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Political assassination: Nomsa Mapongwana (34), wife of chair of the UDF affiliated Western Cape Civic Organisation, Michael Ma

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Natal state of emergency lifted.

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Ngwako Ramalepe, president of the SRC, Modjadji Teacher Training College, dies in police custody after first being assaulted by

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South African authorities hang Black activist and poet Benjamin Moloise for allegedly killing a police officer.

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Member of UK Parliament Donald Anderson, one of the Labour Party’s spokesmen on foreign affairs, told a news conference after a

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Forces of the White Rhodesian regime attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique, killing over 200 people.

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A German anti-terrorist unit storms a hi-jacked Lufthansa airliner at Mogadishu airport, Somalia. Three Palestinian terrorists

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The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 Oct), adopts a Declaration urgin

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The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), second university with its seat in Johannesburg (after the University of the Witwatersrand

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Burundi prime minister, Léopold Biha, is wounded in an attack on the King’s palace by army mutineers.

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Pope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who

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The USA urges the general meeting of the UN to denounce South Africa’s apartheid policy.

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The first general election of the Republic of South Africa is won by the National Party with 105 out of 160 seats, showing a ga

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Premier Ahmadou Ahidjo discloses that France had agreed to grant the Cameroons internal autonomy and, if supported by a referen

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Dr Stanley Makhosi Bhebhe, SA theologian and sociologist, is born.

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Eleven protestors are killed in an event arising from a defiance campaign.

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The Special Service Battalion of the defence force of the Union of South Africa is dissolved, and gymnasiums for the army, air

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Prof. Willem Blommaert (48), SA historian, dies in Stellenbosch.

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Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, dies in London.

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General J.B.M. Hertzog rebukes National Party secessionists at a party congress in Bloemfontein.

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Dinuzulu ka-Cetewayo, Zulu chief, released from prison by Gen. Louis Botha (who also saw to it that he received a farm to live

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Turkish Sultan cedes Libya to Italy under a treaty signed at Ouchy, Switzerland.

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Anglo-Boer War: In a proclamation sent to Basutoland, President Steyn explains the defensive presence of commandos on the Bas

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Ernst Berthold Grosskopf, SA journalist and author, is born in Bloemfontein.

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Percy Albert Wagner, economic geologist and author of articles on diamonds, iron, tin, platinum and the Bushveld Igneous Comple

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Mpande, king of the Zulu people and half-brother of Dingane, dies in Zululand. Another source gives the date as 19 November

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The first church building in Stellenbosch, erected at request of Governor Simon van der Stel, is consecrated.

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Abraham, son of Jan van Riebeeck, is born. He is the second White baby to be born in the fort De Goede Hoop at the Cape.

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Petra Muller, South African poet, receives the Hertzog Prize for Afrikaans literature.

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Tryna du Toit (95), Afrikaans novelist, dies in Pretoria.

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Political assassination: Nomsa Mapongwana (34), wife of chair of the UDF affiliated Western Cape Civic Organisation, Michael Ma

Natal state of emergency lifted.

Ngwako Ramalepe, president of the SRC, Modjadji Teacher Training College, dies in police custody after first being assaulted by

South African authorities hang Black activist and poet Benjamin Moloise for allegedly killing a police officer.

Member of UK Parliament Donald Anderson, one of the Labour Party’s spokesmen on foreign affairs, told a news conference after a

Forces of the White Rhodesian regime attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique, killing over 200 people.

A German anti-terrorist unit storms a hi-jacked Lufthansa airliner at Mogadishu airport, Somalia. Three Palestinian terrorists

The seventh Summit Conference of the East and Central African states, held in Mogadishu (18-19 Oct), adopts a Declaration urgin

The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), second university with its seat in Johannesburg (after the University of the Witwatersrand

Burundi prime minister, Léopold Biha, is wounded in an attack on the King’s palace by army mutineers.

Pope Paul VI proclaims 22 new African saints. The saints, known as the Blessed Martyrs of Uganda, were a group of converts who

The USA urges the general meeting of the UN to denounce South Africa’s apartheid policy.

The first general election of the Republic of South Africa is won by the National Party with 105 out of 160 seats, showing a ga

Premier Ahmadou Ahidjo discloses that France had agreed to grant the Cameroons internal autonomy and, if supported by a referen

Dr Stanley Makhosi Bhebhe, SA theologian and sociologist, is born.

Eleven protestors are killed in an event arising from a defiance campaign.

The Special Service Battalion of the defence force of the Union of South Africa is dissolved, and gymnasiums for the army, air

Prof. Willem Blommaert (48), SA historian, dies in Stellenbosch.

Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, dies in London.

General J.B.M. Hertzog rebukes National Party secessionists at a party congress in Bloemfontein.

Dinuzulu ka-Cetewayo, Zulu chief, released from prison by Gen. Louis Botha (who also saw to it that he received a farm to live

Turkish Sultan cedes Libya to Italy under a treaty signed at Ouchy, Switzerland.

Anglo-Boer War: In a proclamation sent to Basutoland, President Steyn explains the defensive presence of commandos on the Bas

Ernst Berthold Grosskopf, SA journalist and author, is born in Bloemfontein.

Percy Albert Wagner, economic geologist and author of articles on diamonds, iron, tin, platinum and the Bushveld Igneous Comple

Mpande, king of the Zulu people and half-brother of Dingane, dies in Zululand. Another source gives the date as 19 November

The first church building in Stellenbosch, erected at request of Governor Simon van der Stel, is consecrated.

Abraham, son of Jan van Riebeeck, is born. He is the second White baby to be born in the fort De Goede Hoop at the Cape.

Petra Muller, South African poet, receives the Hertzog Prize for Afrikaans literature.

Tryna du Toit (95), Afrikaans novelist, dies in Pretoria.