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Jabu Jeremiah (Shuffle) Pule, SA footballer who was winner of the Kick Off Magazine Soccer Player of the Season, ½ award, is b
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One hundred and twelve Peace Corps workers are detained and then expelled from Uganda by President Idi Amin Dada.
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The University Christian Movement (UCM) (SA), propagating Black Power with the aid of Black Theology, and precursor of the Sout
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SA ratifies a treaty with Switzerland on the avoidance of double taxation with respect to taxes on income.
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Security police raid the ANC ‘safe-house’ at Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, then just outside Johannesburg, arresting the leaders
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Only eleven days after achieving independence as the Republic of Congo, its richest province, Katanga, declares itself independ
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Fatima Jakoet, regional financial manager of Eskom and director of several companies, is born.
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While on his way to address a protest meeting in Johannesburg, Albert Luthuli is served with a banning order as he steps off a
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Walter Sisulu attends a massive meeting of the ANC in Sophiatown, Johannesburg.
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Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act No 67 commences, repealing the laws relating to the carrying of
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The All African Convention (AAC) of Western Province takes place.
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Prof. Hudson William Edison Ntsangwisi, former chief minister of Gazankulu, is born at the Shiluwane mission station, Eastern T
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The congress of the Helpmekaar-vereniging, founded to help pay the debt of the 1914-rebels, is held in Middelburg, Cape Provinc
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Bambata Rebellion: Messeni (also spelt Mseni) and Ndlovu ka Timuni are captured while on their way to surrender, and the Rebell
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The complete Free State Executive Council, except the president who escaped with the help of Ruiter, 29 perso
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Anglo-Boer War 2. With dawn approaching, General Broadwood surprises the Free State force, accompanied by Pres. Steyn, in Reitz
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek, west of Pretoria, starts with Gen. De la Rey launching a three-pronged attack on t
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The British fleet bombards Alexandria, Egypt.
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The William Bailey runs ashore at Plettenberg Bay.
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Nicholas Edward Brown, SA botanist, is born in Surrey, England.
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Samuel Silverthorne Bailey, surgeon and hospital pioneer in SA, marries Hester Aletta van Reenen, daughter of J.G. (Jan) van Re
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World Population Day.
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The New Zealand rugby team beats SA 28-0 in a tri-nation match in Dunedin.
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The documentation of the Lusaka Cease-fire Agreement, attempting to bring peace to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the
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The application of three anti-abortion groups in SA to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminat
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Kenyan runner Yobes Ondieki becomes the first man to run 10,000 metres in less than 27 minutes.
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An international panel led by Philip Heymann, Director of the Harvard Law School Centre for Criminal Justice, proposes changes
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The International Cricket Council agrees to grant full membership to the United Cricket Board of South Africa, which will allow
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President Bush lifts certain US trade sanctions against South Africa, making it possible for the two nations to engage in trade
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