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The Life and Death of Dr Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat, 23 February 1943 to 27 January 1989 by Jon Soske
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News 24 reports that the all-girls choir of Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool in Pretoria won first place and gold in the folklore w
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Trade union Solidarity reveals that about 30% of people killed in farm attacks are workers and between 14 000 and 30 000 have l
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Springbok rugby coach Jake White selects a record six players of colour in his starting line-up ¬ and nine in his squad of twe
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This Day reports Premier S’bu Ndebele of KwaZulu-Natal has set up an urgent investigation into bombs discovered in the legislat
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This Day reports the controversial Communal Land Rights Act, transferring about 13 million hectares of state-owned land to indi
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Agri South Africa, SA agricultural union, celebrates its 100th birthday.
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The Minister for Safety and Security imposes a moratorium on the release of crime statistics because of dissatisfaction with th
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Adriaan Vlok, former minister of Law and Order and Gen. Johan van der Merwe, former police commissioner, tells the TRC former P
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Nigeria’s new military leader, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar, announces plans for elections and a civilian president by May.
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The SA rugby team loses 11-15 against New Zealand in Christchurch.
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Hutu rebels attack Tutsi refugees at a camp in Burundi, killing some 320 people, mostly women and children.
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President Nelson Mandela pays his first state visit to a foreign country (Mozambique) as President of South Africa.
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SA signs agreement concerning the establishment of a Joint Permanent Commission for Co-operation with the government of Mozambi
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A South African team of ninety-five leaves for the Barcelona Olympics, the first in which the country has been allowed to parti
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Pepsi Mahlangu, returned exile, is shot and killed by an unknown gunman in KwaThema, PWV.
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South Africa, Angola and Cuba formally accept the principles of an Angola/Namibia peace plan. The three countries, in separate
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SA signs an agreement with the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros relating to the basic conditions governing the secondmen
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Some 6500 workers strike at Iscor’s Vanderbijlpark plant over management’s offer of a 34c-an-hour increase. The union is demand
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In reaction to further deaths of people in police detention, ten policemen have been suspended from duty and six have been char
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Mary Agard (Mamie) Pocock, algologist and botanist, who was commemorated in many plant names, dies in Grahamstown.
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In more than seventy townships, a further series of disturbances (20 July – 19 August) occur, leading to considerable destruc
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The Minister of Coloured Affairs announces that the government has decided to appoint a judicial commission to investigate stud
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The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, makes a statement in the House of Commons on the question of arms for Sou
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The minister of mines announces that SA scientists under Drs A.J.A. Roux and W.L. Grant have developed a new method to enrich u
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SA signs a parcel post agreement with the Netherlands.
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Margaret van der Post, SA soprano, is born.
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The League of Nations agrees to award former German colonies as mandates: Tanganyika (which formed the greater part of the Germ
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WWI: Only three SA officers and 140 men march out of Delville Wood. Six days earlier, on moving in, the strength of the brigade
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