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A strike by Black municipal workers in Johannesburg ends when police supervise the removal of over 1,000 dismissed men.
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An order has been issued withdrawing the remaining South African Police from Rhodesia.
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The government expands its defence potential by enrolling Blacks for defence services. This policy has the support of ‘homeland
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It is officially announced that the police’s counter-insurgency potential will be increased by the establishment of a long-serv
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SA signs treaty with the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the visit of the German nuclear-powered vessel Otto Hahn.
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A High Court is established in Umtata, capital of the Transkei.
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The Ciskei is given self-government. Chief Justice Mabandla becomes Chief Minister, and the heads of the territory’s six depart
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John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour
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The Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, M.C. Botha, outlines the government’s homelands policy in Pretoria. He de
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South Africa signs treaty with Malawi relating to the employment and documentation of Malawi nationals in South Africa.
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(Sidney) Robey Leibbrandt, SA Olympic boxer in 1936 who was later condemned to death (but reprieved) because of his Nazi sympat
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Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah escapes an assassination attempt when a hand grenade is thrown into a crowd greeting him. The d
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Benin (formerly Dahomey) proclaims its independence from France.
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The Nasionale Bouvereniging (National Building Society) is founded as result of a joint effort of Volkskas and Sanlam.
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Trial of ninety-one defendants on charges of high treason opens.
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Blacks Resettlement Act No 19 commences.
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Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia becomes a part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
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N.C. Havenga’s Afrikaner Party joins the National Party under Dr D.F. Malan and becomes the Herenigde National Party.
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Air Force Base Waterkloof is founded with two hangars, a runway and No’s 1 and 2 Fighter-bomber Squadrons and No 3 Communicatio
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Adolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, the last to be held for the next twelve years. SA also competed.
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation is inaugurated, set up in terms of the Broadcasting Act (Act no 22 of 1936). It broa
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The Second Polar Year Project (1 August 1932-31 August 1933) starts. The Union Weather Services of South Africa renders valuabl
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Reginald Rooseveldt MacIntyre Ndumiso Cingo, evangelist and educationist who was headmaster of the first secondary day school f
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British parliament votes an additional £12 500 00 for munitions.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Sir G. Lagden, formerly Resident Commissioner in Basutoland, is appointed by the British as the Commissioner
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Ian Hamilton, commanding a force of about 6 000 men with twenty-six field guns, is sent to capture Co
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Sekhukhune, the Bapedi king, successfully resists the Boers’ attack on his stronghold during a protracted Boer/Bapedi land owne
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Explorer W.C. Oswell’s expedition, of which David Livingstone is a member, reaches Lake Ngami.
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Martin West, first lieutenant governor of Natal after annexation by the British on 12 May 1843, dies. (Muller: 500 Years: a his
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