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Hungary and SA agree to upgrade their relations to ambassadorial level.
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The Special Committee against Apartheid issues a statement concerning the Report of the Secretary-General on the Progress made
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Strike of 10,000 Johannesburg municipal workers.
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Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat orders his troops to observe immediate cease-fire in fighting with Libya.
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Dissatisfaction with the Coloured Persons Representative Council (CPRC) climaxes with a motion of no confidence in separate dev
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Four men from the Japanese Red Army, a militant group dedicated to a worldwide communist revolution, hijack a Japan Airlines pl
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Rand Daily Mail explains that Black and White South Africans might compete against each other in an “open international” meetin
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Fietas, Johannesburg: Mr. Mahomed Suliman Bhana is released and given a remission of ten days for good behaviour.
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A powerful bomb, planted by Frederick John Harris, explodes in the Johannesburg station. One woman is killed and twenty-two (so
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Walter Sisulu is taken into custody in the Bochabella location, Bloemfontein, on a charge under the Suppression of Communism Ac
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The Nelspoort Sanatorium, started by Dr Peter Allan and first tuberculosis hospital in SA, is opened by the Prince of Wales.
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League of Nations Council approves mandates for Palestine and Egypt.
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Georg Siegfried Johannes Kuschke, industrialist and managing director of the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) is born i
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A combined force of the Seventh Hussars, local troops and the newly recruited British South Africa Police attacks Mashona chief
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Piet Grobler, consul of the ZAR in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, dies at the Pontdrif border post.
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South African politician and author of “Jock of the Bushveld,” Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, is born in King William’s Town.
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Prince Alfred Ernest Albert (16), second son of Queen Victoria, after whom several places and towns in SA are named, e.g. Port
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Sir Christoffel (Joseph) Brand succeeds his brother, P.A. Brand, as editor of De Zuid-Afrikaan.
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France’s Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Turks at Aboukir in Egypt.
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The SA Springbok rugby team beats the Wallabies 33-20 in the Mandela Cup match at Ellis Park, Johannesburg.
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At least eight-eight people are killed, including nine foreign tourists, in a string of bomb attacks that rocked the Egyptian R
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Death of Wilton Mkwayi, MK activist and freedom fighter.
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Former president Nelson Mandela receives the City of Johannesburg’s highest honour, the Freedom of the City, from Johannesburg
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South African swimmer Penny Heyns wins gold again in the women’s 200m breaststroke final, after setting an Olympic record in he
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Gambian soldiers proclaim military government in Dakar, Senegal.
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The SA rugby team loses the second test 9-13 against New Zealand in Wellington.
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Dr. Peter Waddington of Reading University, who had been invited by the Goldstone Commission to make an independent inquiry int
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Agreement is reached between the South African Police, ANC, SACP and COSATU on the principles outlined by a panel of experts on
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Mozambican rebels rampage through villages, killing about 1 000 people and beheading them, according to media reports.
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