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The Alliance of Black Reformed Christians in South Africa (ABRECSA) starts its inaugural conference at St Peter’s Seminary, Ham
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Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt are named winners of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize. The prize will be awarded on
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Ugandan troops invade Tanzania, occupying the Kagera salient.
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President Carter announces that the United States government will support the decision against the sale of arms to South Africa
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Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, on his first trip to the US, arrives in Washington for talks with President Ford.
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SA signs an amendment to a customs union agreement of 11 September 1969 with Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland.
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UN peacekeeping forces arrive in Cairo to attempt to set up a lasting cease-fire between Israeli and Arab forces.
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Israel Abrahams, Chief Rabbi of Cape Town and Hebrew scholar, dies in Jerusalem, Israel. He came to SA in 1937 and held the pos
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The Carletonville inquests exonerates the police from any blame for the shootings at the Western Deep Levels on 11 September 19
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The government of Congo announces that the country will change its name to the Republic of Zaire.
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The Minister of Police, S.L. Muller, speaking at a National Party meeting, warns that several hundred South African born Black
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The United Nations (UN) General Assembly votes to end South Africa’s mandate over South West Africa.
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The Prime Minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd, opens a new international radio service, ‘The Voice of South Africa’, intended to counter
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British Prime Minister warns Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, that their government would be committing treason if they go
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Forty-five African leaders (and one Indian) from South Africa meet in Lobatsi, Bechuanaland (27-28 October), to make plans to s
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Offices of Moslem Brotherhood are burnt down by a mob in Cairo, following an assassination attempt on Egyptian leader Colonel G
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The Afrikaans service of the SAUK (SABC) radio station is instituted.
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The first court verdict in Afrikaans is delivered in the Bloemfontein Appeal Court by Judge F.W. Beyers.
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The corner stone of the Technical College in Pretoria, at the corner of Church and Du Toit streets, is laid.
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The late Emily Hobhouse is honoured in Bloemfontein during a memorial service and her ashes, received from London, are placed a
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Southern Rhodesia referendum rejects joining the Union of South Africa.
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Oliver Reginald Tambo, president of South Africa’s African National Congress, is born in a rural Mbizana, in eastern Mpondoland
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Hermien Dommisse, SA actress, is born.
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Prof. Hendrik Johannes Jan Matthys Van der Merwe, academic and linguist, is born in Morgenzon, Tvl.
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Richard Maxwell (Dick) Haldane, trade union leader who was honoured with the Award of Merit from TUCSA in 1964, is born in Grea
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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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Anglo-Boer War 2: English social worker and reformer Emily Hobhouse is placed under arrest aboard the Avondale Castle, in terms
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Governor Henry Barkly of the Cape Colony annexes the territory east and west of the Vaal river (including the Kimberley diamond
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Andrew Barnard (45), colonial secretary of the Cape and husband of Lady Ann Barnard, dies on a farm near Cape Town after contra
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