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Bobby Hendricks (63), SA saxophone player, dies in Cape Town.
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Johan Botha wins the 800 m in Japan and becomes SA’s first indoor world champion.
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Louis Koch (64), director-general of National Housing until 1994, dies in Cape Town.
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Frans Erasmus (38), Springbok prop of Eastern Province, is killed in a car accident, 100 m from the place where his wife was ki
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Both the DP and the PAC decline President Mandela’s offer to join the Government of National Unity. The degree of opposition al
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A foreign ministry statement issued in Pretoria, blames ‘developments in Angola’ for the indefinite postponement of President M
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Multinational African army installs new government in Liberia.
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Angola says its troops have withdrawn from Huambo after two months of fighting with rebels that left 10,000 dead.
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The SADF’s Battalion 31, composed primarily of the San (Bushmen) battalion who fought in the war in Namibia and has lately been
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Violence erupts when 75 000 people march to the Katlehong Town Council offices, protesting against high rent and electricity ra
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Violence erupts when 50 000 (or 100 000 according to police) residents from GaRankuwa, Mabopane, Soshanguve and areas in the Od
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During a week-long meeting in Vereeniging by branches of the family of Dutch Reformed Churches, members of the White Nederduits
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The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the ANC issue a joi
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The State of Emergency imposed on 21 July 1985, is lifted.
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The Commission of Inquiry into the constitutional, political, economic and social development of Natal/KwaZulu, set up by Chief
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Six Front Line States meet in Maputo and decide to coordinate further their military and economic policies to counter South Afr
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Saudi Arabia announces it will give one billion dollars in aid to Africa.
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The Defence Amendment Bill, first published on 31 January 1977, becomes law. Under it the State President is empowered to invok
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The Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, Dr Albert Hertzog, confirms that the government’s policy regarding television is unchange
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Job Masego, WW2 veteran who sunk a German supply boat while a prisoner of war after the capture of Tobruk, dies in Springs, Tvl
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A bus boycott is staged in Atteridgeville, Pretoria.
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WWII: British troops invade Italian-occupied Abyssinia, now Ethiopia.
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Hannes Harrs, S.A sculptor, is born in Eckernförde, Germany.
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Director Zola Maseko becomes the first South African to win the top prize at Africa’s premier film festival for “Drum”, a film
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The Nigerian Immigration Service rescues sixty-two victims of human trafficking at Seme at the country’s border with Benin Repu
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The western wing of Munitoria burns down and 5 000 municipal workers are requested by authorities to stay away from work the ne
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President Mandela undergoes three days (5-7 March) of intensive medical checks to counter rumours concerning the state of his h
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President Mandela is reported to have held talks with Mr. Jonas Savimbi, President of the National Union for the Total Independ
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Pierre-Claver Rwangabo, the governor of Rwanda’s southern province Butare, is assassinated in an ambush. The prime minister bla
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