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Awards for Consumer Champions.
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Rebels led by ousted army chief General Francois Bozize capture the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, and the interna
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The national department of transport launches the seven month Be Legal campaign at the Jack Mincer Taxi Rank in Johannesburg,
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Zairian rebels take control of Kisangani, the last government stronghold in the east and Zaire’s third largest city.
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The first provisional constitution is unanimously adopted by the KwaZulu-Natal legislature.
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African National Congress president Nelson Mandela addresses a freedom rally in Mmabatho, Bophuthatswana, a week after the nomi
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Major cabinet portfolio changes are made to co-ordinate economic policy and constitutional negotiations.
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Business Day reports that in the wake of a decision by the Student Representative Council (SRC) of the University of Pretoria n
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Angola releases the bodies of two SA Defence Force commandos killed in a raid on Cabinda oil depots in 1985, and the SADF repat
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Internal Security Amendment Act No 2, amending the 1979 Internal Security Act (RRS 1988/89: 58), commences.
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SAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail at the end of April.
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Evidence of the government’s complicity in the abortive coup plot against the Seychelles’ Socialist government, is taken in cam
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The Prime Minister states that those who disagree with the government’s 12-point strategy, accepted by all four National Party
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Dr. Rhoodie reiterates that he possesses documentary evidence of secret projects involving the transfer of funds to major polit
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Four people, believed to be members of the ANC, are arrested in Gaborone, Botswana, and charged with the illegal possession of
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A Durban magistrate rules that no one is to blame for the death of a young Indian dentist, Dr. Hoosen Haffejee, who died in pol
EventPercy Montgomery, Springbok rugby player of the Western Province, is born.
Percival Colin Montgomery was born in Walvis Bay, Windhoek (now known as Namibia). He is a retired Springbok and Rugby Union player. Montgomery became the…
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Two Bills conferring wide new security powers on the government are passed by Parliament. The Affected Organisations Act is int
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The creation of a community of separate and sovereign states is laid down as the official policy of the National Party in its e
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The astronomical observatory at Sutherland in the Karoo is opened.
The astronomical observatory at Sutherland in the Karoo is opened.
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The Defence Minister, J.J. Fouché, gives the Senate details of South Africa’s defence programme and replies to statement
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Deon Opperman, South African dramatist, is born.
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Following strong opposition in the Conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, Dr. Verwoerd announces the withdrawal of South A
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The South African Indian Organisation is formed at a conference in Durban.
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The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Bill is introduced in House of Assembly
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Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of SA’s greatest working-class martyrs, is arrested
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The artillery bombards the strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square during the Rand Revolt and it falls to the government. Befo
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Lord Alfred Milner lays the foundation stone of the Presbyterian Church St. Andrew in Germiston.
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Lord Selborne (William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selbourne) is appointed High Commissioner for South Africa in succession
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