ANC) leads a march through central Durban, attended by up to 100,000 people, to demand their vot

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The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCL) states crime has gone far enough, and the government has to pull up its soc

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Joachim Nikolaus von Dessin (57), secretary of the Orphan Chamber in Cape Town and collector of books and paintings, dies in Ca

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SA boxer Vic Toweel loses his world bantamweight title when he is knocked out by Australian Jimmy Carruthers in the first round

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Woolf Joel (34), nephew of Barney Barnato, is shot and killed by Baron Von Veltheim because he refuses to assist in kidnapping

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Gabriel François de Vos Hugo, judge president of the Northern Cape region and champion for the use of Afrikaans in Natal schoo

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South Africa is informed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that it may not re-apply to join the world sporting body.

A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy

Abdul Samad Minty portrait

Abdul Samad Minty

Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967