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EVENTS

May - A 13 year old George Bizos with his father help 7 New Zealand soldiers escape Nazi occupied Greece to Crete

28 May - Jan Smuts , Prime Minister Of South Africa , becomes a Field Marshal of the British Army

BIRTHS

Richard Turner , activist and academic, is born in Cape Town

31 January - Eugène Ney Terre'Blanche , an Afrikaner right-wing who founded the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging , is born in Ventersdorp

DEATHS

11 June - Andries Abraham Stockenström Le Fleur , Griqua leader and visionary, dies in Krantzhoek ( Plettenberg Bay area)