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Winnie Mandela is given a six-month suspended sentence for defying a banning order. She is to appear in court on 16 November 19

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It is officially confirmed that one of nineteen Indians detained, Ahmed Timol, a Muslim teacher, has jumped to his death from t

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Colonel Christophe Soglo, army chief-of-staff, in Dahomey [now Benin] finally establishes himself as military president after d

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The United Nations General Assembly Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee approves a Declaration on the Elimination of Al

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Walter Sisulu attends a gathering in the form of a party at the house of Lilian Ngoyi. He is, together with Lilian Ngoyi and Al

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Israeli troops invade Sinai Peninsula, later to be joined by British and French forces, following Egypt’s seizure of the Suez C

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Peter Rudolph Carlstein, SA cricket player, is born in Klerksdorp.

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Gen. Constand Laubscher Viljoen, former head of the SADF and leader of the Vryheidsfront, is born in Standerton, Eastern Transv

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The influenza epidemic, which claimed thousands of lives in South Africa, rages at its height in Cape Town.

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Johannes Hendrikus Lambertus Kock (Jan Hendrik), Voortrekker commandant, wagon-builder, farmer and politician, is born in Graaf

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Financier and industrialist Harry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley. He became chairperson of the Anglo American Corpo

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George Arthur Heard, SA journalist, is born.

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The German East Africa Company cedes its territorial rights to Germany.

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Chief Mqikela, eldest son of Chief Faku, and chief of East Pondoland, dies in Qaukeni.

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Explorer Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingston at Ujij and utters the famous words “Dr Livingstone, I presume.”

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Maria de la Queillerie van Riebeeck, wife of Jan van Riebeeck who accompanied him to the Cape of Good Hope, is born in Rotterda

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World Internet Day.

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Humphrey Khoza, 59, dies in a car accident on the N12. He was a director of Primedia and Mpande Resources, the former chief exe

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About 10 000 taxi operators march to the Union Buildings, in Pretoria to hand over a memorandum of their grievances and members

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The Johannesburg International Airport is officially renamed OR Tambo International Airport by President Mbeki.

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In Dass, Nigeria, pregnant Hajara Ibrahim, 29, appears before an Islamic court to hear her lawyer launch an appeal against her

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Delegates from the Congress of SA Trade Unions mission to Zimbabwe are left at the Beit Bridge border post by Zimbabwean police

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An apartment block in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis collapses, killing sixty-four. The owner is later sentenced to a seven-yea

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Fourteen people die when a group of over 100 armed men, allegedly IFP members, attack residents, vehicles and houses in Gcilima

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Vusi Tshabalala, Thokoza township civic leader, is shot by gunmen while walking in Thokoza, PWV.

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Reggie Hadebe, ANC Natal midlands deputy chair, is gunned down in an ambush on a vehicle transporting senior ANC officials in R

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On the same day the Patriotic Front tables its demand for i.a. an interim government, the minister of constitutional developmen

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At the end of a Patriotic/United Front Conference held in Durban and attended by some ninety organisations, participants adopt

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Political assassination: a gunman in Durban shoots Rev. Wallace Ngcibi of the Methodist Church.

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The African National Congress Youth League is re-established in Soweto after a thirty-year absence from the South African polit

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Winnie Mandela is given a six-month suspended sentence for defying a banning order. She is to appear in court on 16 November 19

It is officially confirmed that one of nineteen Indians detained, Ahmed Timol, a Muslim teacher, has jumped to his death from t

Colonel Christophe Soglo, army chief-of-staff, in Dahomey [now Benin] finally establishes himself as military president after d

The United Nations General Assembly Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee approves a Declaration on the Elimination of Al

Walter Sisulu attends a gathering in the form of a party at the house of Lilian Ngoyi. He is, together with Lilian Ngoyi and Al

Israeli troops invade Sinai Peninsula, later to be joined by British and French forces, following Egypt’s seizure of the Suez C

Peter Rudolph Carlstein, SA cricket player, is born in Klerksdorp.

Gen. Constand Laubscher Viljoen, former head of the SADF and leader of the Vryheidsfront, is born in Standerton, Eastern Transv

The influenza epidemic, which claimed thousands of lives in South Africa, rages at its height in Cape Town.

Johannes Hendrikus Lambertus Kock (Jan Hendrik), Voortrekker commandant, wagon-builder, farmer and politician, is born in Graaf

Financier and industrialist Harry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley. He became chairperson of the Anglo American Corpo

George Arthur Heard, SA journalist, is born.

The German East Africa Company cedes its territorial rights to Germany.

Chief Mqikela, eldest son of Chief Faku, and chief of East Pondoland, dies in Qaukeni.

Explorer Henry Morton Stanley meets David Livingston at Ujij and utters the famous words “Dr Livingstone, I presume.”

Maria de la Queillerie van Riebeeck, wife of Jan van Riebeeck who accompanied him to the Cape of Good Hope, is born in Rotterda

World Internet Day.

Humphrey Khoza, 59, dies in a car accident on the N12. He was a director of Primedia and Mpande Resources, the former chief exe

About 10 000 taxi operators march to the Union Buildings, in Pretoria to hand over a memorandum of their grievances and members

The Johannesburg International Airport is officially renamed OR Tambo International Airport by President Mbeki.

In Dass, Nigeria, pregnant Hajara Ibrahim, 29, appears before an Islamic court to hear her lawyer launch an appeal against her

Delegates from the Congress of SA Trade Unions mission to Zimbabwe are left at the Beit Bridge border post by Zimbabwean police

An apartment block in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis collapses, killing sixty-four. The owner is later sentenced to a seven-yea

Fourteen people die when a group of over 100 armed men, allegedly IFP members, attack residents, vehicles and houses in Gcilima

Vusi Tshabalala, Thokoza township civic leader, is shot by gunmen while walking in Thokoza, PWV.

Reggie Hadebe, ANC Natal midlands deputy chair, is gunned down in an ambush on a vehicle transporting senior ANC officials in R

On the same day the Patriotic Front tables its demand for i.a. an interim government, the minister of constitutional developmen

At the end of a Patriotic/United Front Conference held in Durban and attended by some ninety organisations, participants adopt

Political assassination: a gunman in Durban shoots Rev. Wallace Ngcibi of the Methodist Church.

The African National Congress Youth League is re-established in Soweto after a thirty-year absence from the South African polit