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It is reported that about 15,000 students have returned to secondary schools in Soweto and that thirty-two of the forty state-r
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South Africa is informed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that it may not re-apply to join the world sporting body.
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Steven Biko, former SASO leader, released on 30 November 1976 after temporary detention under security laws, is re-arrested.
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The Inkatha National Cultural Liberation Movement is founded at KwaNzimela, in northern KwaZulu. Inkatha emerged, along with th
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Black Laws Amendment Act No 7, designed to speed up the planning for partial consolidation of homelands, commences.
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The banning orders on NUSAS leaders are discussed by the Principals of four English language universities with the Prime Minist
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SA signs a treaty with Malawi on air transport.
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Sam Nujoma, Swapo leader, is deported from South West Africa to Zambia.
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An anti-apartheid demonstration is held on Trafalgar Square, London, to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre.
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The 1964-65 Budget provides for R210m on defence, an increase of R52m over the previous year. The Minister of Defence, Dr. Dong
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A special interim report by Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, commissioner at the Paarl riot inquiry, urges swift government action to br
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African Explosives and Chemical Industries (AECI) is founded.
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John Beaver Marks, teacher, trade unionist and political activist, who identified himself as an African though he was of Colour
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A British missionary, Canon Farmer, accuses Gen. Smuts of having committed an atrocity against members of his flock at Modderfo
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Anglo-Boer War 2 Poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling, summoned from Cape Town by Lord Roberts, arrives in Bloemfontein to join th
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The Vrouesendingbond (Women Mission Society) of the Dutch Reformed Church is founded in Wellington.
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The of National HIV prevalence survey is released at Public Sector Ante-natal clinics.
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The Forest Industries Education and Training Authority (FIETA) is established. Its function is to run leadership programmes and
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair thanks President Nelson Mandela by telephone for his help in persuading Libya to hand over two sus
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The African People’s Liberation Army (APLA), armed section of the PAC, is disbanded in the Umtata stadium by Dr Stanley Mogoba.
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V.S. Pritchett, short-story writer and critic, dies at the age of 96.
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A hearing to decide the financial settlement between President Mandela and Winnie Mandela is held at which the President testif
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Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain addresses the South African Parliament.
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Gerard Sekoto (80), SA artist who left SA for Paris in 1947, dies.
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Finance Minister Barend du Plessis presents a budget offering a large tax incentive to business, with emphasis directed to the
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Nicholas (Boikie) Thlapi disappears after allegedly been taken into police custody at a roadblock at Stilfontein on his way fro
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Dr. Allan Boesak, President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, is exonerated by his church for having had an extra-mar
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A powerful bomb at 2:05 am destroys the cells behind the Langa Commissioner’s Court in Cape Town where thousands of pass law of
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The Conservative Party is founded in the Skilpadsaal in Pretoria with Dr Andries Treurnicht as leader. It brings together, in a
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