On 3 April 1968, South Africa Prime Minister B.J. Vorster announced that five 'non-White' South African University Colleges will be released from their association with the University of South Africa (UNISA).

On 14 March, 1994, the Transitional Executive Council (TEC) management committee decided on a new administration for Bophuthatswana. The decision followed a widespread revolt that gripped Bophuthatswana as demonstrators demanded the reincorporation of the nominally independent homeland into the Republic of South Africa and clashed with the police. South African troops in armoured vehicles were sent into the capital of Mmabatho after around 50 people were killed and scores were injured during violent clashes in the homeland.

On 19 February 1962, the first part of the South African Press Commission's first report was tabled in parliament by the Minister of the Interior, de Klerk. The report, which had taken eleven years of planning, was made up of two volumes totalling 700 pages, with nineteen annexures running to 1,566 pages. The report strongly recommended that the South African Press association (SAPA) gives more coverage to the Afrikaans-language press. The move came two years after the country declared itself a Republic and disassociated itself from the Commonwealth of Nations.

African National Congress (ANC) leaders, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe went from house to house in Orlando, Soweto near Johannesburg rallying support amongst community members against the government's Bantu Urban Councils Act.

Richard John Maponya was born in Lenyenye in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). The founder and first president of the National Federated Chamber of Commerce (NAFCOC), Maponya is also a trustee of the Urban Foundation and the SA Foundation. Maponya studied teaching, but worked as an administration clerk instead after he qualified. He ventured into business, first by opening small grocery shops in Soweto with his wife.

The remains of Avhatakali Netshusaulu, accountant and son of the former City Press editor Mathata Tsedu, were found in the boot of his car after he had been burnt alive in a bush in Honeydew. An expert testified in court that the deceased had high levels of carbon monoxide in his blood which proves that he had been alive when he was burnt.

The Groote Kerk is the oldest Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. It is located at Church Square in Adderly Street, Cape Town. Its architecture boasts a peculiar combination of Greek and Gothic styles. The building was designed by Hermann Schutte and was inaugurated on 31 January 1841. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 28 September 1962. Beside the church’s great architecture, the other attraction that it possesses is its pulpit.

On 27 October 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During the 1940s, he enrolled at the University of Fort Hare where he became active in politics. Tambo was among those who led the student boycott at Fort Hare, calling for the formation of a democratically elected Student's Representative Council (SRC).

On 29 June 1961, during its plenary conference in Geneva, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) adopted a resolution condemning the racial policies of the South African government and calling for South Africa's withdrawal from the ILO, by 163 votes to nil, with 29 abstentions. The ILO is the international organization responsible for drawing up and overseeing international labour standards.

On 3 June 1954, a mining engineer at the Erfdeel farm in the Orange Free State pulled up a drill-core laden with ore from nearly 6,000-feet. The Essayists revealed that, based on the test, the gold ore under Erfdeel farm might be worth as much as $18,000 a ton. The discovery was declared the richest strike in South Africa's history. According to reports, no shares soared as rapidly as those of Free State Gold Areas, Ltd., the company which owned options on the 4,200-acre Erfdeel farm.