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Makhaya Ntini, SA cricket player, is born in Mdingi, near King William’s Town, Eastern Cape

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The Coloured Labour Party strengthens its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Representative Counc

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The South African Government annuls the regulation that African pupils be instructed equally in English and Afrikaans, and issu

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Comoros gains independence from France (Archipel des Comores), except for the island of Mayotte, which remains a French Oversea

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It is reported that Israel and South Africa are increasing their cooperation and contacts in the military sphere, and negotiati

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Kamuzu Banda is sworn in as Life President of Malawi.

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The British Conservative government’s intention to resume arms supplies to SA is announced in the House of Commons. Other Commo

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The Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra. The war claimed some 600,000 lives. About 1 million di

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Malawi gains independence from Britain (was Nyasaland, then federated with Northern and Southern Rhodesia between 1953 and 1963

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Fietas, Johannesburg: Mr. Mahomed Suliman Bhana, who had been active in the TIYC and is outspoken against apartheid policies, i

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Robert McBride, ANC member who planted a bomb in Magoo’s Bar, Durban, and later became Ekurhuleni metro police chief, is born i

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Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act No 52 commences.

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160 Passive Resisters are serving jail sentences.

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I.B. Tabata requests Professor Davidson Don Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu to attend a meeting of the All African Convention (AAC) of

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The Instituut vir Opvoeding en Onderwys (Institute for education and teaching) is founded in Bloemfontein during the National C

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Melius de Villiers (88), chief justice of the Orange Free State, dies in Stellenbosch.

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Bessie Amelia Head, novelist, short story writer and social historian is born in Pietermaritzburg. Being the daughter of a Wh

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Arab horsemen led by British officer T.E. Lawrence also known as Lawrence of Arabia capture the heavily garrisoned Turkish fort

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Second-Lieutenant William Nimmo Brown of the 1st SA Infantry is killed in the Battle of the Somme and becomes the first South A

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Audrey Blignault, Afrikaans author and essayist, is born in Bredasdorp, CP.

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Moiloa II (Moilwa) (born c. 1795), chief of the Moiloa clan of the Hurutshe from 1846-1875 who, through shrewd political action

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The Pretoria Rifle Corps is founded under Stephanus Schoeman as a volunteer corps to defend Pretoria and surroundings. The loca

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Kausobson Kausob, chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the ninetee

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Sir John Francis Cradock, soldier and governor of the Cape 1811-1814, dies in Grimston, Yorkshire.

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Sir Andries Stockenstr&ouml;m, landdros of Graaff-Reinet (as his father had been) and later commissioner-general of the Eastern

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National day of Malawi.

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Poppie Bereng, who works as a phlebotomist for the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) in Bloemfontein, is appointed p

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SA’s Constitutional Court orders President Mbeki to provide the antiretroviral drug Nevirapine to pregnant women in state hospi

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The UN Security Council imposes an eighteen-month diamond ban on Sierra Leone’s rebels in a bid to strangle their ability to fi

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Michael de Morgan (73), one of the first SABC television newsreaders, dies.

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Makhaya Ntini, SA cricket player, is born in Mdingi, near King William’s Town, Eastern Cape

The Coloured Labour Party strengthens its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Representative Counc

The South African Government annuls the regulation that African pupils be instructed equally in English and Afrikaans, and issu

Comoros gains independence from France (Archipel des Comores), except for the island of Mayotte, which remains a French Oversea

It is reported that Israel and South Africa are increasing their cooperation and contacts in the military sphere, and negotiati

Kamuzu Banda is sworn in as Life President of Malawi.

The British Conservative government’s intention to resume arms supplies to SA is announced in the House of Commons. Other Commo

The Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra. The war claimed some 600,000 lives. About 1 million di

Malawi gains independence from Britain (was Nyasaland, then federated with Northern and Southern Rhodesia between 1953 and 1963

Fietas, Johannesburg: Mr. Mahomed Suliman Bhana, who had been active in the TIYC and is outspoken against apartheid policies, i

Robert McBride, ANC member who planted a bomb in Magoo’s Bar, Durban, and later became Ekurhuleni metro police chief, is born i

Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act No 52 commences.

160 Passive Resisters are serving jail sentences.

I.B. Tabata requests Professor Davidson Don Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu to attend a meeting of the All African Convention (AAC) of

The Instituut vir Opvoeding en Onderwys (Institute for education and teaching) is founded in Bloemfontein during the National C

Melius de Villiers (88), chief justice of the Orange Free State, dies in Stellenbosch.

Bessie Amelia Head, novelist, short story writer and social historian is born in Pietermaritzburg. Being the daughter of a Wh

Arab horsemen led by British officer T.E. Lawrence also known as Lawrence of Arabia capture the heavily garrisoned Turkish fort

Second-Lieutenant William Nimmo Brown of the 1st SA Infantry is killed in the Battle of the Somme and becomes the first South A

Audrey Blignault, Afrikaans author and essayist, is born in Bredasdorp, CP.

Moiloa II (Moilwa) (born c. 1795), chief of the Moiloa clan of the Hurutshe from 1846-1875 who, through shrewd political action

The Pretoria Rifle Corps is founded under Stephanus Schoeman as a volunteer corps to defend Pretoria and surroundings. The loca

Kausobson Kausob, chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the ninetee

Sir John Francis Cradock, soldier and governor of the Cape 1811-1814, dies in Grimston, Yorkshire.

Sir Andries Stockenstr&amp;ouml;m, landdros of Graaff-Reinet (as his father had been) and later commissioner-general of the Eastern

National day of Malawi.

Poppie Bereng, who works as a phlebotomist for the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) in Bloemfontein, is appointed p

SA’s Constitutional Court orders President Mbeki to provide the antiretroviral drug Nevirapine to pregnant women in state hospi

The UN Security Council imposes an eighteen-month diamond ban on Sierra Leone’s rebels in a bid to strangle their ability to fi

Michael de Morgan (73), one of the first SABC television newsreaders, dies.

Sir Andries Stockenström, landdros of Graaff-Reinet (as his father had been) and later commissioner-general of the Eastern