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Sir William Owen Lanyon is sworn in as administrator of the Transvaal.
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South African sculptor Anton Anreith dies at the age of sixty-eight in Cape Town.
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The plight of an indigenous community in South Africa, the San, is placed in the spotlight with the launch of a report by the S
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Angered by the way President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced to flee his country, the 15-nation Caribbean Community says it w
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At least fourteen children have contracted HIV in SA hospitals and researchers say it should be a ‘wake-up’ call for the under-
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US officials announce the arrests of three members of Rwanda’s ethnic Hutu rebel movement for the 1999 murders of two American
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A nationwide strike shuts down most of Zimbabwe’s economy and the government threatens to punish those who encouraged the prote
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President Mandela visits Mali for two days. South Africa and Mali agree to establish diplomatic relations.
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Split looms for CP Cape Town as the Conservative Party is so racked by internal dissent that it could see a breakaway right-win
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An American soldier is killed by a land mine in Somalia and a second dies in a truck crash, bringing to six the number of Ameri
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Twenty-four people are killed in Meadowlands during an IFP take-over of the Mzimhlope hostel.
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It is announced at a Convention (2-3 March) that the United Democratic Front is to end its activities and will formally disband
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The SACP is formally launched in Natal at a rally held at Currie’s Fountain Stadium in Durban.
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Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) chief-of-staff Chris Hani says as long as the SADF continues recruitment and training, his organisation
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State President P.W. Botha confirms that he intends completing his full term of office as state president when he returns after
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The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month,
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South Africa’s envoy to the United Nations, Les Manley, storms out of a Security Council meeting after accusing the council of
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UK students start a campaign to force British universities and colleges to divest up to R650m in South Africa.
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Norton, the giant US abrasives firm, sells off its South African subsidiary to local interests.
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The Pietersburg City Council reverses an earlier decision and desegregates the town’s only cinema.
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Seven Blacks are killed in a police ambush on alleged ANC guerrillas in Guguleto, Western Cape.
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A large cache of arms is discovered in a township near Springs, east of Johannesburg. Together with the buried arms are bundles
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US government under President Gerald Ford discloses that it has decided to sell weapons to Egypt.
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President Samora Machel of Mozambique closes his frontier with Rhodesia, seizes all Rhodesian assets in the country and places
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SA signs multilateral treaty on international trade in endangered species of wild flora and fauna.
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Todd Tozama Matshikiza, SA musician, composer and writer, dies in Lusaka, Zambia. He composed the music and wrote some of the l
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The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) delegation meets Mahatma Gandhi in Poona.
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Saambou (Permanente) Bouvereniging, a landmark in the economic history of the Afrikaner, is founded.
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A ‘timeless’ cricket test match (the only one ever) between SA and England starts in Durban and continues until the 14th. E
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