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About sixty people have been injured in an accident involving a bus and a truck on the N1 south, near Murrayhill, north of Pret
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Zimbabwean authorities are considering moving elephants from the country’s overburdened national parks to Namibia after at leas
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EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe
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The Blue Bulls of Northern Transvaal beat the Western Province 24-20 on Loftus and win the Currie Cup.
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Tutu threatens to quit TRC.
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The National Assembly passes legislation providing for abortion on demand within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy and for te
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Nigerian political activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa is one of eight people sentenced to death for the death of four Ogoni leaders (who d
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Professor Sibusiso Bhengu, Education Minister, says that Government will cut funding for White schools as part of a plan to ach
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More than 300 people are killed in renewed fighting as Angola slides back into civil war.
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Five American nuns in Liberia are shot to death near the capital Monrovia; the killings are blamed on rebels loyal to Charles T
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Zambia holds its first multiparty elections, with Frederick Chiluba winning over independence leader and first president, Kenne
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SA signs an aviation security agreement with the government of the USA.
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Rosalie van der Gught, theatre director, actor and head of the Speech and Drama Department at the University of Cape Town (UCT)
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Internal Security Amendment Act No 22, prohibiting any meeting of more than twenty persons to be held without the permission of
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Draft laws are gazetted providing some benefits for Black people. These include greatly increased mobility and security of tenu
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On this day there are 178 restricted people in SA.
EventA full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit is launched
A full scale police search, headed by a specially trained anti-terrorist unit was launched following a shoot-out between police and suspected nationalist…
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Rhodesian commandos launch a raid across the border into Mozambique.
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Cobus Visagie, SA rugby Springbok, is born in Stellenbosch.
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The twenty-fourth General Assembly meeting of the United Nations condemns South Africa for its persistent refusal to withdraw f
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Following a twelve-hour ultimatum to Egypt and Israel, British and French forces bombard military airfields near Cairo in the S
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The UN General Assembly decides that the Indian complaint against South Africa should be considered jointly by the First and Si
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Harry Abt, rabbi and Jewish cultural innovator who wrote numerous articles on Jewish historical and educational subjects, is bo
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The Transvaal (ZAR) Volksraad proclaims Marico, Western Transvaal, as a separate district.
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An elderly pensioner dies in a hail of bullets and two other pensioners are seriously injured during an attack at a pay point i
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Jeff Radebe, the transport minister, launches the national SA Police Services Railway Unit in Cape Town. According to the SA Ra
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Bombings in Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit. Boeremag claims responsibility.
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The Australian rugby team beats SA 27-21 in the World Cup semi-final in Twickenham.
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The marriage of nearly forty years between former President F.W. de Klerk and Marike is dissolved in the Cape Supreme Court.
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