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A Day of Prayer, called by NIC, is observed very widely. Indian businesses are closed at 1 pm, and many Indians take a resistan
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The Totius festival reaches a climax as 2 500 people gather in the Bloemfontein City Hall.
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A serious epidemic of measles breaks out among the White community of Cape Town.
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General Louis Botha’s Het Volk Party wins the general election in the Transvaal Colony.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Col. C.W. Park, commanding three columns and accompanied by about 300 National Scouts and a commando of armed
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Emile Hullebroeck, Afrikaans song writer, is born in Flanders.
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Prof. Adriaan Francken, professor in Dutch and French at Grey University College in Bloemfontein and founding member of the Onz
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The farm Turffontein in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek is registered in the name of Abraham Smit. In the following sixteen yea
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Bishop Robert Gray arrives in South Africa and takes up his post as the first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town.
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Lord Charles Somerset (64), former governor at the Cape and direct descendent of the Plantagenet kings who ruled England from 1
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De Grundel, a ninety-ton coastal vessel of the Dutch East India Company, is wrecked near Cape Hangklip. No lives are lost. The
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Seventh-Day Adventist Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, 78, and his son Gerard Ntakirutimana, 45, a doctor, are convicted of geno
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Masibulela Makepula, SA junior flyweight, wins the World Boxing Organisation (WBO) title.
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The Job Creation Trust, aimed at raising millions for the relief of unemployment, is launched by SA’s three major trade union f
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The Presidents of South Africa, Uganda, Mozambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe meet in Cape Town. The five leaders exchange views on
EventThe World Health Organisation confirms that Ebola virus killed thirteen villagers in Gabon.
Thirteen people died of an unknown disease in a remote village in Gabon during the month of February 1996. On 19 February 1996, the World Health Organisation…
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The ANC and the South African government make further concessions in an attempt to draw the FA into an inclusive constitutional
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Gunmen kill eighteen young ANC supporters in KwaZulu-Natal, the first major act of violence in a Zulu anti-election campaign.
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The ANC foreign affairs department hosts an international solidarity conference in Johannesburg (19-21 February), to mobilise i
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South Africa signs an agreement with Hungary on co-operation in the areas of culture, education, science and related fields and
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US President George Bush authorises the Export-Import Bank to underwrite US exports to South Africa, officially ending a ban th
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The government announces that prosecutions for offences under the Group Areas Act will cease immediately.
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President Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana vows that the country would never be reunified with SA, because it has not become ind
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Four people, including Jerry Richardson, coach of the Mandela United Football Club, are arrested at the home of Winnie Mandela
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A bomb shatters a crowded bank office in Windhoek, Namibia, killing fourteen people and injuring thirty-one.
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The Ciskei administration declares 19 February a public holiday Heroes’ Day to commemorate the Ciskei Defence Force’s repulsion
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President Lennox Sebe of the Ciskei escapes an assassination attempt by elements in the Transkei Defence Force in an attempted
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The Minister of Justice, Kobie Coetsee, announces that the most comprehensive and intensive investigation is being carried out
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Eastern Province Herald reports that for the first time in SA police history three Black policemen were promoted to the rank of
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