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The Dutch East India Company receives the monopoly to trade with countries between the Cape of Good Hope and the Strait of Mage
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International Earth Day. Celebrated since 1970 on 20 or 21 March.
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This year’s 46664 concert, named after Mandela’s prison number under apartheid, highlights the plight of women and girls, who a
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Mukesh Kapila, UN top official in Sudan, issues the strongest international warning yet about the conflict in the country’s wes
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The US launches an attack against Iraq after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s deadline for exile expires.
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Libya agrees to hand over the two Lockerbie suspects by 6 April 1999. The date is confirmed in a letter to the UN Secretary-Gen
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Makhaya Ntini becomes the first Black SA cricket player to play in a five-day test. He takes 2 wickets in Cape Town.
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The Denel group and Aerospatiale of France sign an agreement to broaden co-operation in various fields, notably helicopters and
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Robert Mugabe wins another six-year term as president of Zimbabwe after crushing his two opponents in the country’s presidentia
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President Mandela’s thirteen-year marriage to Winnie Mandela is formally ended when a Rand Supreme Court judge grants his petit
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Zandra Mitchley, her son, Shaun, and his friend, Clare Silberbauer, are murdered in Eikenhof, near Johannesburg. Three ANC acti
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Ditau Molefyane, junior lightweight champion of SA wins the World Boxing Federation (WBF) title.
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Willie Hepburn sets a South African land speed record when he streaks to 372,401 km/h in a 7-litre Pontiac TransAm on the N3 to
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Israel’s 10-member "inner cabinet" halts all military deals with South Africa.
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Fifteen English cricket players are prohibited to play for three years in England, because of their rebel tour to SA.
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The president of the Republic of Congo, Marien Ngouabi, is assassinated at his official residence in Brazzaville.
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Stuart Cloete (78), author of Rags of Glory and Wheels, dies in Johannesburg.
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Rhodesia’s constitutional talks collapse.
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The South African government announces that self-governing status is to be granted to the Caprivi region of South West Africa (
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The first elections of twenty members of the Legislative Assembly (19-21 March) start in Qwaqwa.
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The second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in thirty-one of the Council’s forty elective seats
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The Narcotics Bureau of the SA Police is founded.
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Prime Minister Vorster says that his government is prepared to engage in dialogue, without preconditions, with other African co
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Algeria demands that France negotiate on ending nuclear testing in Algerian Sahara.
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Relative calm returns to Algeria after cease-fire, ending seven years of warfare between French and Algerian Nationalists.
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Lt.-Col. Hermanus Christiaan (Manie) Bredell, chief adjunct commissioner of the SA Police, dies on his farm Zonneheuwel, near M
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The publishing company, Afrikaanse Pers Beperk, is established in Pretoria.
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Jack Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA medal for outstanding service is named, dies in Pretoria.
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Thomas Thornton becomes the first air passenger in SA when he pays Albert Kimmerling £100 for a short flight from Sydenham Hil
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