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The United Nations General Assembly Credentials Committee rejects the credentials of the South African delegation, by six votes
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The United Party suffers reverses in municipal elections in the Transvaal and fails to contest the Randburg seats because of in
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Terrorist bombing of a bus in Nairobi, Kenya, kills twenty-seven people and injures about 100.
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André Snyman, Springbok rugby player, is born.
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It is announced in Johannesburg that restriction orders have been issued against six leaders of the South African Students’ Org
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Charles W. Engelhard (54), millionaire businessman and chairperson of Rand Mines, dies in Florida, USA.
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Rhodesia declares itself a republic and becomes the Republic of Rhodesia (not recognised internationally).
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Kwame Nkrumah, first prime minister and later president of Ghana, is welcomed in Guinea who grants him a honourable asylum af
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First meeting of the Special Committee on the Policies of Apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa (later re
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The Bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves, resigns after having been deported from South Africa in September 1960 for his stro
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South Africa Act Amendment Act No 9: Effectively revalidates the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act, which has been cha
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France recognises the independence of Morocco.
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Egypt and Syria sign a defensive alliance.
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Two pilots of the SA Air Force’s Cheetah Squadron, Lieutenant D.A. Ruiter and Captain W.J.J. Badenhorst, are killed in action w
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Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, politician and former leader of the Progressive Federal Party, is born in Pretoria.
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The SAA undertake its first flight between Cape Town and Durban.
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The first issue of the weekly periodical ‘TIME’ appeared on newsstands.
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Anglo-Boer War 2: A council of war at Poplar Grove, OFS, gives Danie Theron permission to form a Scout Corps consisting of abou
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Sir John Coode (75), planner of a seaward defence for Table Bay, which was built by prisoners, dies in Brighton, England.
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A Legislative Council is established in Natal.
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Sir Joseph Baynes, SA Minister of Land and Works, is born in Settle, Yorkshire, England.
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The first slave, Abraham, a stowaway from Batavia, arrives in Table Bay aboard the Malacca. He is made to work for the company
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The first return fleet from Batavia to receive fresh produce on its way to the Netherlands arrives in Table Bay. Van Riebeeck s
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A Dutch fleet under Cornelis Houtman sights the Cape while on a voyage to the East.
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Blood flows in the streets of Johannesburg as striking truck drivers turn violently on other truckers on the first day of a pay
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Exiled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide claims he was forced to leave Haiti by US military forces. He is currently resi
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-described planner and organiser of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New Y
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Cricketer Daryll Cullinan sets the highest Test score by a South African batsman, scoring 275 not out against New Zealand in Au
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Rwandan Hutu rebels, claiming they oppose American and British support of the Tutsi government in Rwanda, abduct eight foreign
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