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2 July 1778 - Jean Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher and author, whose influence was felt in the Cape Colony, dies. At the time of his death he was deranged. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1839 - African slaves being shipped to Cuba, revolt and seize the ship Amistad , leading to the eventual end of the African slave market. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul02.htm 2 July 1867 - Andrew (Andries) Abraham Stockenström le Fleur, Griqua leader ( kaptyn) and visionary, is born in Herschel, CC. (Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences Research Council, v. 5, p. 441.) 2 July 1888 - Chief Justice John Gilbert Kotzé opens The Volkshospitaal in Pretoria. Pres. Paul Kruger laid the corner stone of the new hospital, which later became the H.F. Verwoerd, two years later. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1890 - Brussels Act is passed by international conference to eradicate African slave trade and liquor traffic with primitive peoples. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1546126,00.html 2 July 1900 - Anglo-Boer War 2: British forces occupy Utrecht after the defending burgers had to retire the previous day. (Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology). 2 July 1901 - Anglo-Boer War 2: Six unarmed Boer prisoners (later called the Geyser group) are murdered by members of the Bushveld Carabineers who operated as a special British unit in the Spelonken area, not far from Louis Trichardt. (Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology). www.artsmart.co.za/drama/archive/62.html 2 July 1908 - Andries Johannes Bester de Klerk, writer and provincial secretary of the Cape Province, is born in Williston, CP. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1925 - Patrice Emery Lumumba, premier of the Congo (1960-1961), is born in Katoko-Kombe (Kasai). (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; Sesa, v. 7, p. 62). http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1935 - The SA cricket team wins its first test match on Lords against England. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1936 - Die Vaderland , first Afrikaans daily newspaper, is published in Johannesburg, with Willem van Heerden as editor. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1936 - Sir Lionel Phillips (80), mining magnate, chairman of the Chamber of Mines and politician, dies at Vergelegen, Somerset West. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; Sesa, v. 8, p. 524). 2 July 1942 - World War II: North Africa . British Commander-in-Chief (Middle East) Claude Auchinleck, acting on information obtained by Ultra, sends troops south to outflank General Erwin Rommel's PanzerArmee Afrika but hits them head-on instead. The ensuing tank battle last well into the night with Rommel's limited forces holding off the British through the use of 88 mm Flak Guns used as anti-tank artillery. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw06-5.htm 2 July 1947 - George Weideman, SA author, is born. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1963 - Cameroon closes its sea- and airports to both Portugal and South Africa. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1967 - Boerneef (Prof. I.W. van der Merwe) (70), writer and poet, dies in Cape Town. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1972 - Themba Sono is ousted as South African Student Organisation (SASO) president, in a General Student Council meeting (2 - 9 July) held in Hammanskraal. Sono stands for close co-operation between SASO and some homeland leaders. SASO advocates a radical approach towards the homeland leaders, calling them puppets of the Pretoria regime. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1982 - The Internal Security Act becomes operative. Opposition parties oppose the massive powers given to the authorities to investigate any organisation or publication. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1985 - Constitutional Affairs Amendment Act No 104 commences. It amends the 1968 Prohibition of Political Interference Act to allow non-racial political parties. Separate voters' rolls remained. However, s 3, which prohibited a political party from receiving foreign financial assistance, was re-enacted with technical amendments. The 1968 Act was also renamed the ‘Prohibition of Foreign Financing of Political Parties Act' (RRS 1985: 57). http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1988 - A car bomb explodes at the Ellis Park Rugby Stadium. Two spectators are killed and thirty-seven injured. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1990 - A week-long labour stay-away, organised by the ANC and its allies, begins in protest against factional Black violence in Natal. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek, p. 208). http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1991 - The ANC holds its first National Conference in Durban (2-6 July) after a break of more than thirty years. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1991 - The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) dissolves during its 67 th congress. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1991 - William Rantoa and Kgosimang Mafora, pro-Bophuthatswana faction, are killed when gunmen open fire on them at a bus stop in Braklaagte, Bophuthatswana. (Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 253.) 2 July 1992 - President De Klerk offers to lower the margin of approval needed for changes in South Africa's constitution from 75 per cent to 70 per cent. This issue, among others, has brought talks of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) II to an impasse. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1993 - The Plenary of the Multi-party Negotiating Process adopted by consensus 27 constitutional principles, which, along with a Bill of Rights, will be included in both the interim constitution and the final constitution to be adopted by an elected constituent assembly. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1996 - The results of the local government elections in Kwazulu-Natal indicate that Inkatha polled 44.50 percent of the votes, the ANC 33.22 percent. Ward results give Inkatha 562 seats, the ANC 512 and the NP 187. The ANC wins control of all thirteen of the province's metropolitan councils, with a combined annual budget of R5 billion. lnkatha takes control of most of the rural councils but the budget allocation is less than R100 million. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 2 July 1996 - The SA rugby team beats Fiji in Pretoria 43-18. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 1998 - After talks with new ruler Gen Abdulsalam Abubakar, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says all political prisoners will be released in Nigeria. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1546126,00.html 2 July 1999 - The 40 th person commits suicide by jumping from the Van Stadens River bridge near Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 2 July 2003 - Countries across Africa, South America and Central Asia express disappointment at a US decision to cut off military aid to dozens of them because they refuse to protect Americans from the purview of the international war crimes court. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1546126,00.html 3 July 1728 - The Middenmark is driven on the rocks in Table Bay by a strong wind and seventy-five people are drowned. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 3 July 1897 - Ludwig Wybren (Louis) Hiemstra, Afrikaans linguist and editor of the Bilingual Dictionary , is born in Lydenburg, Transvaal. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 3 July 1900 - Anglo-Boer War 2: Lord Roberts orders Col. Baden-Powell to evacuate Rustenburg and to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek. (Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology). 3 July 1900 - Anglo-Boer War 2: The British abandon Utrecht, occupied the previous day, on receiving reports of General Grobler's approach. (Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology). 3 July 1901 - Anglo-Boer War 2: A general council of war with Pres. Steyn presiding, hears the case against Barend Cilliers, accused of the murder of Lieut. Cecil Boyle. The accused is acquitted. The court finds that Cilliers had received a direct order from Gen. Philip Botha to shoot the prisoner. Gen. Botha has subsequently been killed in action. (Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology). 3 July 1909 - Willem Kempen, chairman of the Taalkommissie of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns , is born in Prieska, Northern Cape. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 3 July 1940 - WWII: The British Royal Navy sinks the French fleet in North Africa. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul03.htm 3 July 1946 - A Cape Passive Resistance Council was formed at a mass meeting in Cape Town attended by 1 500 people. Among the first to volunteer were a number of Africans. It was announced that Councillor Z. Gool would lead a Cape batch of Resisters. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 3 July 1962 - The Algerian Revolution against the French ends. Algeria eventually gains independence after 132 years of French rule. Abderrahmane Farès is appointed as President of the Provisional Executive. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul03.htm http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw06-5.htm 3 July 1963 - Extension of University Education Amendment Act No 67, amending the 1959 Extension of University Education Act and the University College of Fort Hare Transfer Act No 64 of 1959, commences. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 3 July 1965 - A restriction order is served on Harold Strachan of Durban in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act. He has already been imprisoned for three years for conspiring to cause explosions. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 3 July 1967 - The first FAK congress on school music is held in Johannesburg. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 3 July 1968 - Dangerous Weapons Act No 71, prohibiting the possession of weapons which could cause bodily injury if used in an assault, commences. The Minister of Justice could prohibit the possession or manufacture or supply of such objects. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 3 July 1969 - Twelve Africans on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired to take over a town and kill Whites are acquitted on the charge, but are given prison sentences ranging from seven to one year's imprisonment for being members of the illegal organisation, Poqo. Twelve others are acquitted. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 3 July 1976 - 103 hostages are rescued by an Israeli commando unit at the raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda in operation Thunderball (later re-named Operation Yoni). Seven pro-Palestinian guerrilla hijackers, twenty Ugandan soldiers and three hostages are killed in the raid. Also given as 4 July in other sources. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw06-5.htm http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul03.htm 3 July 1976 - Robert Brian (Bobby) Skinstad, at 22 the youngest SA rugby captain ever, is born in Bulawayo. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 3 July 1983 - John Fleming (Jack) Brock, scientist, physician and professor who developed the Department of Medicine at the University of Cape Town, dies in Cape Town. (Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.) 3 July 1984 - Johan Daniël (Bull) Hefer, professional wrestling promoter, dies in Johannesburg. (Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.) 3 July 1991 - Foreign Ministers of Kenya and SA meet in Pretoria. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 3 July 1991 - Constance Sotsu, Margaret Sotsu and Samanta Sotsu (4), relatives of COSATU official and ANC education officer Rev. Ernest Sotsu, are shot dead and the house petrol bombed. (Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 253.) 3 July 1992 - Corruption Act No 94, providing anew for the criminalisation of corruption, commences. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 3 July 1993 - The SA rugby team loses 17-18 against France in Johannesburg. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 3 July 1998 - Gene Rockwell (54), SA rock singer of Heart, dies of cancer in Roodepoort, Transvaal. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 4 July 1747 - Marthinus Adrianus Bergh, magistrate of Stellenbosch and Drakenstein and later leader of the second deputation of Patriots to the Netherlands in 1785, is born in Cape Town. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; Sesa, v. 2, p. 281). 4 July 1789 - Fearon Fallows, first Astronomer Royal at the Cape, is born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. (SESA, v. 4, p. 424). 4 July 1811 - Governor Du Pré Alexander, Earl of Caledon leaves the Cape. He was popular with the colonists and improved conditions of the slaves and the legal position of the Hottentots (Khoi-Khoi) (Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 2, p. 656). 4 July 1845 - Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Onze Jan), Cape parliamentarian, is born in Cape Town. He died in London in 1909 as member of the delegation who took the South Africa Draft Bill to England. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; Swart: Afrikaanse Kultuuralmanak.). 4 July 1849 - A meeting of the Anti-Convict Association is held in Cape Town. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 4 July 1879 - The Battle of Ulundi, decisive battle during the Zulu War, takes place with the British forces gaining the upper hand and Cetshwayo, king of the Zulus, suffers his final defeat. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; Pakenham, T. (1991). The Scramble for Africa 1879-1912 , Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball.) 4 July 1899 - Johannes Albertus Munnik (Albert) Hertzog, advocate, politician, leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party and eldest son of former SA prime minister Gen. Hertzog, is born in Bloemfontein. (Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.) 4 July 1901 - Anglo-Boer War 2: Republican General C.F. Beyers captures a troop train near Naboomspruit, Transvaal, killing nine soldiers. (Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology). 4 July 1905 - Afrikaans-speaking Boers protest that the new electorate laws favour the English-speakers, and are an example of how Boers are discriminated against. (Burne: Chronicle of the World). 4 July 1913 - Fighting breaks out as a riotous crowd on the Johannesburg market square is confronted by police and mounted soldiers during the first miners' strike. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 4 July 1936 - Despite Haile Selassie's call for the League of Nations to protect Abyssinia, the League decides to drop sanctions against Italy. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw06-5.htm 4 July 1940 - World War II: East Africa. British posts at Kassala and Gallabat, on the borders of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), Eritrea, and Sudan, are attacked and captured by the Italian Northern Army under the command of the Duke of Acosta. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw06-5.htm 4 July 1955 - Britain returns the Simonstown naval base to SA. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 4 July 1959 - Four matches are played to mark the official start of professional soccer in southern Africa. (SESA, v. 10, p. 34). 4 July 1961 - A United Nations eight-man committee with instructions to investigate conditions in the Mandated Territory of South Africa, is refused permission to enter the Territory. The minister for External Affairs, Eric Louw, announces that if members of the committee try to enter they will be detained and sent back and that this will involve the United Nations in an act of aggression. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 4 July 1961 - The Sierra Leone government imposes a ban on all trade and commerce with South Africa, as a protest against its apartheid policies. Ports and airports will be closed to all South African ships and aircraft; no White South Africans will be allowed to enter Sierra Leone; those already in the country will not be granted re-entry visas. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 4 July 1968 - A meeting of the World Council of Churches in Sweden (4 -19 July), at which the Rt Rev A.H. Zulu, Bishop of Zululand and Swaziland, Church of the Province of South Africa (Anglican) is elected as one of the presidents, starts. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 4 July 1973 - The Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative. The conditions under which Africans - for the first time - have the legal right to strike, the procedures to be followed, and the exclusion from it of certain essential services categories of workers are laid down. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 4 July 1979 - Ahmed Ben Bella, former president of Algeria, is released after fourteen years in prison. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 4 July 1983 - Professor Carel Boshoff resigns as chairman of the Broederbond. He is critical of the government's constitutional proposals, which, he says, may stimulate rather than appease racial conflict. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 4 July 1990 - Sam Mabe, PAC member and deputy editor of the Sowetan , is shot dead in a car by two gunmen in Soweto. (Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 252.) http://www.anc.org.za/anc/newsbrief/1992/news9205.22 4 July 1998 - It is announced unexpectedly that Tito Mboweni, Minister of Labour, will succeed Dr Chris Stals as President of the SA Reserve Bank in August, 1999. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 4 July 1998 - The SA rugby team beats England 18-0 on a very muddy Newlands field, Cape Town. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 4 July 2004 - Philip Rabinowitz, Polish born South African centenarian, sets a new world record by running the 100m in 28.7 seconds. Owing to a power failure the time is not electronically recorded and it is not acknowledged as a world record. (Monitor, RSG, 5 Jul 2004). 4 July 2004 - Granny Maloko Temo of Mantata near Dendron, eldest person in SA and allegedly eldest in the world, celebrates her 130 th birthday. (Monitor, RSG, 5 Jul 2004). 5 July 1802 - A German baker, Carel Christoph Pabst, starts a music school in Cape Town to train amateur musicians for his orchestra. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1822 - Lord Charles Somerset, governor of the Cape, publishes a proclamation proclaiming English as the only language to be used in courts from January 1, 1827. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1830 - The French occupy the North African city of Algiers. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul05.htm 5 July 1852 - Barney Barnato, diamond magnate and life-long member of De Beers Company, is born in London as Barnett Isaacs. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1853 - Cecil John Rhodes, SA statesman after whom Rhodesia was named, is born. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1884 - Reichskommissar (Imperial Commissioner) Gustav Nachtigal, sent by Bismarck, hoists the German flag in Togoland (now Republic of Togo). (Pakenham, T. (1991). The Scramble for Africa, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball). http://www.deutsche-schutzgebiete.de/togoland-english.htm 5 July 1901 - Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant-General Louis Botha receives a telegraph from President Kruger urging him to continue fighting. (Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology). 5 July 1905 - Horace Brackenridge (Jock) Cameron, SA cricket player in 26 tests, is born in Port Elizabeth. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1913 - Generals Louis Botha and Jan Smuts travel from Pretoria to Johannesburg to mediate in the first miners' strike. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; (Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 397.) 5 July 1921 - Gen. Jan Smuts visits Dublin to negotiate with Eamon de Valera and other Irish leaders on behalf of Britain. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1927 - Anti-Indian Legislation: The Immigration and Indian Relief (Further) Provision: Act 37/1927 becomes law and the scheme of assisted emigration comes into operation. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 5 July 1943 - Angelo Gobbato, SA opera singer and director, is born. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1959 - Ghana boycotts goods from SA. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1960 - In Congo Republic (now Zaire), the army mutinies (5-6 July) and Europeans flee from Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) area to Brazzaville (French Congo). http://www.nameyourdate.co.uk/Nameyourdate/Datepages/07031960.htm 5 July 1961 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announces it has entered into a stand-by agreement with South Africa under which South Africa may draw up to the equivalent of $75, 000,000 in various currencies, during the next twelve months. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 5 July 1961 - Indemnity Act No 61 commences with retrospective effect from 21 March 1960. This Act indemnifies the government, its officers and all other persons acting under their authority in respect of acts done, orders given or information provided in good faith for the prevention or suppression of internal disorder, the maintenance or restoration of good order, public safety or essential services, or the preservation of life or property in any part of the Republic. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 5 July 1961 - As France announces that the Sahara will not be included in its plan for an independent Algeria, 80 people are killed and another 260 injured in nationalist lead riots. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw06-5.htm 5 July 1962 - Though Algeria was declared independent by Pres. De Gaulle on 3 July, the Provisional Executive, however, proclaim July 5, the 132nd anniversary of the French entry into Algeria, as the day of national independence. http://www.onwar.com/aced/data/alpha/falgeria1954.htm 5 July 1966 - Thomas Boydell (84), British born SA minister of Post and Telegraph Systems, dies. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1969 - Thomas Joseph Mboya, statesman of Kenya, dies in Nairobi. He was born in Kenya in 1930. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; SESA, v. 7, p. 263). 5 July 1971 - The Minister of Information outlines his government's plan for the nine homelands of South Africa in London. They are to become sovereign states in their own right, independent, and entitled to maintain their own languages, cultures and identities in their own way, according to their own wishes in their own geographical territories. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 5 July 1975 - Cape Verde gains independence from Portugal ( Cabo Verde ). http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw06-5.htm 5 July 1983 - The South African Bureau of Racial Affairs (SABRA) issues a statement by Professor Carel Boshoff (Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd's son-in-law) arguing that every race group should have its own geographical sphere in which it can exercise authority - and this applies to Coloureds and Indians also. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 5 July 1985 - The Medical Council finds two White medical doctors guilty of misconduct in connection with the death of Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko, in 1977. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 5 July 1989 - Jailed leader of the ANC, Mr Nelson Mandela, meets President P.W. Botha at his office in Tuynhuis. (Sampson, A. (1999). Mandela : the authorised biography, Johannesburg: HarperCollins.) http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 5 July 1991 - The National Conference of ANC elects Nelson Mandela as its new President and Walter Sisulu as its Deputy President, while Oliver Tambo becomes National Chairman, Cyril Ramaphosa Secretary General and Jacob Zuma Deputy Secretary General. Thomas Nkobi retains his post as Treasurer General. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 5 July 1991 - Former police officer Jack le Grange's death verdict for the killing of two drug traders is put aside and he is released after three years in prison. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1992 - During a four-day consultative visit in South Africa, Commonwealth Secretary-General Chief Emeka Anyaoku says the Commonwealth is prepared to help get constitutional talks back on track. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 5 July 1993 - Twenty-two residents are killed in Katlehong and Tokoza, in ongoing township violence. (Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 266.) 5 July 1997 - The SA rugby team wins the third rugby test against the Lions on Ellis Park 35-16, but loses the series 2-1. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 1999 - Michael de Morgan (73), one of the first SABC television newsreaders, dies. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 5 July 2002 - SA's Constitutional Court orders President Mbeki to provide the antiretroviral drug Nevirapine to pregnant women in state hospitals who are infected with HIV. (The Star, July 5, 2004. Milestones). 5 July 2004 - Poppie Bereng, who works as a phlebotomist for the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) in Bloemfontein, is appointed permanently but refuses to sign the offer of employment when she learns that the SANBS racially profiles blood donations, and that Coloured and Black donors are considered as “high risk” cases. This led to a vehement debate about the policy in December 2004. SANBS medical director Dr Robert Crooks said the racial profiling of blood donations "was necessary" because it helped in assessing risk to the eventual recipients and added the policy is also in line with international practice. http://www.news24.com/City_Press/News/0,,186-187_1631239,00.html 06 July - National day of Malawi. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 6 July 1792 -Sir Andries Stockenström, landdros of Graaff-Reinet (as his father had been) and later commissioner-general of the Eastern Province, is born in Cape Town. He played a prominent part in the suppression of the Slachter's Nek rebellion. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; SESA, v. 10, p. 304). 6 July 1839 - Sir John Francis Cradock, soldier and governor of the Cape 1811-1814, dies in Grimston, Yorkshire. (SESA, v. 3, p.469). 6 July 1858 - Kausobson Kausob, chief of a group of San that inhabited the area between the Modder, Riet and Vaal Rivers early in the nineteenth century, is killed in battle near Slypklip on the Vaal River. (Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.) 6 July 1865 - The Pretoria Rifle Corps is founded under Stephanus Schoeman as a volunteer corps to defend Pretoria and surroundings. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 6 July 1875 - Moiloa II (Moilwa) (born c. 1795), chief of the Moiloa clan of the Hurutshe from 1846-1875 who through shrewd political action gained a measure of political independence from the ZAR, dies in Dinikana, Zeerust district. (Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.) 6 July 1916 - Audrey Blignault, Afrikaans author and essayist, is born in Bredasdorp, CP. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 6 July 1917 - Second-Lieutenant William Nimmo Brown of the 1st SA Infantry is killed in the Battle of the Somme and becomes the first South African officer killed in France during World War I. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 1917 - Arab horsemen led by British officer T.E. Lawrence - also known as Lawrence of Arabia - capture the heavily garrisoned Turkish fort at Aqaba. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 1937 - Bessie Amelia Head, novelist, short story writer and social historian is born in Pietermaritzburg. Being the daughter of a White mother (who was disowned by her parents and sent to a mental asylum where Head was born) and a Black father, she had a very difficult childhood. Allegedly her foster parents had rejected her at some stage because she was too Black and she was then raised in an Anglican mission orphanage. She was granted Botswana citizenship in 1979. (Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of South African Biography, v.1, Pretoria: HSRC.) 6 July 1938 - Melius de Villiers (88), chief justice of the Orange Free State, dies in Stellenbosch. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 6 July 1939 - The Instituut vir Opvoeding en Onderwys (Institute for education and teaching) is founded in Bloemfontein during the National Congress of the FAK on Christian National Education. Prof. Johannes Cornelis van Rooy is the first chairman. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 6 July 1943 - I. B. Tabata requests Professor Davidson Don Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu to attend a meeting of the All African Convention (AAC) of the Western Province in Cape Town to discuss the AAC manifesto. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1946 - 160 Passive Resisters are serving jail sentences. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1951 - Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act No 52 commences. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1963 - Robert McBride, ANC member who planted a bomb in Magoo's Bar, Durban, and later became Ekurhuleni metro police chief, is born in the Coloured section of the Addington Hospital, Durban . (Wallis: Nuusdagboek) http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1964 - Fietas, Johannesburg: Mr. Mahomed Suliman Bhana, who had been active in the TIYC and is outspoken against apartheid policies, is served a banning order restricting him from attending any political or social gatherings, from entering any location and from leaving the Magisterial District of Johannesburg. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1964 - Malawi gains independence from Britain (was Nyasaland, then federated with Northern and Southern Rhodesia between 1953 and 1963), with former Prime Minister, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, as president. It remains within the Commonwealth. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw06-5.htm 6 July 1967 - The Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra. The war claimed some 600,000 lives. About 1 million died of starvation. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul06.htm http://www.igbocsn.com/biafra.htm http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 1970 - The British Conservative government's intention to resume arms supplies to SA is announced in the House of Commons. Other Commonwealth governments are formally informed of this intention on 10-11 July 1970. Hostile reactions follow. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1971 - Kamuzu Banda declares himself president for life in Malawi. . (SESA, v. 7, p. 139). http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 1975 - It is reported that Israel and South Africa are increasing their cooperation and contacts in the military sphere, and negotiating joint economic ventures, including the construction of a major new railway in Israel, and the building of a desalination plant in South Africa. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1975 - Comoros gains independence from France ( Archipel des Comores ), except for the island of Mayotte, which remains a French Overseas Territory. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw06-5.htm http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul06.htm 6 July 1976 - The South African Government annuls the regulation that African pupils be instructed equally in English and Afrikaans, and issues new regulations leaving the choice of the medium of instruction to school principals. The announcement follows three weeks after the Soweto riots. (Muller, C.F.J. (ed)(1981). Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 534.) http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1977 - The Coloured Labour Party strengthens its position by forging an alliance with six members of the Coloured Representative Council (CRC) founded on the rejection of apartheid. Unity talks are held and it is decided unequivocally to tell the government that the present political dispensation is unacceptable. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1977 - Makhaya Ntini, SA cricket player, is born in Mdingi, near King William's Town, Eastern Cape (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). http://www.abcofcricket.com/profiles/safpp/safppmn/safppmn.htm 6 July 1979 - Six ANC exiles in Lesotho are injured in an attack in Maseru. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 6 July 1982 - Following an order granted to the KwaZulu government by the Supreme Court in Natal, officials of the Department of Cooperation and Development begin withdrawing from the disputed Ingavuma area. The Prime Minister denies that he is going to reconvene Parliament to deal with this crisis, but may exercise this option later. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1987 - A fifty-two-strong delegation, led by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert and Alex Boraine, leaves SA for talks with the African National Congress in Dakar, Senegal. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 1987 - A new Black party, the Federal Independent Democratic Alliance (FIDA) is launched to oppose apartheid and prepares to work with the government. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1987 - Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, leader of the Zulu Inkatha Movement, announces the transformation of the Movement into a multiracial political party. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1988 - Two explosions rock Windhoek. The first, in a Klein Windhoek butchery, kills one person and injures eighteen others. The second, in Katatura township, damages an army truck. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 1990 - A number of people are injured in a bomb explosion at a taxi and bus terminal in Johannesburg. Right wing complicity is suspected. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1992 - Several attacks take place on IFP members in Nyaninga, near Table Mountain. Mr Mfasheni Mkhize (56); Ntinini Mkhize (41) and Vumeleni Mkhize (45) are all shot and then burnt in their homes. http://www.anc.org.za/anc/newsbrief/1992/news9207.08 6 July 1993 - Sixteen residents are killed in Katlehong in ANC-IFP related violence. (Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 266.) 6 July 1994 - Finance Minister Derek Keys resigns and former banker, Chris Liebenberg takes his place. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 6 July 1994 - Eleven commuters are killed in a possible IFP-ANC related attack on minibus taxis and private vehicles in Germiston. (Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 266.) 6 July 1994 - The military government of Nigeria charges Moshood Abiola, the winner of an annulled presidential vote in 1993, with treason. He dies in prison in 1998. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 1998 - Thirteen people are killed when a concrete bridge under construction over the Marite River at Inyaka Dam, about 10km from Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga, collapses. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 1999 - The East Rand Proprietary Mines (ERPM) at Boksburg is granted provisional liquidation. The company announces it will be retrenching its entire workforce of 5 000. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 2003 - Liberian President Charles Taylor accepts an offer of asylum in nearby Nigeria. US President George W Bush made Taylor's departure a condition of US troops joining an international peacekeeping force in Liberia. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1549736,00.html 6 July 2004 - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan tells leaders at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa that conflicts in Africa, including the crisis in western Sudan, are holding up the fifty-three-member union's struggle to defeat poverty and hunger . (This Day, Wednesday July 7, 2004, p. 6). 6 July 2004 - President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria is elected as the new president of the African Union for a year. (This Day, Wednesday July 7, 2004, p. 6). 6 July 2004 - Botswana launches a stinging attack on Survival International, the British human rights group who supports the land claim of the Basarwa tribe (San). The San took the government to court in 2002 in an effort not to be driven out of the Kalahari reserve, their homeland for the past 20 000 years. (This Day, Wednesday July 7, 2004, p. 5). 6 July 2004 - A UN report states Sub-Saharan African women and young girls are the hardest hit by Aids. (This Day, Wednesday July 7, 2004, p. 6). 7 July 1501 - João da Nova, Portuguese navigator on his way to India, finds letters and a document in a shoe hanging from a milk wood tree at Mossel Bay. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 7 July 1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte 's army begins its march towards Cairo from Alexandria, Napoleon's desert nemesis. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul07.htm 7 July 1803 - The Commissary-General of the Cape, Jacob Abraham de Mist, in his capacity as Deputy Grand Master National, dedicates the temple of the lodge De Goede Hoop in Cape Town. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1550278,00.html 7 July 1890 - Albertus Johannes Roux van Rhijn, first chief editor of Die Volksblad as daily newspaper, member of parliament and administrator of South West Africa, is born in Vanrhynsdorp, Namaqualand. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 7 July 1922 - Jaco van der Merwe, SA baritone, is born. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 7 July 1940 - Federale Volksbeleggings Beperk (FVB) is founded. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 7 July 1943 - Henning J. Klopper is elected as member of parliament for Vredefort (OFS) and leaves the railway service. He became speaker of the House of Assembly in 1961. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; SESA, v. 10, p. 210). 7 July 1943 - Pieter Willem Adriaan Mulder (65), champion of Afrikaans, dies in Pretoria. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 7 July 1950 - Group Areas Act, No. 41 of 1950, and Population Registration Act, No. 30 of 1950, are promulgated. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 7 July 1954 - Frederick Johannes (Frikkie) Potgieter, S.A sculptor, is born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. (Rankin: Images of Wood, p. 144). 7 July 1954 - The politically oriented Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party is founded in Tanzania. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul07.htm http://www.bartleby.com/65/ta/Tanzania.html 7 July 1960 - Belgium sends troops to the newly independent Congo. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1550278,00.html 7 July 1966 - SA signs a treaty with Great Britain on the temporary waiver of the margin of preference on flat white maize. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 7 July 1967 - Federal troops are sent into Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, which declared an intent to secede on 30 May. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw07-1.htm 7 July 1970 - The Rev. David Petrus Matthys Beukes, moderator of the Dutch Reformed church, is elected as 4 th chairman of the FAK. (Swart: Afrikaanse Kultuuralmanak). 7 July 1974 - New Zealand imposes a blanket ban on virtually all visits by sports teams from South Africa. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 7 July 1976 - Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages taken on hijacked Flight 139 (an Air France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens on 26 June) is reported as still missing. It is revealed later that she was evacuated to a Kampala hospital during the early days of the hijack, and was killed by Ugandan President Idi Amin Dada's forces as retaliation for the Israeli raid on 3 July. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw07-1.htm 7 July 1985 - Government Notice No 76, providing for emergency regulations for the maintenance of law and order, commences. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 7 July 1985 - Boris Becker (17) of West Germany beats Kevin Curren of SA on Wimbledon and becomes the youngest ever tennis champion. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 7 July 1986 - After enduring more than twenty years of government banning, Winnie Mandela is freed of all state-ordered restriction. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 7 July 1987 - The director of Maputo's harbour meets SA Foreign Trade organisations to discuss a joint "master plan" to encourage SA exporters and importers to use the harbour. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1550278,00.html 7 July 1988 - Five prominent anti-apartheid activists from Cape Town are released after being detained for up to two years under the emergency, but three of them are served with restriction orders limiting their movements and activities and barring them from speaking to the press. The five are Trevor Manuel, Ebrahim Rasool, Mountrain Qumbela and Hilda Ndude, all officials of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the Western Cape region, and Mzonke Jacobs, president of the Cape Youth Congress. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 7 July 1990 - Tens of thousands of people march without incident in cities and towns across South Africa at the end of a week of action against violence in Natal called by the African National Congress, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the South African Youth Congress and the United Democratic Front. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1550278,00.html 7 July 1992 - In SA's first ever Fifa sanctioned match the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Cameroon 1-0 in an international friendly game in Durban, the first international game in more than thirty decades.(----, (2004). ‘Lucas Radebe: Footballer of the Decade,' Kick Off 1994-2004, Special Edition, p. 11, 14). http://www.dispatch.co.za/2004/05/15/Features/soc.html 7 July 1993 - Eleven residents are killed in Katlehong in ongoing township violence in Katlehong and Tokoza,. (Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 266.) (Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 266.) 7 July 1996 - In a television broadcast President Mandela confirms that he will not stand for re-election in 1999. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 7 July 1998 - Brig. Theuns Swanepoel (“Rooi Rus”) (70), one of the most feared interrogators of the SA Security Police, dies in Roodepoort. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 7 July 1998 - Nigeria's most prominent political prisoner, Moshood Abiola, dies of an apparent heart attack a few days before he was expected to be released. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1550278,00.html 7 July 2003 - US President George W Bush's administration acknowledges for the first time that Bush relied on faulty intelligence when he claimed in his January State of the Union address that Iraq had sought to buy uranium from Africa. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,,2-1602-1492_1550278,00.html 7 July 2004 - This Day reports that the SA movie, Senter, produced by students from the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance (Afda), has won the award for the best short film at the seventh Zanzibar International Film Festival of the Dhow Countries. (This Day, Wednesday July 7, 2004, p. 7). 8 July 1497 - Navigator Vasco da Gama departs from Portugal at the head of a fleet in search of a sea route to India. His fleet sailed along the coast of Africa, the Middle East, and eventually reached India almost a year later. As a result of his trip, Portuguese King Emmanuel I conferred him the title of Admiral of the Indian Ocean. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek) http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul08.htm 8 July 1658 - Herry, also known as Autshumao, Hottentot (Khoi-Khoi) interpreter and chief of the Goringhaikonas, is banished to Robben Island with two of his followers after several misdemeanours like murdering a cattle-herd and stealing cattle and also barter goods. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek; Sesa, v. 5, p. 500). 8 July 1714 - Baron Pieter van Rheede, appointed governor of the Cape who died at sea on his way to the Cape, is born in Utrecht, the Netherlands. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1752 - The expedition of August Friedrich Beutler enters Tembuland, that he enters on his map as “Tamboegies Land” . From there they turned west to the upper courses of the Fish River. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1786 - Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1883 - Ruth (Ethel) Prowse, SA artist in whose house the Ruth Prowse Art Centre was opened, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape. (SESA, v.9, p. 172). 8 July 1895 - Opening of Delagoa Bay Railway. (Burne: Chronicle of the World; The Star July 8 2004. Milestones.) 8 July 1899 - William Philip Schreiner, prime minister in the Cape Colony at the start of Anglo-Boer War 2, summarises the pressure his government has been brought to bear on the ZAR in an article in the South African News , and stresses, “We are at liberty to say that the Government regards these (Kruger's) proposals as adequate, satisfactory and as such should secure a peaceful settlement.” (Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology; SESA, v. 9, p. 529). 8 July 1904 - Gen. Louis Botha, member of the church council of the Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk , lays the corner stone of the Hervormde church in Du Toit street, Pretoria. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1908 - The largest organised trek to East Africa, under Jan van Rensburg, consisting of 70 families with 47 wagons and 70 horses, reaches Mombasa on board of the German ship Windhuk. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1920 - Britain annexes East African Protectorate as Kenya Colony. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,6119,2-1602-1492_1550943,00.html 8 July 1924 - Aubrey Rainier, SA cellist and orchestra leader, is born. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1933 - The SA rugby team beats Australia 17-3 in Newlands. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1938 - Alan Solomon, SA violist and music professor, is born. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1943 - Gerda Hartman, SA soprano, is born. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1946 - Passive Resister reported that hundreds of (Passive) Resisters had appeared before court - some on as many as five different charges. It said the government attempted to side step the real issue by charging Resisters under the old Natal Law of Trespass. The Riotous Assemblies Act was invoked against the leaders of the movement, and they were given long terms of imprisonment. Hundreds of Resisters were fined £5 each with no alternative of imprisonment. They were told that if they did not pay their fines, their property would be attached. No one, however, paid the fine. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1949 - Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act No 55, prohibiting marriages between Whites and members of other racial groups, commences. www.sahistory.org.za 8 July 1950 - General Douglas MacArthur is named commander-in-chief of United Nations (UN) forces in Korea. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul08.htm 8 July 1957 - Christiaan Maurits van den Heever (55), Afrikaans novelist, dies in Johannesburg. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1960 - The newly independent Republic of Congo's army mutinies against Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba's government. Europeans are reported to be fleeing the country. Belgium sends troops to Congo Republic. Patrice Lumumba appeals to the UN for military assistance. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw07-1.htm http://www.nameyourdate.co.uk/Nameyourdate/Datepages/07031960.htm 8 July 1961 - Malmesbury Convention of Coloured leaders (8-10 July), starts. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1961 - The Portuguese steamer Save breaks up off the coast of Mozambique, 227 people die as a result. http://www.andibradley.com/whatya/jul08.htm 8 July 1966 - Prince Charles Ndizeye, the Burundian royal heir, announces that his father, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, is to abdicate on his behalf. http://africanhistory.about.com/library/thisweek/bl-tw07-1.htm 8 July 1980 - Foreign Minister ‘Pik' Botha announces that all senior members of the South African diplomatic mission in Salisbury have been withdrawn. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1980 - Johannes P. Meintjies (57), SA painter and poet, dies. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1987 - Angolan news agency Angop reports that South African troops, backed by planes, tanks and artillery, used chemical weapons in attacks inside Angola. The SA Defence Force says the allegations are an attempt to minimise setbacks incurred by Unita victories in the area. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,6119,2-1602-1492_1550943,00.html 8 July 1988 - The government introduces the Extension of Political Participation Bill, empowering the government to divide the country into a number of regions and call elections to Legislative Council for each region through which non-homeland Blacks can articulate their political aspirations. The ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party express their opposition to these reforms. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1989 - Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee states that Prime Minister Botha and Nelson Mandela had not discussed policy matters or engaged in negotiations on 5 July, but had confirmed "their support for peaceful development in South Africa". http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1990 - Thousands of Alexandra township residents attend the funeral of activist Meshack Kunene. Security police killed him on 30 June during a welcome rally for the ANC Secretary-General, Mr. Alfred Nzo. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1990 - Dr Allan Boesak resigns from the DR Mission church after allegations of an extramarital affair. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1991 - Brig. Oupa Gqozo, chairman of the Ciskei state council, founds the African Democratic Movement and rejects unitary state. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 1991 - Foreign Minister Pik Botha signs accession to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty on behalf of South Africa. The signing opens South Africa's nuclear facilities for inspection. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,6119,2-1602-1492_1550943,00.html 8 July 1991 - South Africa opens an office of representation in Moscow. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,6119,2-1602-1492_1550943,00.html 8 July 1991 - SA signs a memorandum of understanding with Great Britain concerning drug trafficking. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1991 - Douglas Hurd, UK Foreign Secretary, on three-day visit to SA, meets De Klerk, Mandela and PAC President Clarence Makwetu. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1991 - Michael Mapongwana, chair of Western Cape Civic Association and a taxi driver taxi are killed in the taxi. (Coleman, M. (ed)(1998). A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. 253.) 8 July 1992 - SA s igns agreement with the International Committee of the Red Cross regarding visits by the ICRC to persons held in South African prisons. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1993 - SA exchanges notes with Sudan regarding the establishment of a trade representative office of the Sudan in Pretoria. http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/mainframe.htm 8 July 1993 - Seven Muslim radicals are hanged in Egypt for attacking foreign tourists in their campaign to overthrow the government. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,6119,2-1602-1492_1550943,00.html 8 July 1999 - Stephan Bouwer (50), author of television productions, cabarets and lyrics, dies in his sleep in Johannesburg. (Wallis: Nuusdagboek). 8 July 2002 - A group of about 150 women occupy the ChevronTexaco Corp oil pipeline terminal in Escravos, Nigeria, trapping some 700 workers inside in a seven-day siege. The women demand that ChevronTexaco employ their sons and provide their villages with electricity. http://www.news24.com/News24/On_this_day/On_this_day/0,6119,2-1602-1492_1550943,00.html 8 July 2004 - The third conference of the African Union (AU) selects South Africa as the seat of the future Pan African parliament. Pres. Mbeki announces that it will be erected on the site of the Gallagar Estate. (SABC. News Bulletin).
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