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Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act No 55, prohibiting marriages between Whites and members of other racial groups, commences.
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Passive Resister reports that hundreds of (Passive) Resisters have appeared before court some on as many as five different char
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Gerda Hartman, SA soprano, is born.
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Alan Solomon, SA violist and music professor, is born.
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 17-3 in Newlands, Cape Town.
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Aubrey Rainier, SA cellist and orchestra leader, is born.
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Britain annexes East African Protectorate as Kenya Colony.
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The largest organised trek to East Africa, under Jan van Rensburg, consisting of seventy families with forty-seven wagons and s
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Gen. Louis Botha, member of the church council of the Nederduitsche Hervormde Kerk, lays the corner stone of the Hervormde chur
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William Philip Schreiner, prime minister in the Cape Colony at the start of Anglo-Boer War 2, summarises the pressure his gover
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Opening of Delagoa Bay Railway. According to SESA, the regular railway service between Pretoria and Lourenço Marques stared
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Ruth (Ethel) Prowse, SA artist in whose house the Ruth Prowse Art Centre was opened, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape.
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Jan Gerritze Bantjes, teacher and secretary to the provisional Voortrekker administration and to Comdt.-Gen. Andries Pretorius,
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Petrus Borchardus Borcherds, adjunct fiscal and member of the Council of Justice at the Cape, is born in Cape Town.
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The expedition of August Friedrich Beutler reaches Tembuland, which he enters on his map as “Tamboegies Land”. From there they
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Baron Pieter van Rheede, appointed governor of the Cape who died at sea on his way to the Cape, is born in Utrecht, the Netherl
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Herry, also known as Autshumao, Khoi-Khoi interpreter and chief of the Goringhaikonas, is banished to Robben Island
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Navigator Vasco da Gama departs from Portugal at the head of a fleet in search of a sea route to India. His fleet sailed along
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SABC Sport reporter Maseru Koaho, known for his expertise in football and boxing reporting, is killed in a car crash on the N12
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This Day reports that the SA movie, Senter, produced by students from the South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Liv
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US President George W Bush’s administration acknowledges for the first time that Bush relied on faulty intelligence when he cla
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Nigeria’s most prominent political prisoner, Moshood Abiola, dies of an apparent heart attack a few days before he was expected
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Brig. Theuns Swanepoel (”Rooi Rus”) (70), one of the most feared interrogators of the SA Security Police, dies in Roodepoort.
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In a television broadcast President Mandela confirms that he will not stand for re-election in 1999.
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Eleven residents are killed in Katlehong in ongoing township violence in Katlehong and Tokoza.
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In SA’s first ever Fifa sanctioned match the Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, beats Cameroon 1-0 in an international friendly gam
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An illegal demonstration in Kenya becomes known as the “Saba Saba” (Seven Seven the date in Swahili). The government sends in p
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Tens of thousands of people march without incident in cities and towns across South Africa at the end of a week of action again
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Five prominent anti-apartheid activists from Cape Town are released after being detained for up to two years under the emergenc
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