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South Africa has decided to close its Consulate in Wellington instead of waiting for New Zealand’s new Government to carry out
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South Africa has held up supplies of British weapons to Lesotho and the UK has complained several times about the delays, offic
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Campaigning for the new trilateral Parliament begins.
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The Federal Congress of the National Party supports the set of constitutional reforms outlined by Prime Minister P.W. Botha, an
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Following decisions by the ‘Committee of 81’ on 16 July and 30 July 1980, Coloured students suspend their boycott of schools in
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Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, socialist and SA trade union leader, dies in London.
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The Opposition press strongly attacks the detention of four journalists under the Terrorism Act.
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The Cabinet meets to discuss the crisis in the government policy towards the Coloured community, following the capture of the C
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The former Minister of the Interior, Theo Gerdener, announces details of his scheme for a new political organisation whose aim
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Rescue workers struggle more than six hours to get 2½ year old Nicolas Kanaris out of a borehole.
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The ‘Luthuli Combat Detachment’, comprising of ZAPU and ANC guerrillas, crosses the Zambezi into Rhodesia (30 July 31 July) at
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Dr. Raymond Hoffenberg of Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town and senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town Medical School,
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Yugoslavia closes its consular office in Johannesburg.
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In the Geneva session of the United nations Economic and Social Council, an Argentinean resolution state that South Africa shal
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Under the provisions of the General Law Amendment Act of 1962 a list of 102 persons, prohibited from attending gatherings, is p
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Britain signs alliance with Libya.
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Anton (Anthony) Muziwakhe Lembede (born in January 1914), teacher, lawyer, politician and principal architect of African nation
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The Rev. Edward Jacannathan Manikkam, minister of the Reformed Church in Africa and first Indian to be ordained in the family o
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The SA Communist Party is founded at a conference of socialist parties in Cape Town (27 July 3 August).
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Ernest Methuen Mancoba, S.A sculptor, is born in Turffontein, Transvaal.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: General Marthinus Prinsloo surrenders in the Brandwater Basin, near Clarens. Some generals refuse to surrende
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The SA rugby team plays for the first time against a team of the British Isles, and lose 0-4 in Port Elizabeth.
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The diggers on the diamond fields between the Vaal and the Harts Rivers proclaim Klipdrift a republic with Stafford Parker as f
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Herman Arnold Ameshoff, judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court, is born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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John Hanning Speke, British discoverer, names the lake he discovers in Africa, Lake Victoria, in honour of Queen Victoria of th
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Dr Nicolaas Mansvelt, SA educationist, is born in Wassenaar, the Netherlands.
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President Mbeki warns against people whose only concern is to accumulate more riches in the Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture at
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Science Magazine reveals in an article that dinosaur eggs, discovered in South Africa in 1978 during road works in the Golden G
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Sierra Leonean rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who had been in United Nations custody since 2000 and was awaiting trial on charges o
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