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The United Nations Security Council, taking into account the recommendations and conclusions of its Group of Experts, condemns
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André Huguenet, stage-name of Gerhardus Petrus Borstlap, SA actor, producer and author, dies in Bloemfontein in poverty.
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Second Conference of Independent African States at Addis Ababa (15-21 June) calls for sanctions against South Africa.
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Jabulani Moleketi, Deputy Minister of Finance of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004, is born.
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Mary Eveline Fincken, singer, teacher of singing, educationist and choirmaster, dies in Cape Town.
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Thozamile Botha, Chief Executive Officer of the telecommunications company Ikwezi Group and chief negotiator for the ANC on Loc
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The Working Committee of the Indian National Congress adopts a resolution expressing full sympathy for the Resisters in their b
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The first legislative assembly of South-West Africa is held in Windhoek.
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After the 1914 Rebellion, General Christiaan de Wet is found guilty of high treason in the High Court, Bloemfontein, and senten
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Anglo-Boer War 2: the British at Cradock execute J.P. Coetzee, a Cape rebel, by hanging.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Sergeant J. Rogers of the SA Constabulary earns a Victoria Cross near Thaba Nchu.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Department of Native Refugees is established in the ‘Transvaal Colony’.
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Prof. Willem Blommaert, chairman of the senate of the University of Stellenbosch, historian and educationist, is born in Belgiu
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School regulations in the Cape Colony altered to leave the decision on the language of instruction to schools. This meant tha
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The Boadicea, which left Durban on June 11 carrying the remains of the Prince Imperial of France, killed in the Anglo-Zulu War,
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The Volksraad of the South African Republic (ZAR) passes a resolution protesting against the Executive Council contravening its
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Johannes de Wet (80), champion for freedom of the press against Lord Charles Somerset and member of the Cape legislative assemb
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Florence Nightingale, doyen of the modern nursing profession, also in SA, opens the first school for nurses at the St. Thomas h
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The Rev. A.J. Begemann, first pastor in Pretoria, is born in the Netherlands.
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Madalitso Muthiya is the first Zambian to play in the prestigious US Open Golf tournament.
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Pretoria regional court magistrate Len Kotze finds the Waterkloof Four guilty of murder and announces another guilty verdict on
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President Thabo Mbeki sacks Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Mbeki makes the announcement during a special joint sitting of the two
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South African parliament elects Thabo Mbeki to succeed President Nelson Mandela.
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Finance Minister Trevor Manuel unveils the government’s macro-economic strategy in a framework document entitled Growth, Employ
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SA signs a declaration of intent on cooperation with the Russian Federation in the field of arts and culture.
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Special Committee against Apartheid adopts its final report to the General Assembly and the Security Council.
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At a meeting between President Nelson Mandela and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Yasser Arafat, the two lead
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Children playing on a local beach find the bodies of Ewert Mzimela and Stanley Mabaso, ANC activists.
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Three people die and sixty-nine are injured in a bomb explosion in Magoo’s Bar on the Durban beach. ANC member Robert McBri
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