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Sir William Westbrooke Burton, judge of the Cape Supreme Court, dies.
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Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk, elected as ‘Chairman’ of the territory south and north of the Harts River, issues a proclamation
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Anna Louisa (Annie) Visser, SA singer who was one of the first singers to record Afrikaans songs, is born on the farm Lokshoek,
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Frederick William Fitzsimons, director of the Port Elizabeth museum for more than thirty years and pioneer of school museums in
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Sir Lionel Phillips, President of the Chamber of Mines and developer of deep level mining, is born in London.
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François le Vaillant, French naturalist and traveller in SA, is born in Paramaribo, Surinam.
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Nigerian police arrest some thirty people in Anambra state after fifty corpses and twenty skulls are discovered in raids on fet
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Locust swarms ravaging crops in parts of North Africa invade the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott stripping trees bare.
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21-year-old Luyanda Mboniswa, a security guard employed at the Dolphin Beach complex in Table View, is charged with the robbing
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The SA race horse, Horse Chestnut, is flown to New York by special cargo aeroplane to run in the Dubai World Cup with R30 mil
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US President Bill Clinton signs a bill to punish foreign businesses that invest in Iran and Libya.
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Ten residents are killed in Qumbu in revenge for a previous attack on the village of Ntshongweni.
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A coelacanth, thought extinct before rediscovered in 1938, is caught off the south-west coast of Madagascar.
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Nelson Mandela leads 100 000 Blacks in Pretoria in a protest to end White rule.
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The United States sends a Marine company into Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, to evacuate US citizens because of a rebel threat to
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Thirty ANC supporters are killed (5-23 August) in attacks aimed at the takeover of Kagiso hostel.
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Police fire teargas at a 300-strong crowd which had gathered outside the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town to convey their wi
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Daniel Tshabalala disappears in Soweto after allegedly taken from his house by four men, two Black men in police uniforms and t
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Dr Zach de Beer succeeds Colin Eglin as leader of the PFP.
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Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk warns universities that their subsidies will be cut if they fail to "maintain
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Riots start in Durban townships and continue up to 14 August. Seventy people, police, amabutho and activists, are killed in the
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
The twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) leader and first commander-in-chief of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was…
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Trial begins in Pretoria of nine men accused of having planned the siege of a suburban bank in Pretoria in January, in which fi
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Ten family members of the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie escape from house arrest in Addis Ababa and reach Sweden. There
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The state-owned Atlas Aircraft Corporation is to build an advanced subsonic fighter to be airborne in 1974.
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The Minister of Defence says that South Africa has become self-sufficient in the manufacture of arms. The country is considerin
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South Africa’s first atomic reactor, Safari I, is opened by the Prime Minister at Pelindaba near Pretoria. Nuclear power will b
EventAnnesu de Vos, SA poet, is born.
Annesu de Vos was born in Johannesburg on the 5 August 1964. She is well-known as the youngest published poet in South African literature history. When she was…
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The Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, to which SA is a party, is signed i
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