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The Star reports that poor management of SANDF equipment and the theft of weapons that ended up in rebels’ hands are fuelling t
About sixty people have been injured in an accident involving a bus and a truck on the N1 south, near Murrayhill, north of Pret
Zimbabwean authorities are considering moving elephants from the country’s overburdened national parks to Namibia after at leas
EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe
The Blue Bulls of Northern Transvaal beat the Western Province 24-20 on Loftus and win the Currie Cup.
Tutu threatens to quit TRC.
The National Assembly passes legislation providing for abortion on demand within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and for te
Nigerian political activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa is one of eight people sentenced to death for the death of four Ogoni leaders (who d
Professor Sibusiso Bhengu, Education Minister, says that Government will cut funding for White schools as part of a plan to ach
More than 300 people are killed in renewed fighting as Angola slides back into civil war.
Five American nuns in Liberia are shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings are blamed on rebels loyal to Charles T
Zambia holds its first multiparty elections, with Frederick Chiluba winning over independence leader and first president, Kenne
SA signs an aviation security agreement with the government of the USA.
Rosalie van der Gught, theatre director, actor and head of the Speech and Drama Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT)
Internal Security Amendment Act No 22, prohibiting any meeting of more than twenty persons to be held without the permission of
Draft laws are gazetted providing some benefits for Black people. These include greatly increased mobility and security of tenu
On this day there are 178 restricted people in SA.
A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched following a shoot-out between police
Rhodesian commandos launch a raid across the border into Mozambique.
Cobus Visagie, SA rugby Springbok, is born in Stellenbosch.
The twenty-fourth General Assembly meeting of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its persistent refusal to withdraw f
Following a twelve-hour ultimatum to Egypt and Israel, British and French forces bombard military airfields near Cairo in the S
The UN General Assembly decides that the Indian complaint against South Africa should be considered jointly by the First and Si
Harry Abt, rabbi and Jewish cultural innovator who wrote numerous articles on Jewish historical and educational subjects, is bo
The Transvaal (ZAR) Volksraad proclaims Marico, Western Transvaal, as a separate district.
EventSoweto’s chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga is arrested and charged with negligent and drunken driving
Soweto’s assistant chief of police, Nkanyiso Maphanga, was arrested and charged with two counts of reckless and/or negligent driving and one of drunken driving…
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
Nelson Mandela was identified as the "mouthpiece and mastermind" behind a call for a national strike and the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the…
EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
The African National Congress (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo met Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)’s Central…
EventThe QwaQwa homeland receives self-government status
Qwaqwa was one of the ten homelands in South Africa introduced by the apartheid government. It was home to the Batlokoa and Bakwena Southern Sotho sub-tribes…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
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…