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Sir Charles Patrick John Coghlan, first premier of Southern Rhodesia, is born in King William’s Town.
World War II: North Africa. Tobruk (Torbruk) is bombed by the German and Italian air forces.
Sir Theophilus Shepstone, administrator with knowledge of the Zulu language and tribal customs, dies in Pietermaritzburg.
Sir George Herbert Farrar, founder and developer of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Ltd is born
SA signs a treaty with Italy on the amendment of the air agreement of 21 May 1956.
Sir Arnold Theiler, father of the research institute at Onderstepoort, Pretoria, is born in Frick, Switzerland.
Sir Henry B. Loch opens the railway line between the Cape Colony and the Orange Free State.
Sir Henry B. Loch opens the railway line between the Cape Colony and the Orange Free State.
Die RSA se belange en die RSA-regering se doel, doelstellings en beleid vir orderlike regering
Document, in Afrikaans, about South Africa's national interests and the governments' goals for orderly administration, approved by the Cabinet
Sir Julius Jeppe (70), founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London.
Sir John Charles Molteno (72), first prime minister of the Cape Colony, dies in Cape Town.
Jacobus Pieter Verster, chief of the South African Air Force (1967-1975), is born in Boksburg.
The commission of enquiry into the Helderberg air disaster under judge Cecil Margo, reports its findings.
SA signs an air transport agreement with Lesotho for services between and beyond their respective territories.
Sir Bernard Oppenheimer, brother of Ernest (of the South African Diamond Corporation), is born in Germany.
Nationalist guerrillas in Rhodesia shoot down an Air Rhodesia airliner with a missile, killing fifty-nine people.
Sir Leander Starr Jameson, leader of the Jameson raid into Transvaal, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Sir Henry Bale, chief justice of Natal and later minister of education, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
Sir Herbert Baker (83), architect of the Union Buildings and Groote Schuur Hospital, dies in London.
Sir Henry Bulwer, governor of Natal, turns the first sod of the Durban-Pietermaritzburg railway line.
BiographyMichael Davis
Michael Davis was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). On completing his schooling in Johannesburg, Davis served his compulsory one-year…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…
BiographyKausobson Kausob
A number of Korana under the leadership of Captain Jan Bloem Jr investigated this complaint in the presence and possibly also under the influence of Fourie and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The population…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the 1930s and 1940s. Municipal workers…
EventRoger Joyce Bushell, Auxiliary Air Force pilot famous for his escape from the German prisoner of war camp, is born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng)
Roger Joyce Bushell was born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to British parents. He lived in South Africa until he was 14, when his father sent him to…
Sizakele Sigxashe
Sizakele Sigxashe was born on 21 June 1937. Sigxashe joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved in its anti apartheid activities…