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The SA rugby team beats Australia 19-11 in Sydney.
Paul de Waal, SA rugby Springbok, is born in Stellenbosch.
Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses 0-2 in a home game.
Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses 0-2 in a home game.
EventJoyce Barker, SA soprano, is born in Mooi River, Natal.
On 6 June 1931 Joyce Barker was born at Mooi River in the Natal Midlands. At the age of nineteen she started training under Daisy Holmes in Durban. Barker made…
The Red Cross of SA institutes its emergency rescue unit.
Bobby Hendricks (63), SA saxophone player, dies in Cape Town.
James Norval, SA actor, is born in Zastron, Free State.
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
On June 9, 1964, just two days before the final verdict was reached, the UN Security Council passed a resolution urging the South African government to end the…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
Location: back to this day in history search archive South Africa received a mandate from the League of Nations over South West Africa (SWA) on 17 December…
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
Andries Gerhardus Visser was born on 1 March 1878 on the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot Memorial…
EventInternational Conference on Sports Boycott against SA commences in Paris
On 16 May 1985, The International Conference on Sports Boycott against South Africa started their three-day conference at UNESCO House in Paris, France. The…
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
Following the outbreak of pandemonium in South Africa and the use of violence by security forces in dealing with the issues in suppressing the aspirations of…
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
The Union Defence Force was created in 1912 and served as the South African Army. It was renamed as the South African Defence Force (SADF) by the passing of…
EventThe SA Cricket team is re-admitted to international cricket
On 10 November 1991, the South African cricket team, now better known as the Proteas, played their debut on their return to international cricket against India…
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby’s return to international games
The African National Congress (ANC) in Harare, Zimbabwe, agreed to "use its good offices" to facilitate the readmission of South African rugby into…
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
The leaders of the four 'independent' homelands, namely; Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei, and Venda, attended a five-nation summit in Pretoria, chaired by the…
De Kock alleges that SA secret agent shot Olaf Palme
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
A year after the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner,…
EventDaniel Francois Malherbe, SA novelist, poet and dramatist, is born
On 28 May 1881, Daniel Francois Malherbe was born in Dal Josafat, Paarl, in the Western Cape (then Cape Colony). Malherbe was a novelist, poet and dramatist…
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
On 31 July 1879, the first cable connection between South Africa and Europe, via Aden, was launched. It was laid by the British electrical engineer Charles…
EventHeavy rains continue to ravage SA, Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe
On 26 February 2000, it is reported that Cyclone Eline, which struck the Southern African countries of South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique was…
Ruth First as educator: An untold story by Alan Wieder
ArchiveAn open letter to the United Democratic Front (Western Cape)
Open letter from members of the ANC to the United Democratic Front in the Western Cape on the state of organisation in the region.
ArchiveAn open letter to members of the UMSA who hav
Open letter from Wycliffe Tsotsi to members of the Unity Movement, regarding Scrape Ntshona's suspension from the movement and accusations levelled against the…
ArchiveAn appeal to the world: give purpose to this pain
This article discusses the speech delivered in October 28, 1977 to the Security Council of the United Nations during its debates by the Christian Institute of…