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Thulane Sugarboy Malinga, SA super middleweight, wins the World Boxing Federation (WBF) title.
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The first multiparty parliament elections are held in Algeria, but the Islamic party that was set to win the cancelled 1992 ele
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Protocol on consultations between the Department of Foreign Affairs of South Africa and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulg
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Letter of intent concerning arts, culture, science and technology and sport between South Africa and Bulgaria.
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The ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front and its allies score an overwhelming victory in elections for a ne
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Forces of Somali warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid ambush UN soldiers in Mogadishu, killing twenty-two Pakistani soldiers.
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Algeria’s president declares a state of emergency in the capital following a crackdown on protests by Muslim fundamentalists. T
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OAU summit decision to continue sanctions against SA, and to review them.
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The South African Parliament adopts the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Bill.
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The Chairman of the Venda Council for National Unity, Colonel Gabriel Ramushwana, announces the lifting of the state of emergen
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Cassim Mahomed Lakhi, lecturer, and later head of the Department of History of Art in the University College for Indians (now U
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The largest three-day stay-away (5-7 June) in SA’s labour history up to this time starts, because of Black opposition to the La
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Nkosinathi S. Shabangu, SOSCO and Senoane Secondary School pupil, is shot dead in Soweto.
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Electoral Amendment Act No 7 commences.
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SA signs treaty with Botswana, Mozambique and Zimbabwe relative to the establishment of the Limpopo Basin Permanent Technical C
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The Commissioner of Police reports a wave of bomb attacks on major government installations.
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha persuades a combined gathering of the Provincial and Parliamentary caucuses of the National Party to
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Constance Annie Nothard, nursing sister and recipient of the Florence Nightingale Medal, highest award of the International Red
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The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five gay men in California are suffering from a rare pneumonia found
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The Cape Supreme Court, sitting in Port Elizabeth, sets aside the 1973 election of Lennox Sebe and three other members of the C
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The Suez Canal is re-opened after eight years.
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A Bill is tabled in Parliament banning henceforth any merger between newspapers published in South Africa, unless authorised by
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SA signs a multilateral treaty on wheat trade.
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The Six Day War between Israel and its neighbouring countries Egypt, Jordan and Syria breaks out with Israel launching air stri
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The Constitution Amendment Bill of South Africa provides for an increase in the number of members of Parliament from 160 to 170
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A resolution to expel South Africa from the Universal Postal Union is approved by the Union’s congress in Vienna, by fifty-eigh
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Dr. Verwoerd says that the government has no intention of trying to incorporate Bechuanaland, Basutoland or Swaziland into Sout
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SA signs treaty with Great Britain on the release from the bound margin of preference of ten percent ad valorem on certain pres
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The monument at Delville Wood, unveiled on 10 October 1926 to honour the thousands of SA soldiers who were killed there during
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