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The Natal Witness reports that 12 000 candidates who had passed the matriculation examination at the end of 1987, had been unab
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Justice Minister Kobie Coetsee grants the “Sharpeville Six” an indefinite stay of execution. He says the move is to afford them
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The Johannesburg chief magistrate refuses permission for a concert to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 70th birthday. Twenty-five tho
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Mbanga James George Benjamin Molefe, educationist and clergyman was accorded many honours that were firsts for Black South Afri
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Mbanga James George Benjamin Molefe, educationist and clergyman was accorded many honours that were firsts for Black South Afri
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Demonstrations take place in Liberian capital, Monrovia, against increase in rice prices, led by opposition Progressive Allianc
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Demonstrations take place in Liberian capital, Monrovia, against increase in rice prices, led by opposition Progressive Allianc
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Andre George Ezra Coetzee, SA soccer player who made history in 2000 when he took Ajax Cape Town, the PSL and Safe to court to
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The New Zealand government announces steps to discourage sporting contacts with South Africa.
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The New Zealand government announces steps to discourage sporting contacts with South Africa.
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Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa (Nat), journalist and writer who left SA by means of an exit permit and could never return, jumps from
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Patrice Lumumba of the Congo breaks off diplomatic relations with Belgium and calls on the United Nations and Soviet Union for
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Patrice Lumumba of the Congo breaks off diplomatic relations with Belgium and calls on the United Nations and Soviet Union for
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Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) announces it’s functioning as the SACP, operating underground, after its dissolution in
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The SA rugby team loses the first test against New Zealand 6-10 in Dunedin.
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King Goodwill Zwelithini, Zulu monarch, is born.
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James Leonard (Peter) Klatzow, SA composer and pianist, is born in Springs, Transvaal.
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Pieter George du Plessis, Afrikaans dramatist and TV personality, is born in the district of Boshof, OFS.
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William (Gobo) Ashley, SA cricket player in a test against England (1888-89), dies in Plumtree, Rhodesia.
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President Paul Kruger (78), president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal) dies.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: British Gen. French drives Scheepers out of the Camdeboo Mountains and Major Moore, with a detachment of Conn
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The Free State government is to dispense with the idea of a capital, and they become a government ‘in the fie
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Pres. Steyn of the OFS takes leave of his wife and four children at Fouriesburg, to be reunited only after th
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Adv. Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom, 5th premier of SA, is born on the farm Klipfontein, district Willowmore, CP.
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Dr Stephanus Petrus Erasmus Boshoff, Afrikaner cultural leader, linguist and director of education, is born on Vaalbank, distri
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Johannes Henricus Brand (64), the fourth president of the Orange Free State, dies in Bloemfontein.
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Britain and Germany agree on frontiers of Gold Coast and Togoland in Africa.
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Reichskommissar (Imperial Commissioner) Gustav Nachtigal Nachtigal hoists the German flag over Cameroon.
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Sir Thomas Maclear, 3rd H.M.’s Astronomer at the Cape and close friend of David Livingstone, dies in Cape Town. The town Maclea
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