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Moses Kotane is awarded the Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe.
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The French Minister of State for National Defence confirms the continued supply of French arms to South Africa, except for anti
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Prime Minister Vorster reorganises his cabinet in order to strengthen the ‘verligte’ enlightened elements in the government.
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Biafran troops, under the command of Colonel Ojukwu, have crossed the Niger River into Nigeria’s Mid-Western State and are head
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The SA cricket team beats England in the second test in Nottingham, thereby scoring the first victory over the English in ten y
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Robert Matana Gumede, founder/chair/chief executive of Gijima Afrika Investment Group of Companies and former owner and managin
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In one of the largest demonstrations staged in this country’s history, women marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to pres
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The United States drops the second atom bomb to force Japan to surrender, this time on Nagasaki.
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James Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry who strove to improve the image and administration
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Ahomed Ebrahim Lambat, attorney, politician, community worker and sworn translator to the Supreme Court in Urdu and Gujarati, i
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Sheila Cussons, SA poet now living in Israel, is born at Moravia, near Piketberg, CP.
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Hassan Howa, cricket promoter and campaigner for sports equality, is born in Cape Town.
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Moses Mauane (Malume) Kotane, political functionary of the SACP and compositor of the communist newspaper Umsebenzi, is born
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British officers Ian Hamilton and Baden-Powell evacuate Rustenburg and Olifant’s Nek and occupy Commando Drif
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Robert Moffat (87), Scottish missionary near Kuruman and father-in-law of David Livingstone, dies in Tunbridge, Wales.
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Anna Susanna (Antjie) Scheepers, Voortrekker pioneer woman who, together with Martha Tregardt (Trichardt) and Breggie Pretorius
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Anders Sparrman, Swedish physician, naturalist and Cape explorer, dies in Stockholm.
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Makana (Makanda, Nxele), a Xhosa chief/witchdoctor imprisoned on Robben Island by Lord Charles Somerset, overpowers a guard but
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Lord Liverpool, British Colonial Secretary, sends instructions to Cape governor Sir John Cradock, to investigate allegations ma
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The sixty castaways of the Nieuw-Haerlem, who stayed for a year at the Cape after their ship had been wrecked, arrive in Amster
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National Women’s Day. Since 1995 celebrated in South Africa.
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The Tanzanian musician Patrick Malisidya, co-founder of the Afro 70 band, dies.
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Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu in SA.
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President Thabo Mbeki’s parliamentary councillor, Manne Dipico, resigns from the National Assembly in order to concentrate his
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Four men die instantly when a car swerves to avoid a second which was spinning on the Odi race track and ploughed into spectato
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The South African National Government Cabinet announces the go-ahead for an antiretroviral roll-out plan.
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Peter Oxley (58), TV journalist, dies in Cape Town.
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First day of office for Tito Mboweni as President of the SA Reserve Bank, succeeding Dr Chris Stals. He was inaugurated on the
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Simon Ramoni, SA super bantamweight, wins the International Boxing Organisation (IBO) title.
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