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The Government Gazette announces an extension to the provisions of the 1964 Tear Gas Act to widen the range of those empowered
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The United States expresses deep concern to the South African Ambassador, Donald Sole, over government and police response to s
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The SA rugby team beats Australia 19-11 in Sydney.
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SA signs a multilateral treaty on the partial revision of the 1959 radio regulations.
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The Minister of Health, Dr. A. Hertzog, says there can be no exception to the government’s policy of differential salaries for
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SA extends treaty with the United States on the civil uses of atomic energy of 8 July 1957.
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Palaeontologist Mary Leakey discovers one of the oldest hominid skulls in the Olduvai Gorge, northern Tanzania. At first she fo
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Matsilela Ephraim (Jomo) Sono, SA soccer player and director, is born in Orlando East, Soweto. After his father died, he lived
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Black (Bantu) Authorities Act No 68, providing for the establishment of tribal, regional and territorial authorities in the res
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The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its own national news service
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Suppression of Communism Act (Internal Security Act) No. 44 of 1950, approved in parliament on 26 June 1950, comes into force.
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Government of India, in a gazette extraordinary, announces termination of trade relations with South Africa.
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Sir Patrick Duncan (72), first governor-general of the Union of SA, dies in Pretoria.
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SA wins the rugby series 2-0 in Australia by winning the second test 26-17 in Sydney.
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WWI: King George V orders the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. Saxe-Coburg becomes Windsor and
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Habib Mohamed (A.M.) Rajab, trader and collector of oriental art, and remembered for his role in preventing the Grey Street com
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King Leopold retains control of his Congo Free State despite attempts by the Belgian government to annex the region. Internatio
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Lieutenant C.D. Kimber, son of the Lord Mayor of London, is killed while attempting to rescue a wounded soldie
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Lieutenant-Colonel M.O. Little, commanding the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of 738 mounted men, is ordered in the direc
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Italian forces take Kassala, Sudan, from the Dervishes.
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Sir Abe Bailey, Rand magnate and politician, marries Caroline Mary Paddon, of Kimberley, CP.
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Cecil John Rhodes becomes prime minister of the Cape Colony.
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Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott in which he cedes sover
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The Doncaster is wrecked west of Cape Agulhas. All on board are lost.
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Sir Richard Bourke, acting governor of the Cape, issues Ordinance 50, abolishing the Hottentot (Khoi-Khoi) legislation. Accordi
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Maluleke George, the deputy defence minister, attends the 90th commemoration of the Battle of Delville Wood in France. During t
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The first of South Africa’s fleet of Gripen aircraft ordered to re-equip the SA National Defence Force is transported by road t
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A diesel train carrying 1 140-ton diesel derails and explodes in Swartruggens, North West Province.
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IFP political director, Ziba Jiyane, is appointed secretary-general of the party at its annual general conference in Ulundi.
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