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Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk warns universities that their subsidies will be cut if they fail to &quot;maintain

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Riots start in Durban townships and continue up to 14 August. Seventy people, police, amabutho and activists, are killed in the

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The twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China

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United Democratic Front (UDF) dissolves.

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George Adamson (83), naturalist and husband of Joy, who wrote Born Free, and two of his assistants are killed by Somali poacher

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President P.W. Botha says ANC members can return to South Africa with “amnesty” if they reject violence.

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South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front, is launched. 15 000 People attend the national lau

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The constitutional proposals are approved by a special session of the National Party Parliamentary caucus. They are subsequentl

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At a Nordic Council meeting in Copenhagen, the Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden recommend an i

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SA announces new concession, giving urban Blacks full title to land on which they live.

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A special conference of National Party office-bearers in Pretoria endorses Prime Minister Vorster’s policies concerning the adm

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Mauritius closes her sea and airports to South Africa and Portugal.

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Israeli government informs the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid that it has taken all necessary steps to ensure th

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Senegal decides to withdraw from the Mali Federation which it has formed with French Sudan (now Mali) in 1959, and gains comple

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Andrew Khehla Lukhele, president of the National Stokvels Association, Johannesburg, is born in Johannesburg. He wrote the firs

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Simultaneous attacks by Algerian rebels against French targets in the Constantine district of Algeria have resulted in over 500

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French forces force the Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, from the throne.

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Joseph Burtt Davy (70), SA grass expert and botanist, dies in Birmingham, England.

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The Oosterlig, Afrikaans newspaper in Port Elizabeth, is published for the first time.

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The restored Cape manor house Groot Constantia is opened again after a fire devastated it in 1925.

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Helen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA.

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William Booth (83), founder of the charitable Salvation Army who works also in SA, dies.

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King Leopold of Belgium hands over the Congo to the Belgian State. Previously he held it as a private possession. The Congo Fre

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Anglo-Boer War: Colonel Ingouville-Williams’ column transports General De la Rey’s 84 year old mother to the Klerksdorp concent

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The Transvaal National Union, political organisation established to further the interests of the Uitlanders (Foreigners), is fo

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Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (later the University o

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Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, is born.

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William Henry Bell, musician, composer and first director of the South African College of Music, known to his students as ‘Dadd

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Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, landscape painter, is born near Riversdale, Western Cape.

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Former apartheid-era security police colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt dies in Port Elizabeth after a battle with cancer. Nieuwoudt was

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Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk warns universities that their subsidies will be cut if they fail to &amp;quot;maintain

Riots start in Durban townships and continue up to 14 August. Seventy people, police, amabutho and activists, are killed in the

The twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China

United Democratic Front (UDF) dissolves.

George Adamson (83), naturalist and husband of Joy, who wrote Born Free, and two of his assistants are killed by Somali poacher

President P.W. Botha says ANC members can return to South Africa with “amnesty” if they reject violence.

South African anti-apartheid umbrella organization, United Democratic Front, is launched. 15 000 People attend the national lau

The constitutional proposals are approved by a special session of the National Party Parliamentary caucus. They are subsequentl

At a Nordic Council meeting in Copenhagen, the Foreign Ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden recommend an i

SA announces new concession, giving urban Blacks full title to land on which they live.

A special conference of National Party office-bearers in Pretoria endorses Prime Minister Vorster’s policies concerning the adm

Mauritius closes her sea and airports to South Africa and Portugal.

Israeli government informs the United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid that it has taken all necessary steps to ensure th

Senegal decides to withdraw from the Mali Federation which it has formed with French Sudan (now Mali) in 1959, and gains comple

Andrew Khehla Lukhele, president of the National Stokvels Association, Johannesburg, is born in Johannesburg. He wrote the firs

Simultaneous attacks by Algerian rebels against French targets in the Constantine district of Algeria have resulted in over 500

French forces force the Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, from the throne.

Joseph Burtt Davy (70), SA grass expert and botanist, dies in Birmingham, England.

The Oosterlig, Afrikaans newspaper in Port Elizabeth, is published for the first time.

The restored Cape manor house Groot Constantia is opened again after a fire devastated it in 1925.

Helen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA.

William Booth (83), founder of the charitable Salvation Army who works also in SA, dies.

King Leopold of Belgium hands over the Congo to the Belgian State. Previously he held it as a private possession. The Congo Fre

Anglo-Boer War: Colonel Ingouville-Williams’ column transports General De la Rey’s 84 year old mother to the Klerksdorp concent

The Transvaal National Union, political organisation established to further the interests of the Uitlanders (Foreigners), is fo

Alexander Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (later the University o

Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes, is born.

William Henry Bell, musician, composer and first director of the South African College of Music, known to his students as ‘Dadd

Jan Ernst Abraham Volschenk, landscape painter, is born near Riversdale, Western Cape.

Former apartheid-era security police colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt dies in Port Elizabeth after a battle with cancer. Nieuwoudt was

Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk warns universities that their subsidies will be cut if they fail to "maintain