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National Security Amendment Act No 35, empowering police officers to detain and interrogate persons suspected of having committ
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Prime Minister P.W. Botha decides to invite leaders of the Black ‘homelands’ to join in a discussion on a ‘statement of intent’
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The Prime Minister states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978.
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The first postgraduate students enrol for the museuology diploma at the University of Pretoria.
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Henrietta Georgina (Netta) Kirk, cheese maker, factory manager and technical supervisor in the cheese-making industry, dies on
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Prof. Charles Frederick Saint (86), the first professor in surgery at the medical school in Cape Town, dies in Sark, Channel Is
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The Department of Bantu Development is planning for the consolidation of the ‘homelands’ by buying land in terms of the 1936 legislation
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The International Olympics Committee (IOC) decides to re-admit South Africa to the Olympic Games. The government has made five
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Suppression of Communism Further Amendment Bill is approved by 106 votes to forty at its third reading. It is made retrospectiv
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The governing body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) meeting in Geneva, votes in favour of suspending South Africa
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British Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod’s constitutional plan is accepted by the Kenyan conference.
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Emperor Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari) announces that Abyssinia wants peace with its neighbours. (Haile Selassie means "Power
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Father Frans Claerhout, SA painter, is born.
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Charles William Engelhard, chairman of Rand Mines and director of Anglo American, is born in New York.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: Gen. French relieves Kimberley after a siege of 123 days. The town has suffered only 134 casualties among a
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Anglo-Boer War 2: The British threaten to use natives in the Boer War fight.
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Mafeking is established within close proximity of Barolong Boo Ratshidi capital, Ga-Ratshidi.
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Alfred Beit, friend of Cecil John Rhodes, co-founder of the De Beers Mining Company and co-founder of Southern Rhodesia, is bor
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Regulations are proclaimed for the layout of a third Voortrekker town, the first in Natal, named after Piet Retief and Gerrit M
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Jacobus Hendrik Hatting, fighter at the battle of Blood River and author of an early history of the Voortrekkers, is born.
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The Political Council decides to erect more churches in the Cape because most people have to travel three days to attend church
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Jacob Matlala, SA boxer, wins the World Boxing Union (WBU) title.
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Tony Johnstone of Zimbabwe wins the Alfred Dunhill PGA golf tournament in Houghton, Johannesburg.
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Following violent student protests in Cape Town on 16 February, President Mandela warns in Parliament that he will not tolerate
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It is announced that the IEC has hired 10,300 observers to monitor the first democratic election in April.
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South Africa signs an agreement with Namibia relating to defence and civil aviation in Walvis Bay and signs a bilateral air ser
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In a first-phase report, the Commonwealth Observer Mission to South Africa (COMSA) concludes that this country was "one of
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Azanian People’s Liberation Army kills three policemen in Kathlehong violence, when their vehicle is attacked.
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The Commonwealth Committee on Southern Africa decides to maintain sanctions until promises of reform in South Africa are carrie
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