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Name changes to three of South Africa’s nine provinces are announced: PWV becomes Gauteng; Orange Free State becomes the Free S
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The Council of Ministers of the OAU issues a resolution calling for an urgent meeting of the Security Council to examine the is
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Population Registration Act Repeal Act No 114 commences.
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South Africa decides to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against SA.
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Moses Mayekiso, general secretary of NUMSA, and four others, are arrested for allegedly running ‘people’s courts’ in Alexandra,
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SACTU member Jeanette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb in Lubango, Angola.
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The Springbok rugby team lead by Morné du Plessis beats the British Lions 12-10 in Port Elizabeth to lead 3-0 in the ser
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Dr. C. Mulder, together with two other former National Party members, Cas Greyling and Sarel Reinecke, and four other men, anno
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The official opposition in SA, the United Party, disbands.
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The Seychelles become independent after 102 years under British rule.
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Three British mercenaries, Andrew McKenzie, John Barker and Costas Georgiou and an American, Daniel Gearhert, are sentenced to
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The SA rugby team beats France 33-18 in Pretoria.
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Father Cosmos Desmond, British born Roman Catholic priest, is placed under house arrest.
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Philemon Masinga, SA soccer player, is born.
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SA signs an amendment to the air transport agreement of 23 May 1947 with the United States.
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Tiaan Strauss, SA and Australian rugby player, is born.
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Western countries, under which SA, decide to implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern sectio
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WWII: British 8th Army in North Africa retreats from German attack to El Alamein.
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World War II: North Africa. General Rommel and his Panzerarmee Afrika capture Fuqa.
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Helena van Heerden, SA pianist, is born.
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Sen. Johannes (Jan) de Klerk, minister of Education, Art and Science, president of the Senate and father of former Pres. F.W. d
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Colonel R.S.S. Baden-Powell, a special service officer sent by the British Colonial Office, lands at Cape Tow
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Dorothea (Anne) Fairbridge, author of books on SA history, including on Lady Anne Barnard, is born in Cape Town.
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An Egyptian and three Kenyans, along with four other truck drivers, are taken hostage by a militant Iraqi group.
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Sergio Motsoaneng, a gold medal winner in the 1999 Comrades, admits his brother ran sections of the race in his place.
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Internal Peace Institution Act Repeal Act No 28, repealing the 1992 Internal Peace Institutions Act and providing for matters c
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Ten residents are killed in an attack by hostel dwellers in Daveyton.
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Cyrus Vance, Special Representative of the Secretary-General, visits South Africa (21-31 July), for talks with a broad array of
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