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FW de Klerk meets Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko to try to forge a joint emergency strategy to rescue the teetering Angolan

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The Satour office in Paris is ransacked by youths belonging to a communist group.

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The mutilated body of Toto Dweba, UDF and member of the Natal Freedom Charter Committee, is found at the Natal North Coast.

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The World Alliance of Reformed (Presbyterian and Congregational) Churches (WARC) suspends the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (N

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Confrontation between South Africa and Transkei over the deportation and return to Transkei of squatters from the Cape Town are

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Zimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations.

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Talks between Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the African National Council start in a r

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The Prime Minister warns the opposition parties, the United Party and Progressive Party that his government may have to end int

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Harry Schwarz wins the Transvaal party leadership of the United Party (UP) from Marais Steyn.

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The leader of the Zulu Territorial Authority, Chief Buthelezi, calls for a National Convention of all races in South Africa to

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Kenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964.

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Geoffrey Bongumusa Mduduzi Bhengu, member of parliament for the Inkatha Freedom Party and chairman of several commercial enterp

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Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former commissioner of the SA police, is born in Ermelo, Tvl.

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Dorothea (Anne) Fairbridge (69), author of historical fiction and non-fiction, dies in Cape Town.

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Ellen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and leading executive member of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SA

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Anglo Boer War 2: In terms of martial law regulations, the veteran Cape politician, John X Merriman, is confined to his farm ne

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Lord Roberts issues instructions for the final mop-up of guerrillas or ‘rebels’ (i.e. burghers engaged in fighting after the ‘a

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Anglo-Boer War 2: President Steyn arrives at Waterval-Onder to meet President Kruger.

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The Galeler, 446 ton, of Norway, is stranded west of Danger Point, near Mossel Bay.

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The first 25 families from Germany arrive at Swakopmund, German South West Africa (Namibia).

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Sir Thomas Muir, educationist, mathematician and superintendent-general of education in the Cape Colony, is born in Lanarkshire

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Elizabeth Dijkman, author of the first Afrikaans cookery book, is born.

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The 600-ton cargo ship The Duke of Northumberland, en route from Madras to London, is wrecked near Cape Agulhas, CC. No lives a

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Commander Simon van der Stel departs on his long journey to Namaqualand.

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Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h

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Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h

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SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia, with one gold and two bro

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An SADF officer shoots five fellow members in their sleep on a farm near Fouriesburg, Free State.

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An SADF officer shoots five fellow members in their sleep on a farm near Fouriesburg, Free State.

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At least 633 people are killed in genocide in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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FW de Klerk meets Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko to try to forge a joint emergency strategy to rescue the teetering Angolan

The Satour office in Paris is ransacked by youths belonging to a communist group.

The mutilated body of Toto Dweba, UDF and member of the Natal Freedom Charter Committee, is found at the Natal North Coast.

The World Alliance of Reformed (Presbyterian and Congregational) Churches (WARC) suspends the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (N

Confrontation between South Africa and Transkei over the deportation and return to Transkei of squatters from the Cape Town are

Zimbabwe becomes a member of the United Nations.

Talks between Southern Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the African National Council start in a r

The Prime Minister warns the opposition parties, the United Party and Progressive Party that his government may have to end int

Harry Schwarz wins the Transvaal party leadership of the United Party (UP) from Marais Steyn.

The leader of the Zulu Territorial Authority, Chief Buthelezi, calls for a National Convention of all races in South Africa to

Kenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964.

Geoffrey Bongumusa Mduduzi Bhengu, member of parliament for the Inkatha Freedom Party and chairman of several commercial enterp

Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former commissioner of the SA police, is born in Ermelo, Tvl.

Dorothea (Anne) Fairbridge (69), author of historical fiction and non-fiction, dies in Cape Town.

Ellen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and leading executive member of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SA

Anglo Boer War 2: In terms of martial law regulations, the veteran Cape politician, John X Merriman, is confined to his farm ne

Lord Roberts issues instructions for the final mop-up of guerrillas or ‘rebels’ (i.e. burghers engaged in fighting after the ‘a

Anglo-Boer War 2: President Steyn arrives at Waterval-Onder to meet President Kruger.

The Galeler, 446 ton, of Norway, is stranded west of Danger Point, near Mossel Bay.

The first 25 families from Germany arrive at Swakopmund, German South West Africa (Namibia).

Sir Thomas Muir, educationist, mathematician and superintendent-general of education in the Cape Colony, is born in Lanarkshire

Elizabeth Dijkman, author of the first Afrikaans cookery book, is born.

The 600-ton cargo ship The Duke of Northumberland, en route from Madras to London, is wrecked near Cape Agulhas, CC. No lives a

Commander Simon van der Stel departs on his long journey to Namaqualand.

Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h

Tony Yengeni, former ANC chief whip and veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, sentenced to four years for fraud, toyi-toyis h

SA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia, with one gold and two bro

An SADF officer shoots five fellow members in their sleep on a farm near Fouriesburg, Free State.

An SADF officer shoots five fellow members in their sleep on a farm near Fouriesburg, Free State.

At least 633 people are killed in genocide in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.