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Republic of Bophuthatswana Constitution Further Amendment Act No 21, providing for the detention of individuals ‘in the interes
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The government gives official notice that it has refused to allow the Herstigte Nasionale Party to be registered as a political
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Paramount Chief Stella Sigcau of Transkei tells the Assembly that legislation is to be introduced making it a capital offence t
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The United States declines to recognise the Republic of Rhodesia and closes its consulate in Salisbury.
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Lt Gen. Moneim Riad, chief of staff of Egypt’s armed forces, is killed during Israeli-Egyptian gun battle across Suez Canal.
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£100 000 worth of gold that went missing on the Cape Town Castle, is found near the ship’s engine room in Durban.
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The United Nations Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid resumes its meetings and decides to draft an appeal to the Se
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Sisulu is released on R6 000 bail.
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A rusty 1.4kg shell, dating back to 1901, explodes in the playground of a Johannesburg school, injuring more than thirty childr
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Representatives of the African National Congress (ANC), Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) meet in
Representatives of the African National Congress (ANC), Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) meet in Johannesburg. The Presidents of…
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Lt Tommy Rose covers the distance between South Africa and England in six days, six hours and fifty-seven minutes in a record f
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Michal Grobbelaar, SA actor and arts administrator, is born.
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General Jan Smuts declares martial law in the Transvaal after mobilising the active citizen force in a bid to quell the dispute
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Britain deports Egyptian independence leader Saad Zaghlul to Malta. Britain grants Egypt nominal independence in 1922.
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President Paul Kruger urges closer union of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State. A treaty of alliance follows.
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The French Foreign Legion is founded in Algeria to serve in the French colonies in Africa.
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Five rebels of the Slachter’s Nek Rebellion, Cornelius Faber, Hendrik Prinsloo, Theunis de Klerk, and brothers Stefanus and Abr
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South African Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and his counterparts from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) regio
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The 80,000 striking truck drivers and their employers reached an agreement "in principle" about the workers’ wages du
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Fifteen suspected mercenaries are arrested in Equatorial Guinea, including the alleged leader of the advance party, Nick du Toi
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Roman Herzog, President of Germany, visits SA.
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SA signs agreement for air services with Japan.
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A two day long unrest of large scale attacks and counter attacks in which forty-five people are killed, starts in Alexandra, PW
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Five people die in a panga fight in Katlehong, thought to be related to the ongoing taxi violence.
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Britain and the United States veto a draft resolution in the United Nations Security Council, following the banning of organisa
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Outspoken Kenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia (82), a friend and later rival of the country’s founding president Jomo Kenyat
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Mozambique’s former president Joaquim Chissano, who steered his country for eighteen years after helping end a long and brutal
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Following a statement issued by the ANC earlier the day, the Tshwane City Council votes to retain the name, Pretoria, for the c
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”The City of Pretoria no longer exists”, a spokesman for the African National Congress’s Tshwane region says in a statement iss
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