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The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid resumes its meetings and decides to draft an appeal to the Se
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The first return fleet from Batavia to receive fresh produce on its way to the Netherlands arrives in Table Bay. Van Riebeeck s
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The General Laws Amendment Bill of 1966 is published. The bill entitles police officers to detain up to fourteen days anyone su
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On the fourth anniversary of the Partnership Against AIDS, a campaign initiated by the Cabinet, an appeal is made to all to bui
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It is announced in Rawalpindi that the government of Pakistan has decided to ban all exports from Pakistan to South Africa and
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The South African Police (SAP) take over control of the municipal police. The aim is to render a better service to the communit
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Janet Soga (neé Burnside) dies in Glasgow, Scotland. She married Tito Yoga, the first Black man to be ordained to the Ch
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The Minister of Justice asks for an extension of emergency powers granted to one area troubled by faction fighting to the entir
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Anglo-Boer War 2: At a joint secret meeting of the ZAR’s First and Second Volksrade, the motion to issue the ultimatum to Brita
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Henry Francis Fynn, pioneer, settler and member of the Farewell expedition to Shaka with a view to open up an ivory trade with
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Henry Francis Fynn, pioneer, settler and member of the Farewell expedition to Shaka with a view to open up an ivory trade with
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About 2 000 slave owners meet in Cape Town to complain against new slave regulations to be implemented at the Cape, claiming th
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Under the London Convention, Britain agrees on this day to pay five million sterling to the United Netherlands for the Dutch po
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More than 35 000 people force central Cape Town to a standstill as they march peacefully from St George’s Cathedral to the city
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At least 172 people are slain in Algeria in three incidents believed linked to the country’s upcoming election and to the long,
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Health Minister Tshabalala-Msimang announces that SA pledges R20 million to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria,
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The United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, pays a two-day visit to South Africa at the invitation of Har
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The UN’s High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has predicted that 1,200,000 people in Ethiopia are about to starve to death.
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104 miners are crushed to death when an elevator carrying gold miners plunges to the bottom of a Vaal Reef mineshaft near Orkne
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Abram (Bram) Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy with the ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe to commit
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A section of railway line is blown up near Hoedspruit, Northern Transvaal, in what is believed to be an ANC attack to coincide
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Sierra Leone rebels seize peacekeepers from Zambia, raising to more than 300 the number of UN personnel they are believed to be
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News24 reports that Iraq is the most dangerous place to be a journalist, followed by Cuba and Zimbabwe, according to the Commit
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The first company to be indicted under the US Anti-Apartheid Act pleads guilty to importing four used jet-aircraft engines from
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At a public meeting in Rustenburg, Pres. Kruger reaffirms his intention to revise the Franchise Act of the ZAR and to make cert
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The British ship Fairholine, en route from Calcutta to New York, runs ashore to the east of Buffels Bay, Cape south coast.
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The ANC decides not to hold talks with the South African government scheduled for 11 April, due to the killing of defenceless d
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The Belvedere arrives in the Durban harbour with 318 Indian labourers, the second group to arrive to work on the sugar plantati
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The United States withdraws the last of three C-130 transport planes sent to Congo in July to help the Kinshasa government airl
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