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Bantu Holomisa is dismissed as Deputy Environment and Tourism Minister. His responsibilities are assigned to former ANC Youth L

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A White House statement, issued at the end of a visit by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, states that a tentative agreement has be

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The Department of Defence is allocated some Rl0.5 billion, more than 8.7 per cent of the budget.

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QwaQwa: Police Amendment Act No 8 and Criminal Law Amendment Act No 10 commence.

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Swapo claims SA is moving military equipment and troops to the Angola-South West Africa border.

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Harold Sello Sefolo, business partner of Andrew Harold Makope who disappeared on 15 July, disappears after allegedly receiving

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Prominent anti-apartheid activists are arrested. Amongst them is Azhar Cachalia, national treasurer of the United Democratic Fr

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Defence Amendment Act No 11, incorporating the Department of Defence into the Ciskei defence legislation, commences.

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The Security Council urges Member States to adopt a wide range of economic measures against South Africa. The resolution is, ho

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The showrooms of two car companies are wrecked in Durban by bombs, believed to have been planted by ANC guerrillas.

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The Schlebusch Commission investigating a future constitution for South Africa meets for the first time. The Chairman, A.L. Sch

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The annual conference of the South African Council of Churches decides that some restrictions on interracial contact in South A

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The ‘Committee of 10’ formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to hav

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SA signs a treaty with Italy on the amendment of the air agreement of 21 May 1956.

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Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes and accomplished writer, dies in Kaya K

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The British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation,

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President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt creates a crisis by nationalising the British and French-owned Suez Canal.

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Walter Sisulu appears before the Magistrate in Bloemfontein and is released on £50 bail. The case would serve before the Supre

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King Farouk abdicates in favour of his infant son after a military coup a few days earlier.

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Kevin Volans, SA composer, is born.

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Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi of Persia, who abdicated in 1941 in favour of his son, dies in exile in Johannesburg, SA.

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Henk Temmingh, SA composer, is born.

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Wopko Jensma, SA poet and graphic designer, is born in Ventersdorp, Transvaal.

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Dr Lennox (Leslie Wongama) Sebe, chief minister of the Ciskei, is born in King William’s Town.

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The Waratah, passenger ship that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board, leaves Durban on her way to Cap

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The Rev. Stephanus Johannes Gerhardus Hofmeyr, missionary in the Soutpansberg and Rhodesia and later amongst Whites, dies at th

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Trial begins in Pretoria of nine men accused of having planned the siege of a suburban bank in Pretoria in January, in which fi

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Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There

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The state-owned Atlas Aircraft Corporation is to build an advanced subsonic fighter to be airborne in 1974.

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The Minister of Defence says that South Africa has become self-sufficient in the manufacture of arms. The country is considerin

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Bantu Holomisa is dismissed as Deputy Environment and Tourism Minister. His responsibilities are assigned to former ANC Youth L

A White House statement, issued at the end of a visit by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, states that a tentative agreement has be

The Department of Defence is allocated some Rl0.5 billion, more than 8.7 per cent of the budget.

QwaQwa: Police Amendment Act No 8 and Criminal Law Amendment Act No 10 commence.

Swapo claims SA is moving military equipment and troops to the Angola-South West Africa border.

Harold Sello Sefolo, business partner of Andrew Harold Makope who disappeared on 15 July, disappears after allegedly receiving

Prominent anti-apartheid activists are arrested. Amongst them is Azhar Cachalia, national treasurer of the United Democratic Fr

Defence Amendment Act No 11, incorporating the Department of Defence into the Ciskei defence legislation, commences.

The Security Council urges Member States to adopt a wide range of economic measures against South Africa. The resolution is, ho

The showrooms of two car companies are wrecked in Durban by bombs, believed to have been planted by ANC guerrillas.

The Schlebusch Commission investigating a future constitution for South Africa meets for the first time. The Chairman, A.L. Sch

The annual conference of the South African Council of Churches decides that some restrictions on interracial contact in South A

The ‘Committee of 10’ formed by prominent Soweto residents, issues a programme for the election of a new community board to hav

SA signs a treaty with Italy on the amendment of the air agreement of 21 May 1956.

Shadrack Fuba Zibi, chief of the Mbuto (Mbuthweni) section of the Hlubi group of tribes and accomplished writer, dies in Kaya K

The British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation,

President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt creates a crisis by nationalising the British and French-owned Suez Canal.

Walter Sisulu appears before the Magistrate in Bloemfontein and is released on £50 bail. The case would serve before the Supre

King Farouk abdicates in favour of his infant son after a military coup a few days earlier.

Kevin Volans, SA composer, is born.

Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi of Persia, who abdicated in 1941 in favour of his son, dies in exile in Johannesburg, SA.

Henk Temmingh, SA composer, is born.

Wopko Jensma, SA poet and graphic designer, is born in Ventersdorp, Transvaal.

Dr Lennox (Leslie Wongama) Sebe, chief minister of the Ciskei, is born in King William’s Town.

The Waratah, passenger ship that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board, leaves Durban on her way to Cap

The Rev. Stephanus Johannes Gerhardus Hofmeyr, missionary in the Soutpansberg and Rhodesia and later amongst Whites, dies at th

Trial begins in Pretoria of nine men accused of having planned the siege of a suburban bank in Pretoria in January, in which fi

Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There

The state-owned Atlas Aircraft Corporation is to build an advanced subsonic fighter to be airborne in 1974.

The Minister of Defence says that South Africa has become self-sufficient in the manufacture of arms. The country is considerin