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A military coup in Chad overthrows President Ngarta Tombaloaye, who is killed. Felix Malloum takes over at the head of a seven-
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240 Mobil workers in the Transvaal strike in protest against Mobil’s alleged failure to negotiate with them over intended disin
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Sierra Leone, Gambia and Gold Coast are taken over by British government to form British West Africa, administered from Freetow
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President Nelson Mandela earns worldwide praise for his role in persuading Libya to hand over two suspects accused of placing a
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Fedics (Pty) Ltd, the largest Black-owned company in South Africa’s corporate catering market, takes over the bulk of Telkom’s
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Fedics (Pty) Ltd, the largest Black-owned company in South Africa’s corporate catering market, takes over the bulk of Telkom’s
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A consensus is reached following the fall-out between leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and government over the co
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Elections to the country’s twenty-nine new Black local authorities, over the previous ten days, are met with demonstrations and
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Portuguese and Rhodesian soldiers are accused in a UN report of torturing and killing over 1,000 Africans in Mozambique during
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Joseph Kabila is inaugurated as president of the DRC. Kabila is the country’s first democratically elected president in over fo
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A press release states that during this year losses totalling over R20 million were incurred through collisions, wrecks and sin
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Sir Bartle Frere, new British High Commissioner, delivers an ultimatum to Cetewayo, Zulu chief, to disband his army, hand over
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SAA, inaugurated the previous year, takes over South-West African Airways which has since 1932 been providing a weekly air-mail
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The Swiss government sends an official protest to the South African government over the illegal activities of South African age
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The South African Tsunami Relief Fund hands over a first bulk donation of R700 000 to the International Red Cross.
BiographyChief Maqoma
"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika, King…
BiographyJim Bailey
James Richard Abe Bailey was born in London on 23 October 1919. Bailey was the son of Randlord Sir Abe Bailey and Lady Mary Bailey. He grew up on a country…
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About 10 000 taxi operators march to the Union Buildings, in Pretoria to hand over a memorandum of their grievances and members
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BBC News reports hundreds of demonstrators have protested at a game ranch in South Africa over the ill-treatment of fourteen ba
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Thirteen people are killed when a concrete bridge under construction over the Marite River at Inyaka Dam, about 10km from Bushb
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Twelve Africans on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired to take over a town and kill Whites a
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Over 5,000 soldiers supported by tanks, armoured cars and air force units begin manoeuvres in an exercise code named Operation
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Delegates from some 100 nations agree at the United Nations on a global treaty to prevent over-fishing on the high seas.
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The government instructs its Ambassador to The Hague to inform the Dutch government of its displeasure over a grant of 100,000
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WW2: Hurricanes of No.1 Squadron shoot down thirteen Ju-87s over the South African positions in the Alamein line, North Africa.
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Minister of Defence P.W. Botha announces during a press visit to the Caprivi Strip that the Defence Force has taken over protec
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A row over a fare between an Egyptian donkey boy and a Maltese man triggers a riot in the city in which several hundred people
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South African Airways is given permission to fly over the bulge of Africa for the first time in twenty-eight years.
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Government announces ninety-nine year leasehold rights for Blacks in three Cape Town townships in order to stop the riots over
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