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The SA defence force attacks alleged ANC homes and offices in Gaborone, Botswana, in Operation Plecksy. Twelve or thirteen peop
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The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces in the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly in Ulundi, that t
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Albertina Sisulu, wife of ANC leader, Walter Sisulu is placed under a banning order for the fifth time since 1963.
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The Springbok team under Morné du Plessis beats the British Lions 26-19 in Bloemfontein, to lead 2-0 in the series.
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In the face of widespread protest the Prime Minister announces that provisions in the Advocate General Bill preventing the pres
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Botswana authorities announce the arrests in Gaborone of nine Black dissidents in connection with the assassination of Mr. Sibe
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An amendment to the Inquest Act prevents any reporting on a suspicious death before an inquest.
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The ‘Afrikaanse Taalmonument’ (Monument of the Afrikaans language) near Paarl, is handed to the state.
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Security Intelligence and State Security Council Act No 64 commences.
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The World Council of Churches cancels a special consultation in South Africa because of unacceptable conditions imposed on it b
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Prime Minister Vorster and Dr. Hilgard Muller arrive in Geneva. A meeting is held with twelve South African ambassadors to Euro
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SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
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SA signs agreement with Great Britain in regard to guaranteed preferences on the British market.
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General J.M.B. Hertzog’s National Party wins the South African general election with an outright majority: race plays a critica
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The Immigration Act is passed. Though the Act does not specifically refer to Indians, it makes their further immigration imposs
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The headquarters of the defence force of the Union of South Africa is founded in Pretoria.
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Lord Salisbury negotiates an Anglo-French agreement on West Africa and ends the Niger crisis. It defines the border between Nig
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The reckless way in which horse carts races through the streets of Pretoria, causes concern.
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Barney Barnato (44) dies when he jumps overboard the Scot near Madeira. He was on his way from Cape Town to Southampton and
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The Rev. H.J.L. du Toit lays the corner stone of the new Dutch Reformed church in Lichtenburg.
EventWilliam Duncan Baxter, SA businessman, politician and financier is born in Dundee, Scotland.
William Duncan Baxter, South African businessperson, politician and financier was born in Dundee, Scotland on 14 June 1868. He was widely respected for his …
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Mangena Maaka Mokone, founder of the ‘Ethiopian Church’ in 1892 and political leader who strongly opposed racial segregation, i
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Frederich Struben, one of the discoverers of the Witwatersrand gold reef, is born.
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Sir Jacob Dirk Barry, judge president of the Eastern division since 1880, is born in Swellendam, Cape Colony.
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The Council of Policy resolves to settle Sheik Yusuf, brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape and came
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World Blood Donor Day.
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After months of speculation, Jamaican police finally confirms that former Pakistani cricket coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered
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President Thabo Mbeki salutes the historic deal by the world’s most industrialised nations to write off debt owed by eighteen o
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Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI (29) dies in Polokwane Medi-Clinic at 4.30am after a sudden illness.
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