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The United States declares that the Carter Administration will be re-examining its relations with the South African government.
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The Foreign Minister hands over a seventy-six room presidential palace, which cost an estimated R1 .8 m. to build, to Transkei
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Emergency powers are proclaimed by the government of Venda.
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Police jail dozens of government opponents not previously detained, including The World’s editor, Percy Qoboza. Banning orders
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Two newspapers, the World and the Weekend World are banned. This day was later commemorated by journalists country-wide as nati
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Black Solidarity Day.
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KwaZulu: Medium of Instruction and Language Act No 5 commences.
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The Progressive Party decides to fight the election in opposition to the government’s policy of separate development.
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New electoral divisions are defined and plans are open for inspection. 160 electoral divisions are provided for the House of As
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The office of the Minister of Agricultural Economics and Marketing is damaged by an explosion in Pretoria.
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Britain and Egypt sign Suez Canal agreement. British will withdraw troops over next twenty months.
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British troops seize Suez canal zone in a swift dawn raid.
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Sita Gandhi, her mother Sushila and father Manilal stage a sit-in in the ‘whites only" reading room, defying the segregati
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Discovery of sea-shells in Algeria proves that the Sahara was once partially submerged.
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Elsabé Antoinette Murray Steytler (Elsa Joubert), SA author and winner of several awards, is born in Paarl, CP.
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Erik Holm, professor of entomology at the University of Pretoria and expert in archaeology, is born in Bethulie, OFS.
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Herman Arnold Ameshoff (45), judge of the ZAR, dies in Paris.
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The first branch of the Suid-Afrikaanse Vrouefederasie (SAVF), a women’s welfare and cultural organisation which comes into bei
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The Turkish-Egyptian fleet is conquered by the Anglo-French-Russian armada at Navarino.
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Col. George Sackville Fraser, after whom Fraser’s Camp, military outpost established by the British during the frontier war of
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The first Dutch Reformed Church in Stellenbosch is consecrated.
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Cattle-herd David Jansz is murdered at the Cape by a group of Strandlopers (a Khoi-Khoi tribe), led by interpreter Herry who t
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Press Freedom Day.
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South African cellular phone company MTN will announce a $12-million sponsorship of African soccer’s major events at a news con
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Low turnout in parliamentary elections in Swaziland.
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Four Osama bin Laden followers convicted in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa are sentenced in New York to life w
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Health officials launch an intensive effort to find the origins of an outbreak of Ebola fever in Uganda.
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Fighting between Nigeria’s Hausa and Yoruba tribes leaves 100 dead in Lagos. (2004). Yesterdays, Pretoria News, 18 October.
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President Thabo Mbeki pays a state visit to Rwanda.
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